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Daidone, Danielle – Hispania, 2019
This study compares Spanish instructors' use of preterite and imperfect in the foreign language classroom to the distribution of these forms in large-scale corpora, which represent the input learners would potentially receive in a naturalistic learning context. Twenty-four 50-minute class sessions were recorded, and all tokens of preterite and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Verbs, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Pascual y Cabo, Diego – Hispania, 2016
This study contributes to current trends of heritage speaker bilingualism research by examining the syntax of so-called Spanish dative-experiencer predicates ("gustar"-like verbs). Building on previous findings (e.g., Silva-Corvalán 1994; Toribio and Nye 2006), it is hypothesized that Spanish heritage speakers can project an optional…
Descriptors: Spanish, Spanish Speaking, Native Language, Syntax
Mejías-Bikandi, Errapel – Hispania, 2014
Complements of causative predicates such as "hacer" in Spanish present a problem for analyses of mood that are based on semantic or pragmatic notions of assertion. The problem results from the fact that information expressed by these complements is presented both as true and new, and yet the complement verb appears in the subjunctive…
Descriptors: Spanish, Grammar, Verbs, Phrase Structure
Coles, Felice A. – Hispania, 2012
Isleno Spanish speakers maintain few contexts firmly in the subjunctive (for example, adverbial clauses with the conjunctions "para que" and "antes que" and nominal clauses with "querer"), with most other semantic or syntactic categories optionally licensing the subjunctive. This study will outline the obligatory and optional uses of present and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Spanish, Syntax
Díaz, Erin McNulty – Hispania, 2018
In seeking to both confirm previous conclusions and expand the literature of the field with a different group of participants, McNulty (2012) was (partially) replicated. Three instructional interventions were designed to ascertain which activity type was responsible for learner gains. One treatment group (R) included referential-only practice…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Teaching Methods, Intervention, Control Groups
Sessarego, Cecilia – Hispania, 2016
The aim of a discourse-pragmatic approach to teaching the indicative/subjunctive contrast in Spanish is to engage students to move beyond grammar and semantics and enter the domain of language use in complete texts. Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research have mostly focused on the morphology, semantics and syntactic aspects of…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Gallego, Muriel – Hispania, 2016
The present study investigates whether the implementation of a dictogloss task within a proactive Focus on Form approach (e.g., Long 1991; Long and Robinson 1998) has significant effects on the acquisition of Spanish present subjunctive. A total of sixty-six learners in a fifth-semester Spanish course participated in the study and were assigned to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Task Analysis, Oral Language
Bonilla, Carrie L. – Hispania, 2013
This essay contributes to the research on the emergence of tense/aspect morphology by reviewing the results and task conditions of studies supporting either the Aspect Hypothesis (AH) or the Default Past Tense Hypothesis (DPTH) for second language (L2) learners of Spanish. The AH has found that past marking emerges based on inherent aspectual…
Descriptors: Spanish, Morphemes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
VanPatten, Bill; Borst, Stefanie – Hispania, 2012
In the present study, we examine the roles of 1) explicit information about language provided to learners prior to treatment and 2) aptitude (specifically grammatical sensitivity) within Processing Instruction. Forty-two learners of Spanish in their third-semester of study were divided into two groups: those who received explicit information (EI)…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Grammar, Aptitude Tests

Goldin, Mark G. – Hispania, 1974
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Research, Linguistics, Sentence Structure

Lipski, John M. – Hispania, 1978
Discusses the issue of the use of the Spanish subjunctive in clauses that express neither doubt nor emotion, but appear to deal with strictly factual material. Such uses of the subjunctive are accommodated within the generally accepted one- or two-subjunctive models. (EJS)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Usage, Sentence Structure, Spanish

Roldan, Mercedes – Hispania, 1974
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Language Research, Semantics

Lozano, Anthony G. – Hispania, 1972
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Instruction, Semantics, Sentence Structure

Gonzalez-Mena de Lococo, Veronica A. – Hispania, 1975
Rules for irregular Spanish verbs are presented here in an unusual way as an aid for students and teachers. (CK)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Spanish

Roldan, Mercedes – Hispania, 1974
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Language Research, Semantics