Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo study abroad

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Este artículo proporciona una descripción general de las investigaciones sobre el desarrollo de la competencia sociolingüística por aprendices de español como segunda lengua en un contexto de estudios en el extranjero. Más concretamente, se pone el foco de atención en las estructuras variables, es decir los fenómenos lingüísticos que demuestran variación sociolingüística entre hablantes nativos. Se abordan varias estructuras variables (p. ej., la expresión del futuro, la expresión de sujeto, el leísmo, los pronombres de tratamiento, el debilitamiento de /s/ y sheísmo/zheísmo) y varios contextos de estudios en el extranjero (es decir, en diferentes países y programas de distinta duración). El objetivo principal de este artículo es destacar las contribuciones que esta área de investigación ha hecho a la comprensión del desarrollo de una...

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Tipo: libro

Temas: libro aprendizaje

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This book provides a forum for methodological discussions emanating from researchers engaged in studying how individuals acquire an additional language. Whereas publications in the field of second language acquisition generally report on empirical studies with relatively little space dedicated to questions of method, the current book gave authors the opportunity to more fully develop a discussion piece around a methodological issue in connection with the interpretation of language-learning data. The result is a set of seven thought-provoking contributions from researchers with diverse interests. Three main topics are addressed in these chapters: the role of native-speaker norms in second-language analyses, the impact of epistemological stance on experimental design and/or data interpretation, and the challenges of transcription and...

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Tipo: capítulo

Temas: capítulo aprendizaje

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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...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo corpus

Resumen:

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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