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The Acquisition Of Spanish Pronunciation By Welsh Learners: Transfer From A Regional Variety Of English Into Spanish, Alfredo Herrero De Haro
The Acquisition Of Spanish Pronunciation By Welsh Learners: Transfer From A Regional Variety Of English Into Spanish, Alfredo Herrero De Haro
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Language teachers agree that the phonetic/phonological distance between a learner’s L1 and L2 is of vital importance in mastering the sounds of the L2; however, no attention is given to the phonetic/phonological distance between the regional variety of the speaker’s L1 and the L2. After comparing linguistic peculiarities of English, and of Welsh English in particular, with Castilian Spanish, the author proceeds to study the interlanguage of advanced students of Spanish from Wales. This helps to explain positive and negative transfer from this variety of English into Spanish and assists in producing a catalogue of the interferences to be corrected. …