An Interlanguage consists of L1 and L2 components, including a wide variety of psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and other cultural aspects of source and target languages. In view of the Creative Construction Continumm, the interim or the learner's ta...
An Interlanguage consists of L1 and L2 components, including a wide variety of psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and other cultural aspects of source and target languages. In view of the Creative Construction Continumm, the interim or the learner's target language system manifests a wide rage of strategic devices caused by the users' desire to overcome their lack of TL knowledge. In this study, the Korean English learners were chosen as the subjects to be tested on their employment of IL production strategies.
The analyses were made on the basis of the categorical classification of strategic responses from the subjects who were given both several concrete and abstract concepts. The linguistic categorical classification suggested by the author are as follows:
ER(Expected Reponses) = COR(Communicative Responses) + AV(Avoidance)
COR = CR(Correct responses) + IL SR( Strategic Responses)
IL SR = L1 SR + L2 SR
The simple paradigm proved effective in sorting the responses, especially those based on the IL linguistic knowlege as expected. The analysis revealed that L1 SR's roughly encompass (1) referential and conceptional transfers (2) functional transfer (3) semem order transfer and (4) breach of register, where as L2 SR's mostly include (1) substitutions (2) generalization (3) descriptions and (4) word coinage. The proposed cetegorical paradigm suffers limitation in that it can not be easily applied to the analyses of other important strategic aspects such as psychological and cultural-oriented strategic phenomena.