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Montrul, Silvina; Davidson, Justin; De La Fuente, Israel; Foote, Rebecca – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014
We examined how age of acquisition in Spanish heritage speakers and L2 learners interacts with implicitness vs. explicitness of tasks in gender processing of canonical and non-canonical ending nouns. Twenty-three Spanish native speakers, 29 heritage speakers, and 33 proficiency-matched L2 learners completed three on-line spoken word recognition…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Nouns, Spanish
Zimmerman, Nancy S. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Having orally proficient Spanish speaking heritage learners in a class alongside monolingual English speakers who are learning Spanish as a second language is quite the challenge: the heritage learners' ability to converse can be intimidating to the non heritage learner, but at the same time, the non heritage learner's ability to grasp the grammar…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Learning Theories, Heritage Education, Second Language Learning
Honea, Katherine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Research that examines diachronic change and modality posit that modal verbs follow certain universal paths of development (e.g. Cornillie, 2007; Bybee & Fleischman, 1995; Bybee, Perkins & Pagliuca, 1994). The present study examines the development of Spanish modality in Mexico through the use of multivariate analyses, relative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish, Sociolinguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
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Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Eva; Parafita-Couto, M. Carmen – Hispania, 2012
The aim of the present paper is to provide an overview of the so-called "Spanglish" phenomenon and its linguistic repertoires (code-switching utterances). We propose that it is necessary to link all different forms of analysis in order to verify hypotheses regarding the relationship among social, linguistic, and cognitive processes behind…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Interdisciplinary Approach, Anthropological Linguistics, Bilingualism
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Llombart-Huesca, Amalia – Hispania, 2012
The current debate in second language acquisition and heritage language learning is no longer about whether communicative language teaching should include a focus on form, but rather "how" and "when" this is most effective. The proposals for Spanish for heritage language learners (HLLs) courses show a marked preference for an integrated approach…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Spanish
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Demestre, Josep – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
During the last years there has been an increasing interest in examining the brain responses to word order variations. In one ERP study conducted in Spanish, Casado, Martin-Loeches, Munoz, and Fernandez-Frias (2005) had participants read Spanish transitive sentences with either an SVO (subject-verb-object) or an OVS order. The word order of a…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Brain
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Brisk, Maria Estela – Elementary School Journal, 2012
Elementary writing instruction is often limited, mainly focused on personal narratives. Informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics, this article reports on the writing of grade 3-5 bilingual children in a variety of genres. Analysis of their use of first, second, and third person provides insight into their understanding of genre and audience.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Audiences, Writing (Composition), Personal Narratives
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Davison, Megan Dunn; Hammer, Carol Scheffner – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2012
Previous research in the USA studying Spanish-English bilingual children's language development has largely focused on children's developing abilities in Spanish. However, relatively little research has been conducted on children's English grammatical development. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the English grammatical…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Morphemes, Grammar, Disadvantaged Youth
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Tolosa, Constanza; Ordóñez, Claudia Lucía; Alfonso, Tania – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2015
We report on an exploratory study comparing the performance as online tutors of two groups of beginner eleven-year-old students of English in Colombia and Spanish in New Zealand. The native speaker students of the foreign language the others were learning corrected paragraphs written by their peers. The feedback provided by each group of tutors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Linguistic Input, Peer Relationship
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Salaberry, Maximo Rafael – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
The present study compares the relative effect of inherent lexical aspect and discursive grounding on the use of L2 Spanish Preterit and Imperfect. The study is based on the analysis of responses to a written 40-item discourse-based forced-choice task among 286 English-speaking learners of Spanish. The analysis of data (repeated measures ANOVA)…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Native Speakers, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Rothman, Jason; Iverson, Michael – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2013
This study tests native Brazilian Portuguese (BP) speakers of second language (L2) Spanish in the domain of phonologically null object pronouns. This is a worthwhile first language (L1)-L2 pairing given that these languages are historically and typologically related and both seemingly allow for object drop. Nevertheless, the underlying syntax of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Spanish, Syntax
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Beuls, Katrien – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2014
Construction grammar (CG) has been proposed as an adequate grammatical formalism for building intelligent language tutoring systems because it is highly compatible with the learning strategies observed in second language learning. Unfortunately, the lack of computational CG implementations has made it impossible in the past to corroborate these…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Grammar, Second Language Learning, Spanish
Bailey, Carolina – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigated the acquisition of the Spanish clitic se by English native speakers in passive, middle, and impersonal constructions. Little research has been done on this topic in SLA within a UG framework (Bayona, 2005; Bruhn de Garavito, 1999). VanPatten (2004) proposed the Processing Instruction (PI) model arguing for the necessity of…
Descriptors: Spanish, English, Native Speakers, Pretests Posttests
Garcia Frazier, Elena – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study analyzed how six Heritage language learners at the university level gained conscious awareness and control of the concept of modality as revealed in student verbalizations (Vygotsky, 1998) throughout five different written communicative events. This work took place in the only course designed for Heritage language learners at a large…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Heritage Education, Grammar, Bilingualism
Bond, Kristi – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study used ERP (event-related potentials) to examine both the role of the L1 and the role of individual differences in the processing of agreement violations. Theories of L2 acquisition differ with regard to whether or not native-like acquisition of L2 features is possible (Schwartz and Sprouse, 1994, 1996; Tsimpli and Mastropavlou, 2007),…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, English, Spanish
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