The influence of Vietnamese on English acquisition and use by the Hanoians

Abstract

    In the academic paper, the author will concentrate on the influence which may appear when a language user is leaming English; when he tries his best to recall and use what he has previously learnt; and when he makes an effort to construct a compound word or an expression that has not been learnt as a unit of information for authentic communication. As a learning process, language transfer supports the learner's selection and remodelUng of language input as he progresses in the development of his interlanguage knowledge. As a production process, language transfer is involved in the learner's retrieval of the knowledge and in his efforts to linguistically bridge those gaps in his knowledge that cannot be sidestepped by avoidance. Thus, it will be useiiil to briefly consider how languages differ in the ways of cross-linguistic influence.