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Gort, Mileidis – Journal of Literacy Research, 2012
This qualitative study examined code-switching patterns in the writing-related talk of 6 emergent Spanish-English bilingual first-grade children. Audio recordings, field notes, and writing artifacts documenting participant activities and language use in Spanish and English writing workshops were gathered over the course of 6 months and analyzed…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Writing Processes, Writing Workshops, Code Switching (Language)
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Lazarte, Alejandro A.; Barry, Sue – Language Learning, 2008
In Experiment 1, monolingual native Spanish speakers (NSSs) had better kernel recall and longer end-of-clause (EOC) pauses than native English speakers (NESs) when reading texts that varied in syntactic complexity as a function of the number of nonessential clauses added to the kernel text. NSS familiarity with embedded clauses in Spanish seem to…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Monolingualism, Spanish Literature, English (Second Language)
Schultheis, Maria Luiza Carrano – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The usage and disappearance of the Central Ibero-Romance future subjunctive have been extensively researched through Old Spanish texts. Studies on the future subjunctive as it evolved in the farther Western Ibero-Romance languages, represented by Galician and Portuguese, have been scarce, if not incomplete. This dissertation partially fills the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Morphemes, Medieval History