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Sydney Dickerson; Lori Czerwionka – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
While discourse markers (DMs) are crucial for coherence and interactional competence, previous research suggests that learners' usage of DMs differs from L1 speakers. Prior research has taken either a discourse-functional or interactional approach, yet combining these two methods may provide greater understanding of the unique learner…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Speakers
Natalia Veronica Saez – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Learning to use prepositions in English as a second language (L2) has been widely acknowledged to pose significant difficulties to learners, especially within metaphorical contexts. Difficulties relate to the complex distributional patterns of prepositions in discourse, namely, the variety of collocations requiring their use, as well as…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Geçkin, Vasfiye – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2022
Variability in the form of article (i.e., a and the) omissions and stressing has been attributed to a mismatch between first (L1) and second language (L2) prosodic and syntactic structures. An overlap between the L1 and L2 systems, on the other hand, is expected to contribute to native-like article productions. This case study aims to explore the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages), Syntax
Paquot, Magali – Second Language Research, 2017
This study investigated French and Spanish EFL (English as a foreign language) learners' preferred use of three-word lexical bundles with discourse or stance-oriented function with a view to exploring the role of first language (L1) frequency effects in foreign language acquisition. Word combinations were extracted from learner performance data…
Descriptors: Native Language, French, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Gudmestad, Aarnes – Language Learning, 2012
This investigation connects issues in second language (L2) acquisition to topics in quantitative sociolinguistics by exploring the relationship between native-speaker (NS) and L2 variation. It is the first large-scale analysis of L2 mood use (the subjunctive-indicative contrast) in Spanish. It applies variationist findings on the range of…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Semantics, Interlanguage, English (Second Language)
Asencion-Delaney, Yuly; Collentine, Joseph – Applied Linguistics, 2011
The present study adds to our understanding of how learners employ lexical and grammatical phenomena to communicate in writing in different types of interlanguage discourse. A multidimensional (factor) analysis of a corpus of L2 Spanish writing (202,241 words) generated by second- and third-year, university-level learners was performed. The…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes, Spanish, Computational Linguistics
Taguchi, Naoko, Ed.; Skyes, Julie M., Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2013
Technology-informed approaches to L2 research and teaching have prompted great interest by both researchers and practitioners alike. This book highlights the relationship between digitally-mediated technologies and second language pragmatics by presenting exemplary applications of technology for both research and pedagogy. Part I presents…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kregar, Sandra – ProQuest LLC, 2011
For several decades, research in instructed second language acquisition (SLA) has focused on identifying the facilitative role that interaction plays in second language (L2) development (e.g., Gass, 1997; Long, 1996; Pica, 1996). Within this area of interest, a considerable amount of attention has been directed toward the feedback that learners…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Feedback (Response), Language Usage, Control Groups
Bataller, Rebeca – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
This study addresses the development of the request strategies used in two service encounter scenarios by 31 nonnative speakers of Spanish spending 4 months living and studying in Valencia, Spain. The main method of data collection was an open role-play in which participants interacted with a Spanish native speaker. Results show that while there…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Felix-Brasdefer, J. Cesar – Language Awareness, 2008
Descriptions of speech act realisations of native and non-native speakers abound in the cross-cultural and interlanguage pragmatics literature. Yet, what is lacking is an analysis of the cognitive processes involved in the production of speech acts. This study examines the cognitive processes and perceptions of learners of Spanish when refusing…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Second Language Learning, Interlanguage, Cognitive Processes
Alvarez, Esther – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2003
It is a matter of debate whether the two differentiated grammatical systems in a bilingual child develop autonomously, or whether there is interdependence and in what areas (Genesee, 2001; Meisel, 2001). Extensive research is being carried out in the emergence of the two grammars, but not much attention has been given to the development of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Grammar, Spanish, English
Nagy, William E.; And Others – 1995
In a study with seventh- and eighth-graders, Spanish-English bilinguals (n=41) and English monolinguals (n=48) used brief English contexts to choose among possible meanings for unfamiliar words. Two types of errors were compared: transfer errors, which were answers consistent with Spanish but not English syntax, and non-transfer errors, which were…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Context Clues, English, Error Analysis (Language)
Stiefel, Jane – 1982
The language community of urban Hispanics in the United States and educational strategies that are appropriate for teaching English as a second language (ESL) in a bilingual/bidialectal language situation are considered. Within the New York City Hispanic community of Puerto Ricans, several varieties of English have been noted: standard English,…
Descriptors: Dialects, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Hispanic Americans