L3 Acquisition of Simple and Present Progressive Tenses by Iranian EFL Learners

This study sought to investigate the role of transfer at the initial states of the third language (L3) acquisition. The following hypotheses were investigated in this study: (a) the second language transfer hypothesis (“L2 Status Factor”) proposing that L2 impedes transfer from L1 into L3; (b) the C...

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Main Authors: Ali Akbar Jabbari, Hemrah Salimi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-11-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244015615163

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