Bibliografía - Aarnes Gudmestad

The current article offers an overview of scholarship on additional-language (e.g., second-language, heritage-language) users of Spanish that has been carried out using learner corpora in the last decade. I focus the review of Spanish learner corpus research on investigations that have examined grammar (e.g., fluency, grammatical gender), vocabulary (e.g., lexical diversity), and pragmatics (e.g., discourse markers), and I highlight the contributions that this body of work has made to the understanding of the use and development of additional-language Spanish. I also discuss the pedagogical applications that this line of inquiry may have. I conclude by identifying specific avenues for future work pertaining to research on additional-language learning and the development of new corpora.

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Este artículo ofrece una descripción general de las investigaciones en la última década sobre hablantes de español como lengua adicional (p. ej., como segunda lengua o lengua de herencia) que se han llevado a cabo utilizando corpus de aprendices. Más concretamente, se pone el foco de atención en la revisión de la investigación de corpus de aprendices de español que examina la gramática (p. ej., la fluidez, el género gramatical), el vocabulario (p. ej., la diversidad léxica) y la pragmática (p. ej., los marcadores discursivos), destacando estas contribuciones al uso y desarrollo del español como lengua adicional. También se abordan las implicaciones pedagógicas más notables. El artículo concluye con la identificación de vías específicas para el trabajo futuro relacionado con la investigación sobre el aprendizaje de idiomas adicionales y el desarrollo de nuevos corpus.

In the current study I explore the relationship between epistemology and methodology through a reanalysis of production data on grammatical gender in additionallanguage Spanish that were analysed in Gudmestad et al. (2019). This reanalysis consists of a shift in the epistemology from the one adopted by Gudmestad et al., where gender marking, which occurs between nouns and both determiners and adjectives, is a unified linguistic phenomenon. In contrast, the assumption in the present investigation is that the acquisition of gender marking entails learning gender assignment and gender agreement, two different learning processes that are observable in language behaviour with determiners and adjectives, respectively. In order to reflect critically on the relationship between epistemology and methodology and specifically on its influence on the interpretation of learner data, I conduct a multi-step analysis that is guided by the differentiation between gender assignment, which can be observed on determiners, and gender agreement, which can be observed on adjectives. I also discuss how the interpretation of the findings can be impacted by the epistemology that guides the current study.

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