Why do English Language learners borrow collocations from the Arabic language (their first language)? Talk about L1 transfer and borrowing in general and in the case of Arabic learners of the English language in specific.
Description One source of errors second language learners make is first language transfer (L1 transfer). Students tend to borrow from the first language when they are unaware or do not know the equivalent of the words they want to use. Talk about collocations L1 transfer (borrowing multi-word units from the first language) in the case […]