The influence of typological differences on L2 underuse, misuse, and overuse of errors A response to Jennifer J. Chen’s “The development of an interlanguage: An analysis of a Chinese student’s English writing” (Vol. 3, No. 1, January 2016)

Abstract

With a view to complementing the meaningful work of Chen (2016), the present commentary intends
to show that interlingual errors may arise not only in the domain of morphosyntax, but also in the
interfaces between different linguistic domains such as morphosyntax, semantics, and pragmatics. It
should be noted as well that, according to L2 research (e.g., Sorace, 2005), interlingual errors concerning
the interfaces tend to be more challenging to learn, and thus require more intricate pedagogical attention.