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positive transfers

positive transfers is the plural of positive transfer.

Meaning of positive transfer

Noun

positive transfer (usually uncountable, plural positive transfers)

  1. (usually) The successful use by a language learner of a construct from the learner's source language in the target language, such that the resulting utterance in the target language is correct.

Questions about positive transfers

What is positive transfers the plural of?
Positive transfers is the plural of positive transfer.

Words near positive transfers in the dictionary

  1. positive split
  2. positive statement
  3. positive statements
  4. positive thinking
  5. positive transfer
  6. positive transfers
  7. positive transition
  8. positive zero
  9. positive zeroes
  10. positive zeros
  11. positive-definite

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