Cognitive factors in learning: transfer, interference and overgeneralization

Negative transfer befalls when previous performance interrupts the performance in a target language. In other words, first language causes as sources of errors when learners inadequately apply certain language items or structures that are not identical in both languages. It falls into two big types as interference and overgeneralization.

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  Negative transfer befalls when previous performance interrupts the performance in a target language. In other words, first language causes as sources of errors when learners inadequately apply certain language items or structures that are not identical in both languages. It falls into two big types as interference and overgeneralization.
  

Negative transfer