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Santucho, Florencia B.; Arce-Trigatti, Andrea – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2021
A mindful teaching strategy helped improve the language and writing skills of students in a public secondary school in a rural province of Argentina. The authors share how they brought about this development.
Descriptors: Metacognition, Grammar, Native Language Instruction, Spanish
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Dracos, Melisa; Requena, Pablo; Miller, Karen – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2019
Previous research indicates that the development of mood selection in Spanish spans several years and ends in the mastery of mood selection with sentential complements to express complex semantic meanings. The present study investigates this underexplored late stage by examining how Spanish-speaking children acquire adultlike mood selection in…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Acquisition, Verbs, Semantics
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Rosemberg, Celia Renata; Alam, Florencia; Audisio, Cynthia Pamela; Ramirez, María Laura; Garber, Leandro; Migdalek, Maia Julieta – First Language, 2020
This article examines the input to Argentinian Spanish-learning children from low and middle socioeconomic status (SES). It aims to determine whether the vocabulary composition (nouns and verbs) of their input varies as a function of SES, the addressee and other contextual variables such as the type of activity and the pragmatic orientation of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish, Vocabulary Development, Nouns
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Rosemberg, Celia Renata; Alam, Florenciaa; Ramirez, María Laura; Ibañez, María Ileana – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
This study examines the quantity and quality of child-directed speech across household activities in a socioeconomically diverse sample of Argentinian Spanish-speaking children, an understudied population. Thirty children (mean: 14.3 months) and their families were audio-recorded for four hours. The middle two hours were transcribed and analysed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Play, Food
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Cameron, Robert D. – Hispania, 2017
Although millions of speakers of Spanish employ "voseo", the twentieth century did not see a single article published in "Hispania" that suggested incorporating instruction on "voseo" into the language classroom. In contrast, the twenty-first century has already seen three articles published in "Hispania"…
Descriptors: Spanish, Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Pablo E. Requena – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This dissertation examines Spanish Direct Object clitic pronouns in Argentine spoken Spanish of adults and children (ages 4;0-7;0). It concentrates on (Finite verb + Nonfinite verb) constructions that allow both pre-verbal (Proclisis) and a postverbal (Enclisis) clitic placement. Previous corpus studies have shown that lexical (finite verb),…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Variation, Child Language, Form Classes (Languages)