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Reynolds-Case, Anne – Hispania, 2012
This article presents a qualitative study demonstrating how teachers who are non-native speakers (NNS) of the target language and who have learned the target language in a similar environment as their students can use their past learning experiences as pedagogical tools in their classes. An analysis of transcripts from classrooms with NNS and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Learning Processes, Qualitative Research, Spanish
Heining-Boynton, Audrey L. – Hispania, 2010
The time has come to create a realistic grammar syllabus in the beginning language courses. Yet why do some in the profession insist that all grammar must be taught in the first year of language learning? Abundant data from decades of research on topics such as human memory, chunking, and second language acquisition exist that overwhelmingly…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Grammar
Williams, Lawrence; Abraham, Lee B.; Negueruela-Azarola, Eduardo – Language Teaching Research, 2013
A number of recent studies (see, for example, Lantolf, 2010; Negueruela & Lantolf, 2006; van Compernolle, 2011) have focused on the use of learning tools developed according to the principles of concept-based instruction (CBI). Using videorecorded data from interviews and observations of classroom instruction, our study seeks to contribute to…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Interviews
Valenzuela, Elena; Faure, Ana; Ramirez-Trujillo, Alma P.; Barski, Ewelina; Pangtay, Yolanda; Diez, Adriana – Hispania, 2012
The study examined heritage speaker grammars and to what extent they diverge with respect to grammatical gender from adult L2 learners. Results from a preference task involving code-mixed Determiner Phrases (DPs) and code-mixed copula constructions show a difference between these two types of operations. Heritage speakers patterned with the…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Spanish, Grammar, Heritage Education
Castaneda, Daniel A. – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
This study investigated the differences in levels of achievement when learning the preterite and imperfect aspects in Spanish, at the recognition and production levels, between students who used instruction with video/photo blogs and wikis, compared to those who used instruction with traditional text-based technologies. Results revealed that there…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Recognition (Achievement)
Kurinski, Elena; Sera, Maria D. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
Second language acquisition studies can contribute to the body of research on the influence of language on thought by examining cognitive change as a result of second language learning. We conducted a longitudinal study that examined how the acquisition of Spanish grammatical gender influences categorization in native English-speaking adults. We…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Grammar, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Carreira, Maria; Potowski, Kim – Heritage Language Journal, 2011
This special issue of the "Heritage Language Journal", guest edited by Silvina Montrul, unites four papers on different aspects of heritage Spanish speakers' linguistic abilities. In this commentary, we reexamine these important contributions with an eye toward implications for instruction and toward general trends for the field. In particular, we…
Descriptors: Spanish, Native Speakers, Native Language Instruction, Heritage Education
Judy, Tiffany – ProQuest LLC, 2013
While normal child language acquisition results in complete productive and comprehension abilities at a relatively young age, adult language acquisition is more belabored and often results in linguistic abilities that differ from those of native speakers in terms of both productive and comprehension abilities. A major line of research in language…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Bilingualism, Language Research, Grammar
Sagae, Kenji; Davis, Eric; Lavie, Alon; MacWhinney, Brian; Wintner, Shuly – Journal of Child Language, 2010
Corpora of child language are essential for research in child language acquisition and psycholinguistics. Linguistic annotation of the corpora provides researchers with better means for exploring the development of grammatical constructions and their usage. We describe a project whose goal is to annotate the English section of the CHILDES database…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Grammar, Child Language, Language Acquisition
Toth, Paul D. – Modern Language Journal, 2011
This study compares descriptive quantitative and qualitative data from 2 beginning, university-level second-language (L2) Spanish classes to demonstrate the benefits of teacher-led discourse organized as collaborative, whole-class tasks. In class, the teacher solicited target L2 forms through conversational questions to individuals with recasted…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Cognitive Processes, Classroom Communication, Comparative Analysis
Collentine, Joseph – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
Initial studies on the acquisition of two Spanish copulas, "ser" and "estar", emerged from a research agenda exploring whether second language (L2) development was driven by universal mechanisms manifested in stages rather than an accumulation of entities (Rutherford, 1987). Concerning the Spanish copulas, the stages of acquisition through which…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, Spanish, Spanish Speaking
Iverson, Michael Bryan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Language acquisition research frequently concerns itself with linguistic development and result of the acquisition process with respect to a first or subsequent language. For some, it seems tacitly assumed that a first language, once acquired, remains stable, regardless of exposure to and the acquisition of additional language(s) beyond the first…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Validity, Language Research, Spanish
Hoot, Bradley – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In Spanish, it is most commonly claimed that constituents in narrow presentational focus appear rightmost, where they also get main stress (1a), while stress in situ (1b) is infelicitous. (1) [Context: Who bought a car?]. a. Compró un carro mi [mamá][subscript F]. bought a car my mom. b. Mi [mamá ][subscript F] compró un carro. However, some…
Descriptors: Spanish, Native Language, Intonation, Syntax
Lichtman, Karen Melissa – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Mainstream linguistics has long held that there is a fundamental difference between adult and child language learning (Bley-Vroman, 1990; Johnson & Newport, 1989; DeKeyser, 2000; Paradis, 2004). This difference is often framed as a change from implicit language learning in childhood to explicit language learning in adulthood, which is…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Adults, Children, Learning Processes
Foote, Rebecca – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
Research on the production of subject-verb number agreement in monolinguals suggests differences between and within languages in how it proceeds as a function of morphological richness. When agreement morphology is relatively rich, the influence of conceptual number over grammatical number is less than when it is relatively poor. Within the…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Language Proficiency, Bilingualism