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Dressler, Cheryl; Carlo, Maria S.; Snow, Catherine E.; August, Diane; White, Claire E. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
This research examines the processes which native Spanish-speaking learners of English and English-only students engage in when inferring meaning for unknown English words that have Spanish cognates. Conducted within the context of a large-scale vocabulary intervention that taught word inferencing strategies, including a cognate strategy, this…
Descriptors: Metacognition, English (Second Language), Spanish Speaking, Second Language Learning
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Casey, Shannon; Emmorey, Karen; Larrabee, Heather – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
Given that the linguistic articulators for sign language are also used to produce co-speech gesture, we examined whether one year of academic instruction in American Sign Language (ASL) impacts the rate and nature of gestures produced when speaking English. A survey study revealed that 75% of ASL learners (N = 95), but only 14% of Romance language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, American Sign Language, Cartoons, Second Language Learning
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De Garavito, Joyce Bruhn; Valenzuela, Elena – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
This paper reports on an empirical study that examined knowledge of eventive and stative passives in the L2 Spanish grammar of L1 speakers of English. Although the two types of passive exist in English, the difference between them is not signaled in any specific way. In Spanish, in contrast, the distinction is marked by the choice of copula: "ser"…
Descriptors: Sentences, Grammar, Spanish, Second Language Instruction
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Pladevall Ballester, Elisabet – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
The apparent optionality in the use of null and overt pronominal subjects and the apparently free word order or distribution of preverbal and postverbal subjects in Spanish obey a number of discourse-pragmatic constraints which play an important role in Spanish L2 subject development. Although research on subject properties at the syntax-discourse…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Form Classes (Languages), Word Order, Spanish
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Woolsey, Daniel – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
The current study addresses the challenge of investigating the SLA of "estar" with adjectives when highlighting two specific contextual meanings: comparisons within an individual frame of reference and speaker reactions as a result of immediate experience with the referent. "Estar" is examined within these contexts using a picture-description task…
Descriptors: Students, Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Montrul, Silvina – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
Any person who has taught Spanish as a second language or who has interacted with a non-native speaker of Spanish can easily tell that mastering the correct use of the copulas "ser" and "estar" is very difficult in both spoken and written production. But L2 learners are not alone. The Spanish copulas also present difficulty and frustration for L2…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Morphology (Languages), Linguistics
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Jake, Janice L.; Myers-Scotton, Carol; Gross, Steven – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2002
Discusses the Matrix Language Frame model. Analysis of noun phrases in a Spanish-English corpus illustrates this compatibility and shows how recent minimalist proposals can explain the distribution of nouns and determiners in the data if they adopt the notion of matrix language as bilingual instantiation of structural uniformity in a CP.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), English, Foreign Countries