Question

One language to another by a bilingual or multilingual speaker:

• A. Language acquisition
• B. Language processing
• C. Language transfer
• D. Language interference

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Language transfer

• Language transfer occurs when a bilingual or multilingual speaker applies linguistic features (such as grammar, pronunciation, or vocabulary) from one language to another.

• This can happen positively (facilitating learning) or negatively (causing errors), depending on the similarity between the languages.