Interlinguale fouten van Kroatische studenten met een gevorderde kennis van het Duits bij het leren van Nederlands

This paper investigates interlingual errors in competent speakers of German who are learning Dutch, analyzing errors in phonetic-phonological, orthographic, morphological, syntactic and lexical-semantic terms. Interlingual errors are defined as incorrect translations from a previously acquired language into the target language. The study involved five participants who were current or former students of German and Dutch at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb. On the basis of three language tasks, the participants demonstrated pronunciation and spelling errors as well as errors in morphology, syntax and lexis that reveal clear cases of negative transfer from German into Dutch.