Download or read book Approaching Language Transfer Through Text Classification written by Scott Jarvis and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2012 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explains the detection-based approach to investigating crosslinguistic influence and illustrates the value of the approach through a collection of five empirica studies that use the approach to quantify, evaluate, and isolate the influences of learners' native-language backgrounds on their English writing.