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Izquierdo, Jesús – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2014
This study examined multimedia instruction (MI) effects on the development of the French prototypical and non-prototypical past forms among Hispanophone learners. During 4 weeks of classroom instruction, participants were exposed to MI in one of 4 conditions: learners at early stages of past-tense development received MI including prototypical (n…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Second Language Instruction, French, Morphemes
Gareth P. Morgan; M. Adelaida Restrepo; Alejandra Auza – Grantee Submission, 2013
This study compares Spanish morphosyntax error types and magnitude in monolingual Spanish and Spanish-English bilingual children with typical language development (TD) and language impairment (LI). Performance across groups was compared using cloze tasks that targeted articles, clitics, subjunctives, and derivational morphemes in 57 children.…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Spanish, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning
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Grinstead, John; Cantu-Sanchez, Myriam; Flores-Avalos, Blanca – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2008
In this study, we investigate whether specific language impairment (SLI) manifests itself grammatically in the same way in Spanish and English with respect to nominal plural marking. English-speaking children with SLI are very proficient at marking plural on nouns. Spanish has two main nominal plural allomorphs: /s/ and /es/. The /es/ allomorph…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Speech Communication, Nouns, Morphemes