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Direct linkWaltermire, Mark; Valtierrez, Mayra – Hispania, 2019
The use of English-origin spontaneous loanwords (e.g., "la babysitter," "el counter," etc.) in otherwise Spanish discourse is criticized by many as a strategy that bilinguals use to compensate for a lack of lexical knowledge in Spanish. The purpose of the current research is to examine the question of lexical proficiency as a…
Descriptors: Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Linguistic Borrowing
