Review of Transfer Studies in L3 Acquisition and Suggestions for Future Research
Language transfer has long been a heated topic in L2 acquisition.With the research turning from L2 acquisition to L3 and multilingual acquisition in recent years,L3 transfer has accordingly evolved into one of the foci in this field,and therefore a review is needed.This paper first reviews the definition change of language transfer,the four aspects of L3 transfer and factors in L3 transfer,and then against this backdrop,the weaknesses of existing research are discussed and directions for future research are suggested.It is expect-ed to be of help for L3 acquisition research and L3 teaching practice.