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Language Teacher Identity: Confronting Ideologies of Language, Race, and Ethnicity
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Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, Editor; Vander Tavares, Editor – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2024
"Language Teacher Identity" presents a groundbreaking critical examination of how ideologies of race, ethnicity, accent, and immigration status impact perceptions of plurilingual teachers. Bringing together contributions by an international panel of established and emerging scholars, this important work of scholarship addresses issues…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Characteristics
Islands and Objects in L2 Spanish: Do You Know the Learners Who Drop___?
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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
Portuguese as a Minority Language: Attitudes of Undergraduate Students Studying Portuguese Literature
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Reis, Sonia Maria Nunes – Multicultural Education, 2011
The differences between European Portuguese (EP) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP) raise some interesting issues that are well worth considering through undergraduate university students' perceptions and attitudes. Instructors of undergraduate courses in Portuguese literature suggest that in terms of curriculum design, curriculum delivery, and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Curriculum Design, Language Variation, Student Attitudes
L3 Syntactic Transfer Selectivity and Typological Determinacy: The Typological Primacy Model
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Rothman, Jason – Second Language Research, 2011
The present article addresses the following question: what variables condition syntactic transfer? Evidence is provided in support of the position that third language (L3) transfer is selective, whereby, at least under certain conditions, it is driven by the typological proximity of the target L3 measured against the other previously acquired…
Descriptors: Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
Clitics and Object Expression in the L3 Acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese: Structural Similarity Matters for Transfer
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Montrul, Silvina; Dias, Rejanes; Santos, Helade – Second Language Research, 2011
This article addresses the role of previously acquired languages in the acquisition of a third language (L3) in two experimental studies on object expression in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). Participants were English-speaking learners of BP as L3 with knowledge of Spanish as a second language (L2) and Spanish-speaking learners of BP with knowledge of…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Speech Communication, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
On the Typological Economy of Syntactic Transfer: Word Order and Relative Clause High/Low Attachment Preference in L3 Brazilian Portuguese
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Rothman, Jason – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2010
One central question in the formal linguistic study of adult multilingual morphosyntax (i.e., L3/Ln acquisition) involves determining the role(s) the L1 and/or the L2 play(s) at the L3 initial state (e.g., Bardel & Falk, Second Language Research 23: 459-484, 2007; Falk & Bardel, Second Language Research: forthcoming; Flynn et al., The…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Language Research, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism