False Friends in Learner Corpora ― A Corpus-based Study of English False Friends in the Written and Spoken Production of Spanish Learners

This book is conceived as a contribution to the general understanding of learner language. It presents an innovative approach to the study of English false friends. False friends are a current issue for those learning and working with languages since these lexical items may spring up in different contexts of our everyday life. The book identifies false friends in real samples of learner English, reflects on the difficulty of these words and illustrates the specific problems which should be addressed in the EFL classroom. The ultimate purpose of this book is to cast new light on both the skillful and awkward use of false friends in learner English.

M Luisa Roca-Varela holds a BA in English Language and Literature, an MA in English Linguistics and a PhD (with distinction) from the University of Santiago de Compostela. She was a visiting researcher at the Universities of Birmingham and Swansea. She has published papers in national and international journals and edited a refereed volume entitled Current Research in Applied Linguistics: Issues on Language and Cognition.