interlanguage
Noun: 1. A linguistic system created and used by learners of a second language: An "interlanguage" is the unique, developing language system produced by someone who is learning a new language. It is not simply the native language or the target language, but a systematic, rule-governed system in its own right that exists on a continuum between the two. 2. A common language used for communication between speakers of different native languages: In this sense, "interlanguage" functions as a synonym for lingua franca—a shared, often simplified, language used for practical communication between groups who do not share a first language.
- As a learner's developing system:
- The researcher analyzed the interlanguage of Spanish learners to understand their common errors with English articles.
- Her interlanguage shows influence from her native German grammar, but she is gradually incorporating more English structures.
- As a shared communication language:
- English has become the global interlanguage for business and science.
- In the medieval Mediterranean, a simplified form of Italian served as an interlanguage for traders.
- Interlanguage fossilization: A key concept in second language acquisition where certain errors or non-target-like features in a learner's interlanguage become permanent and cease to develop further, despite continued exposure to the target language.
- Example: The persistent misuse of the third-person singular '-s' is a common case of interlanguage fossilization for many learners.
- Interlingual (adjective): Relating to or existing between two or more languages.
- Example: Interlingual errors occur when a learner directly translates structures from their first language.
- Intralanguage (adjective): Existing or occurring within a single language. (This is the direct antonym in linguistic contexts).
- For meaning 1 (learner language): Transitional competence, learner language, approximative system.
- For meaning 2 (shared language): Lingua franca, common language, contact language, koine.
- Interlanguage pragmatics: A subfield of study that examines how second language learners understand and perform speech acts (like requests or apologies) in their interlanguage, and how they acquire pragmatic competence.
- Example: His research focuses on interlanguage pragmatics, specifically how learners express politeness.
(No specific idioms are commonly associated with the technical term "interlanguage.")
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a common language used by speakers of different languages
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Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times
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