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Almudena Fernández-Fontecha; Rosa Mª Jiménez Catalán; James Ryan – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Research is scarce about the lexical processes undertaken by thousands of L2 learners worldwide who already command one or more languages. Some aspects involved in lexical organisation and production, such as clustering and switching, have been traditionally approached through manual methods, which depend on subjective judgments of semantic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Rodríguez-Ortiz, Isabel R.; Saldaña, David; Moreno-Perez, Francisco J. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2017
The aim of the study is to describe the performance of deaf and hearing people while speechreading Spanish, a language with transparent orthography, and to relate this skill to reading efficiency. Three groups of 27 participants each were recruited: a group of deaf participants, a chronological age-matched hearing group and a reading age-matched…
Descriptors: Lipreading, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Spanish
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Carrió-Pastor, María Luisa; Martín Marchante, Beatriz – International Journal of English Studies, 2018
The work at hand is part of a wider study the aim of which was to determine what kind of factors influence failures in pragmatic items of an online adaptive placement test taken by a group of 34 Spanish students in their first year at university. A preceding analysis (Carrió & Martín, 2016) showed the type of personal factors, such as lack of…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Test Items, Language Tests, College Freshmen