Tipo: artículo

Metodología:

Temas: adquisición de segundas lenguas

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Extended oral production has seldom been used to explore adjectival and verbal agreement in L2 Spanish. This study examines oral narrations to compare the agreement behavior, speech rates, and patterns of errors of highly proficient Spanish heritage and L2 learners (early and late bilinguals, respectively), whose L1 is English, with those of native controls. Although both bilingual groups displayed high agreement accuracy scores, only the early bilinguals performed at or close to ceiling. In addition, the L2 learners spoke significantly more slowly than the heritage and native speakers, who displayed similar speech rates. Explanations accounting for the differences in speech rates and agreement accuracy include age of acquisition of Spanish, syntactic distance between a noun and its adjective, and task effects. All of these factors...

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Tipo: artículo

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Temas: lingüística cognitiva

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Este artículo presenta una reflexión sobre el papel central de dos paradigmas de la teoría lingüística actual en los estudios de adquisición/aprendizaje de ELE/L2 y su operatividad en la enseñanza. Tanto la Gramática Generativa (GG) como la Gramática Cognitiva (GC) son modelos lingüísticos de corte mentalista, pero sus postulados sobre la relación entre la cognición humana y el conocimiento lingüístico de la lengua no nativa son, en muchos casos, opuestos y, por tanto, conducen a diferentes implicaciones para una gramática pedagógica. A lo largo del artículo consideraremos también el modo en el que pueden llegar a ser complementarios. Aunque la GC ha tenido mayor difusión y aplicación en el aula, la GG actual puede...

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Tipo: libro

Metodología:

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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A major challenge in language teacher education is finding materials that clearly articulate the common ground among theoretical concepts, research findings, and classroom practices. This book aims to help educators make a direct connection between second language acquisition (SLA) principles and the reality of language classrooms. Rather than trying to address every aspect of SLA and pedagogy, which would result in an overwhelming amount of information, the goal of this book is to help world language educators understand how they can develop materials or implement classroom strategies that are informed by core principles of SLA. This book was authored with language educators in mind, first and foremost. Key concepts are...

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Tipo: vídeo

Metodología:

Temas: adquisición de segundas lenguas

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Steven Pinker shares his expertise on how the brain develops language while shedding light on how children, in particular, acquire language at a young age.

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Temas: análisis de errores

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En este artículo nos proponemos presentar los errores etiológicos ? inter e intralingüísticos ? verificados en la interlengua de brasileños hablantes/aprendientes de Español. Más específicamente damos énfasis a las dificultades que estos hablantes tienen en el empleo de los verbos en español. En este estudio, identificamos los errores, los clasificamos, los describimos y explicamos sus posibles causas. Analizamos, para ello, las pruebas de producción escrita del examen de dominio de la lengua aplicado por universidades argentinas ? el Certificado de Español: Lengua y Uso (CELU). Nos proponemos compartir los resultados obtenidos por medio de esta investigación y promover en el docente de lengua española para brasileños una...

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Temas: gramática

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Este manual se dirige a todo aquel docente que, aunque posee conocimientos de didáctica de segundas lenguas, es consciente de que le faltan conocimientos sobre lingüística y adquisición de lenguas. Los autores abordan un tema central en cualquier clase de español como segunda lengua: la expresión de la temporalidad mediante las categorías de tiempo y aspecto verbales. A lo largo de sus capítulos, que combinan justificaciones teóricas con ejemplos y reflexiones para el lector, se analizan los conceptos de tiempo, aspecto y modalidad contrastando las formas y usos de los tiempos verbales en español y cuatro lenguas más (inglés, rumano, amazigh y chino). El capítulo final se centra en los procesos de adquisición del tiempo y el aspecto en español como segunda lengua. La obra, lejos de negar la complejidad de la enseñanza y el aprendizaje...

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Temas: gramática pedagógica

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In this paper we focus on the relationship between Spanish compounding and derivation on the one hand, and anaphoric relations involving null and overt subjects, on the other, in order to argue that a pedagogical grammar of Spanish for non-native speakers should take into consideration: (i) universal approaches to the analysis of Spanish which also depict its specific structural properties; (ii) psycholinguistic proposals on how Spanish morphosyntactic structures are acquired and processed; and (iii) empirical research that provides information about the learnability principles and the mechanisms involved in the acquisition of Spanish grammar. This threefold approach draws from developments that have taken place in this century. First, linguistic theory has refined the ?universal? principles and parameters approach developed to...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: corpus

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This article presents a state-of-the-art discussion of second language (L2) Spanish corpus-based research on lexical competence. While L2 Spanish learner corpus research (LCR) is still in its infancy, we will review the major findings of relevant studies on the production of several lexical aspects: copula choice with ser/estar; overt/null pronoun distribution; collocations and lexico-syntactic verbal competence. Due to the highly contextualised nature of learner corpus data, many of these studies show that learners do not always behave differently from natives in terms of frequency of use, though they may differ in terms of discursive and pragmatic uses. The article ends with some theoretical and methodological caveats about L2 Spanish learner corpus research. An argument is made for the need to conduct L2 corpus-based research which...

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Tipo: libro

Metodología:

Temas: diferencias individuales

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This book presents comprehensive, thorough and updated analyses of key cognitive individual difference factors (e.g., age, intelligence, language aptitude, working memory, metacognition, learning strategies, and anxiety) as they relate to the acquisition, processing, assessment, and pedagogy of second or foreign languages. Critical reviews and in-depth research syntheses of these pivotal cognitive learner factors are put into historical and broader contexts, drawing upon the multiple authors' extensive research experience, penetrating insights and unique perspectives spanning applied linguistics, teacher training, educational psychology, and cognitive science. The carefully crafted chapters provide essential course readings and valuable references for seasoned researchers and aspiring postgraduate students in the broad fields of...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: lingüística cognitiva

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This article lies within the field of applied cognitive linguistics (ACL) and presents empirical work that addresses overlooked effects of assessment typology in second language (L2) learning. It examines whether pairing a cognitive instructional approach with matching assessment design results in greater learning outcomes over the more pervasive notional-functional approaches. The last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of empirical research measuring the effectiveness of ACL-based teaching approaches, yet studies have only been partly fruitful in eliciting data that truly favors ACL. We argue that this is largely due to assessment design, which typically measures performance via correct vs. incorrect tasks. To overcome this caveat, two studies addressing the complex Spanish psych-verb construction (e.g. gustar ?to like?)...

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