LIMBA ROMÂNĂ FOLOSITĂ ÎN SCRIS DE CĂTRE ELEVI MAGHIARI
ROMANIAN LANGUAGE USED IN WRITING BY HUNGARIAN PUPILS

Author(s): Emilia Kelemen
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: interlanguage; fossilization; interference;
Summary/Abstract: Starting from the concept and theory of interlanguage proposed by Selinker (1972), this paper presents the use of the Romanian language by native Hungarian speakers living in intermediary spaces and spaces of transition between the two languages. Focusing on the production of written texts through the observation of papers written in Romanian by Hungarian high school students, this study highlights the specifics of interlanguage by emphasizing the most common irregularities/deviations from the Romanian language norms. Many of the identified tendencies are due to the phenomenon of interference, partly because a certain phenomenon does not exist in Hungarian and partly because some phenomena emerge in a different way in Hungarian, and students use the schemes of their native language. This present study is a preliminary one, as I intend to extend it, following the same subjects over several years to create an image about the trajectory of the fossilized forms. I believe that this study, even in this phase, provides useful information about the learning of a second language and thus can be helpful for teachers of the Romanian language.

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