Download Full Book In the literature, most of the work on cross-linguistic influence has focused on the effects of the first language (hereafter the L1) on the second language (hereafter the L2), but there is so little research which specifically focuses on the effects of the L2 on the L1. In fact, the first book on this subject -Effects of the Second Language on the First- (edited by Cook, 2003) came out in 2003 which is so recent. This suggests that this area needs much mor