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Panagiota Margaza; Anna Gavarró – Second Language Research, 2024
Greek and Spanish are two languages that display a similar subject distribution with unergative/unaccusative verbs, but different word orders with focused subjects (SV in Greek and VS in Spanish). Here we consider subject-verb word order in second language (L2) Greek and L2 Spanish in order to test the Interface Hypothesis (IH). To this end, we…
Descriptors: Greek, Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Verbs
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Ana B. García-Gámez; Óscar Cervilla; Alba Casado; Pedro Macizo – Language Teaching Research, 2024
We evaluate the impact of gestures during the teaching of vocabulary in a foreign language (FL). Spanish speakers learned words in a FL in four gesture conditions according to the relationship between the meaning of the words and the gestures (congruent gestures, incongruent gestures, gestures without meaning, and no gestures). The participants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Spanish Speaking, Nonverbal Communication