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Transfer phenomena..My first approach to tha written text. I reminisce about when I was in school, I always preferred the English class, I loved it. For this reason I have passed almost all my life trying to study and understand English and my own language Spanish. In fact, I do not only the grammar and its language system but also its culture. I love learning and research all related to the process of acquisition from mother language toward second or foreign languages. My focus is in the Interlanguage process where the second language is developed and constituted. Learners tend to build the system of the second language on the first. Therefore, an interesting process occurs called "transfer" or "cross-linguistic influence". This is an exceptional process because learners create different strategies for its learning. It is for example, when they turn to a literal translation, namely using the same structure of the sentence of their own first language that end up being different in the target language. It is common to find a literal translation of English to Spanish like "cuando una palabra mira semejante a " in this sentence can see the word "mira" is a literal translation of “look”. But "parecer" is better than "mirar" since this last refers to looking at an object. Even in this same text in which I am writing there are many structures and words it come of my first language Spanish. In my case, I realise that I always put the article "the", that is no necessary at to use in English, in Spanish almost is used to referring to names of specific places or things. Well… I wanted to share with you this first approach to the practice in writing English text. Thanks, if you can correct my errors and comment about this topic I will express my gratitude to you, since this is my topic of my PhD thesis. In the next written text I will explain more about other errors and structures that come of transfer phenomena.

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I reminisce about when I was in school, I have always preferred English class, I loved it. For this reason I have passed almost all my life trying to study and understand English and my own language Spanish. In fact, I do not only love the grammar and its language system but also its culture. I love learning and research all related to the process of acquisition from mother language toward second or foreign languages. My focus is in the Interlanguage process where the second language is developed and constituted. Learners tend to build the system of the second language on the first. Therefore, an interesting process occurs called "transfer" or "cross-linguistic influence".

This is an exceptional process because learners create different strategies for its learning. It is for example, when they turn to a literal translation, namely using the same structure of the sentence of their own first language that end up being different in the target language.

It is common to find a literal translation of English to Spanish like "cuando una palabra mira semejante a “in this sentence we can see the word "mira" is a literal translation of “look”. But "parecer" is better than "mirar" since this last refers to looking at an object.
Even in this same text in which I am writing there are many structures and words it has in common with my first language Spanish. In my case, I realise that I always put the article "the", that is not necessary to use in English, in Spanish almost is used to referring to names of specific places or things.

Well… I wanted to share with you my first approach to practicing writing English text. Thanks, if you can correct my errors and comment about this topic I will express my gratitude to you, since this is my topic of my PhD thesis. In my next written text I will explain more about other errors and structures that come of transfer phenomena.

 

this was really well written not many corrections were required here. :)

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