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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
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Mulík, Stanislav; Carrasco-Ortiz, Haydée – Second Language Research, 2023
This study investigated the influence of phonological word representations from both first language (L1) and second language (L2) on third language (L3) lexical learning in L1-dominant Spanish-English bilinguals. More specifically, we used event-related potentials (ERPs) to determine whether L1 Spanish and L2 English phonology modulates…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Johnston, Malcolm – 1995
Seven postulated stages of acquisition of Spanish as a second language are examined within the context of Processability Theory, whose predictive paradigm is applicable to interlanguage development in any second language (L2). The theory argues that the sequence in which the target language unfolds in the learner is determined by the sequence in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Interlanguage, Language Processing
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Rothman, Jason; Iverson, Michael – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2007
It has been argued that extended exposure to naturalistic input provides L2 learners with more of an opportunity to converge of target morphosyntactic competence as compared to classroom-only environments, given that the former provide more positive evidence of less salient linguistic properties than the latter (e.g., Isabelli 2004). Implicitly,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages)
Bailey, Kathleen M., Ed.; And Others – 1983
This collection of 16 papers covers theoretical issues and research on interlanguage development and second language acquisition variables. Among the specific topics addressed are: morpheme group interactions, acquisition of complex sentences in English as a second language, uniformity in interlanguage development, Spanish-English basilang,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, English (Second Language), Immersion Programs, Interlanguage
Correa-Beningfield, Margarita – 1988
A study compares and contrasts a set of English and Spanish prepositions of location in the context of prototype theory. It seeks to establish the prototype concept of each preposition and the degrees of prototypicality by testing for native-speaker choices of examples that illustrate best the most basic use of the preposition. The prepositions…
Descriptors: Classification, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Interlanguage
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Walsh, Catherine E. – Bilingual Review, 1983
The distinction in meanings of the English word "educated" and Spanish "educado" is used to illustrate a theory of semantic memory for the bilingual that proposes two lexical stores, one for each language, in close cooperation with and connected by one semantic memory. The postulated relation between the lexicons and the semantic memory is…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Interlanguage, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
Master, Peter – 1988
A study examined second language article acquisition by analyzing the spoken interlanguage of speakers of five different native languages, three with no article system (Chinese, Japanese, and Russian) and two with article systems (Spanish and German). Informal interviews of four speakers of each language at successive levels of interlanguage…
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language)
Goldman, Susan R. – 1983
A two-year study is reported of the transfer of two literacy skills, narrative comprehension and learning from text, from elementary school children's first language (Spanish) to their second (English). For each skill, the primary research question was the degree to which the students' first language (L1) performance was predictive of their second…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comprehension, Context Clues, Elementary Education
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Call, Mary Emily; Sotillo, Susana M. – Hispania, 1995
Describes a study conducted to test the hypothesis that focused conversations with native speakers held on a weekly basis will contribute to the development of learners' internal grammars of Spanish. This study centered on college students as they developed an appreciation of the different contexts requiring the preterite or the imperfect tense…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, Interaction Process Analysis, Interlanguage
Bouton, Lawrence F., Ed.; Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. – Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1992
Monographs on pragmatics and language learning include: "Do We All Apologize the Same?--An Empirical Study on the Act of Apologizing by Spanish Speakers Learning English" (Montserrat Mir); "Conversational Openings in Kiswahili: The Pragmatic Performance of Native and Non-Native Speakers" (Alwiya S. Omar); "Experimental and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Cultural Traits