Usually means: Old learning hinders new skills.
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  1. negative transfer: Merriam-Webster
  2. negative transfer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. negative transfer: Wiktionary
  4. negative transfer: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. negative transfer: Dictionary.com
  6. Negative transfer (disambiguation), Negative transfer (memory): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. negative transfer: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. negative transfer: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. negative transfer: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. negative transfer: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (negative transfer)

noun:  (linguistics) The unsuccessful 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 incorrect.

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