Social Factors, Interlanguage, and Language Learning.

The field of second language learning is shown to encompass the study of interlanguage phenomena, which reflect the conditions under which language is learned and used. These include the processes of language transfer, transfer of training, strategies of learning, strategies of communication, and overgeneralization. Five different contexts for language learning are considered and the results of language learning in each context related to the social context for learning through the notion of interlanguage.