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The pendulum in foreign language acquisition theories seems to be on its way back. The rather extreme view held bij Krashen and others that L1 interference plays a minor part in foreign language acquisition is being refuted by more empirical counterevidence.While most of the evidence is taken from students' performance in the productive skills and is considered in a L1 -L2 context, this article deals with evidence from a receptive skill which has been analysed in a broader context.