Trakia Journal of Sciences, Vol. 8, Suppl

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Trakia Journal of Sciences, Vol. 8, Suppl. 3,

 

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Trakia Journal of Sciences, Vol. 8, Suppl. 3, pp 320-324, 2010 

Copyright © 2009 Trakia University 

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        ISSN 1313-7069 (print) 

                                                                  ISSN 1313-3551 (online) 

 

                             

LANGUAGE INTERFERENCE AND METHODS OF ITS OVERCOMING IN 

FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING 

 

B. Lekova* 

 

Faculty of Education, Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, 

 

ABSTRACT 

This scientific article focuses on the theoretical grounding in language interference by means of 

studying the relation between bilingualism and interference. Consecutively, the article considers the 

variety of language interference with its typical influence on French language learning by students. 

Special attention is paid to contrastive analysis and error analysis - the basic ways for overcoming 

interference mistakes. A body of preliminary measures is presented, as well as corrective strategies 

for dealing with interference in studying foreign languages with the aim of improving the quality of 

language knowledge and its transformation into language competence. 

 

Key words: language interference, bilingualism, interference mistakes, system, norm, contrastive 

analysis, error analysis.