By Phonetics, Word order

As a native English speaker (well perhaps not entirely native, I was born in Russia and immigrated to the U.S. at the tender age of 7) I would have to say that apart from the obviously difficult aspects of the English language such as tenses, an unorthodox phonetic system employed in the language...

Hi, Thus it explained spelling, grammar, phonetics, and usage much more extensively than would a dictionary for native English speakers.Do you think the above sentence is correct? Should it be written as:Thus it explained...than a dictionary for native English speakers would? It's fine....

The basic problem is 'interference'. This is what we bring from L1 to the L2 situation. It can be word order, vocabulary, misuse of cognates, phonetics, etc. A few examples: English speakers have problems with L2 because we reduce most unaccented syllables to schwa; most other languages are...