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Educational Factors and Their Relationship to the Occurrence of Negative Pragmatic Transfer



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Senka Majetić

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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2014.09.004

University of Bihać, Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Our knowledge about negative pragmatic transfer is limited in that almost all cited literature under review based their finding claims on the survey of a single speech act. In addition, all the conclusions of comparison and contrasting were not explicit studies of negative pragmatic transfer. The reviewed limited literature so far suggests that (1) related studies have compared or contrasted how non-native speakers differed from native speakers due to their mother-tongue influences in the realization of speech acts in the target language and (2) the related studies attempted to discuss issues pertaining to the identification of differences, typification of the transferred features, conditions of transfer-occurrences, and possible effects of such transfers. The paper is a review of the related literature on transfer studies in second language acquisition, linguistic studies, and non-linguistic studies. We also made a survey about approaches in transfer studies, native speakers’ attitudes toward transfer, and transfers made by Bosnian (BCS) learners of English. It was argued that transfer research evolved from a linguistic-to- non-linguistic path, and there is a necessity in the current trend to shift from the former to the latter.

transfer, linguistic transfer, pragmatic transfer, second language acquisition