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2.2 Language Transfer
The influence of L2 on L1 is firstly considered in the field ofbilingualism, in which most related studies focus on L2 influence on LI inchildhood and simultaneous bilingualism (Haugen 1953; Weinreich 1953;Romaine, 1995). Later on, L2 influence on L1 has also been found inadulthood and documented in the fruitful researches, especially during the1990s. Positive transfer is a transfer which makes learning L2 easier andalways occurs in a condition when the mother tongue (acquired language)and the target language have the similar form. A large number ofcontemporary SLA researches have realized the significance ofcross-linguistic similarity and devote to showing that could promote theprocess of L2 acquisition. Negative transfer, also named linguisticinterference, which is one of the hottest topics among SLAresearchers. Since negative transfer involves obvious branches of norms inthe target language, it is often relatively easy to distinguish. Thus, manyresearchers bend their mind to finding a systematic regulation of transfer inthe process of SLA, they want to exploit the active factor which could usenegative language promoting language learning, and shift it into positivelanguage transfer eventually.
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Chapter Three Methodology........ 29
3.1 Research Design.........29
3.2 Research Procedure....32
3.2.1 Data Collection...........33
3.2.2 Data Analysis.....37
Chapter Four Result and Discussion....39
4.1 Effects of Fostering Lexical Chunk Awareness on Production ofEnglish Phrases........39
4.2 Effects of Fostering Lexical Chunk Awareness on Production ofClausal Chunks........47
4.3 Effects of Fostering Lexical Chunk Awareness on the Production ofDiscourse Organizers....... 51
4.4 Summary............55
Chapter Four Result and Discussion
In this chapter, two sections are included: results and discussion ofthree research questions in the current study. In each section, some necessaryresults will be shown in different forms. And then the possible reasons forthe presented results will be analyzed and discussed.
4.1 Effects of Fostering Lexical Chunk Awareness onProduction of English Phrases
The first experiment is to study the effect of Lexical Approach onSenior High School stude