An Experimental Study on Transfer of Cultural Connotation of Vocabulary/Une Etude Experimentale Sur Le Transfert de Connotation Culturelle de Vocabulaire (Report‪)‬

1. INTRODUCTION In L2 learning, L1 is a central factor affecting L2 learners' interlanguage development. Findings concerning the L1 transfer to L2 are very controversial and inconsistent. In recent years, there has been an agreement that language transfer is not only a common phenomenon in L2 learning but also involves cultural factors, such as thought patterns, cultural values, customs and habits. Language transfer is regarded not as a mechanical transference of first language structure, but as a cognitively complex mechanism involving many factors. It is important that some cultural factors be taken into the study of language transfer with the development of pragmatics and intercultural communication. And individual differences are also taken into consideration with the development of sociolinguistics.