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Rodriguez, Estrella; Bustamante, Kristina; Wood, Carla; Sunderman, Gretchen – Grantee Submission, 2017
In this study, we elicited grammatical forms (oral production) from a group of child heritage speakers of Spanish (N = 45) in English and Spanish, using the morphosyntax subtest of the Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment (BESA), (Peña et al. 2014). A cross-sectional design was used with 25 participants in kindergarten and 20 in first grade. All…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grammar, Spanish Speaking
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Hertel, Tammy Jandrey; Sunderman, Gretchen – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
This study investigates students' attitudes toward native and nonnative speaking instructors of Spanish. A quantitative questionnaire was administered to 292 students enrolled in three different levels of undergraduate Spanish courses at a U.S. university. Participants were asked to rate Likert scale items related to native versus nonnative…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes, Likert Scales, Native Speakers
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Sunderman, Gretchen; Kroll, Judith F. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2006
This study places the predictions of the bilingual interactive activation model (Dijkstra & Van Heuven, 1998) and the revised hierarchical model (Kroll & Stewart, 1994) in the same context to investigate lexical processing in a second language (L2). The performances of two groups of native English speakers, one less proficient and the other more…
Descriptors: Cues, Translation, Second Language Learning, Interference (Language)