Abstract

BOTERO-RESTREPO, Margarita Alexandra; GARCIA-BOTERO, Jacqueline  and  GARCIA-BOTERO, Gustavo. The Linguistic Influence of Spanish and French when Learning English. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2018, n.75, pp.243-261. ISSN 0120-3916.

This article aims at reporting the results of a quantitative investigation about the linguistic influence of Spanish-French in the learning of English, in consecutive bilinguals of an early immersion French program. The results of this study show that Spanish and French have an influence in the learning of English; on the one side, the French structure has a positive influence in the English structure due to a positive correlation found between these two languages; in the case of Spanish, it is demonstrated a negative transferdue to the low linguistic repertoire of LE learners.

Keywords : consecutive bilingualism; linguistic influence; quantitative study.

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