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Soneira, Calos; Bansilal, Sarah; Govender, Reginald – Pythagoras, 2021
This study, using a quantitative approach, examined Spanish and South African pre-service teachers' responses to translating word problems based on direct proportionality into equations. The participants were 79 South African and 211 Spanish prospective primary school teachers who were in their second year of a Bachelor of Education degree. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Word Problems (Mathematics)
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Demestre, Josep – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
During the last years there has been an increasing interest in examining the brain responses to word order variations. In one ERP study conducted in Spanish, Casado, Martin-Loeches, Munoz, and Fernandez-Frias (2005) had participants read Spanish transitive sentences with either an SVO (subject-verb-object) or an OVS order. The word order of a…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Brain
Gupton, Timothy Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Previous accounts of preverbal subjects in Spanish and European Portuguese (EP) in the literature have debated the syntactic position of these elements. According to some analyses, preverbal subjects are canonical arguments appearing in an A-position (e.g. Goodall 2001, 2002; Suner 2003 for Spanish; Duarte 1997; Costa 2004 for EP). Other analyses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Syntax, Linguistics, Word Order