Interlanguage

Interlanguage

1. The individual mental grammar of each language learner of a second or foreign

   • It is the individual mental grammar representation of a learne
   • Learners are involved in a continual process of hypothesis formulation and testing

2. Predictable path

   • Interlanguage draws from the thought that psychological structures within the learner’s mind constrain the development of the target language
   • It is defined in an a priori manner by the learner’s current level of processing
   • Interlanguage structures are in vain if the the learner is not yet developmentally ready to process the target-like structure

3. Overgeneralisation

   • They are a typical feature of interlanguage and its development
   • it refers to the phenomenon that language learners who have acquired a certain grammar rule
   • Its acquisition in natural or instructed settings and foreign the language will be explained.

4. Samanta Vozmediano