A fourth-grade English Language Development (ELD) teacher notices that one of her early-advanced English learners often uses sentence structures similar to that in his primary language, Spanish. For example, he sometimes omits the subject in a sentence such as 'buy apples' when he means 'I buy apples.' What is this phenomenon known as?

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A fourth-grade English Language Development (ELD) teacher notices that one of her early-advanced English learners often uses sentence structures similar to that in his primary language, Spanish. For example, he sometimes omits the subject in a sentence such as 'buy apples' when he means 'I buy apples.' What is this phenomenon known as?