At first, you might be able to walk across carefully, but as you add to it, one day it might be strong enough to drive a car across! Now imagine your ledge is your native language and you are trying to conquer a second language: the other ledge. In this scenario, your bridge will be called interlanguage.

What do you mean by interlanguage?

1 : language or a language for international communication. 2 : a language produced by a learner of a second language that often has grammatical features not found in either the learner's native language or the language being acquired.

What is interlanguage in language teaching?

An interlanguage is an idiolect that has been developed by a learner of a second language (or L2) which preserves some features of their first language (or L1), and can also overgeneralize some L2 writing and speaking rules. ... An interlanguage is idiosyncratically based on the learners' experiences with the L2.