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Labrador de la Cruz, Belén – International Journal of English Studies, 2019
This study explores the different uses of the word "little," its equivalents in Spanish and its teaching to young Spanish learners. First, it aims at analyzing the lexico-grammatical behavior of "little" in a corpus of children's short stories, where its prevailing use, preceding countable nouns, has been found to be much more…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Spanish, Computational Linguistics, Translation
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Snape, Neal; García-Mayo, Maria Del Pilar; Gurel, Ayse – International Journal of English Studies, 2013
This study examines second language (L2) acquisition of English generic noun phrases (NPs) by Spanish, Turkish and Japanese learners. The aim is to identify the role of the first language (L1) in the L2 acquisition of definite NP-level generics and indefinite sentence-level generics with singular, bare plural, and mass generic nouns. The four…
Descriptors: Native Language, Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Nouns