Rediscovering Interlanguage

An account of the development of research and thinking in the field of learner language. Draws on wide-ranging research into contrastive analysis, bilingualism, theoretical linguistics and experimental psychology.

Foreword, William E. Rutherford
Acknowledgements
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Introduction: Scope of the study

1. Beginnings: Fries/Lado
2. Towards interlanguage: Uriel Weinreich
3. Units and equivalence across linguistic systems: Some bilingual data
4. Some problems of comparison: The CA literature
5. Some CA and EA ( and possibly IL ) data
6. Theoretical advances: Corder and Van Buren
7. The quintessential CA/IL notion: Language transfer
8. The continual discovery of IL
9. The reality of fossilization: An allegorical account
10. Reframing interlanguage: Where we are

Appendix
References
Index