in·ter·lan·guage

(ĭn′tər-lăng′gwĭj)

1. The type of language produced by nonnative speakers when learning another language.

2. A lingua franca.

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interlanguage - a common language used by speakers of different languages; "Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times"

lingua franca, koine

language, linguistic communication - a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written"

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interlanguage

n → Verkehrssprache f

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The three theories were: Error Analysis (Corder 1967), Interlanguage (Selinker 1972) and the Social Role (Eagly, 1987).

Examination of Boys' and Girls' Spelling Errors of Phonemic Interchange in Kiswahili Functional Writing among Ekegusii Secondary School Learners

The most common interlanguage errors were also considered, such as the interference of the mother tongue.

Analysis of pragmatic items in an ESL online adaptive placement test

L1 often plays a positive role in SLA and may account for much of what is correct in a learner's interlanguage (Swan, 1997).

Addressing the Problem of Negative Lexical Transfer Errors in Chilean University Students: Como abordar el problema de la transferencia negativa de lexico en estudiantes universitarios chilenos

"Symbolic Representation and Attentional Control in Pragmatic Competence." Interlanguage pragmatics.

Come si imparano le formule di saluto in italiano: un'osservazione sul campo

Research in the area of interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) has examined the study abroad (SA) context as a potential environment for second language (L2) learners' pragmatic development--for a recent overview on pragmatic gains from SA, see Xiao (2015).

Learning Pragmatic Routines during Study Abroad: A Focus on Proficiency and Type of Routine/Aprendizaje de rutinas pragmaticas durante programas de estudios en el extranjero: nivel de ingles y tipo de rutina

This volume contains nine essays on the acquisition of Romance languages in different contexts, both first and second languages and including Greek, Portuguese, French, Romanian, Persian, Italian, and Spanish, and grammatical issues like quantificational expressions, the representation of consonant clusters in the interlanguage of speakers of different languages, typical morphological issues, and issues related to the mental lexicon.

Acquisition of Romance Languages: Old Acquisition Challenges and New Explanations From a Generative Perspective

Communication strategies, foreign talk, and repair in interlanguage. Language Learning 30(2), 417-431

A dynamic perspective of intercultural difficulty management

215) gave the concept of fossilization in his seminal article on interlanguage. Fossils have variously been defined but to satisfy the needs of the current study the concept of 'half concept' or 'distorted concepts' is sufficient.

Fossilization in the Learning of the Present Simple Tense