Bi-directional Rsearch on Subject-building

This study analyses transfer observed in the interlanguage of Japanese EFL learners, particularly when they are building subjects in English. It was hypothesized that the Japanese characteristics of subject-building, prodrop and double subject influence English sentences made by Japanese EFL learners and Japanese sentences made by native English･ speaking learners of Japanese. The results of the study hint that prodrop did not transfer into the second language but that the Japanese double subject phenomenon may have transferred and have been the reason that both Japanese and British learners made errors in building subjects in their second language.論