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Call, Mary Emily; Sotillo, Susana M. – Hispania, 1995
Describes a study conducted to test the hypothesis that focused conversations with native speakers held on a weekly basis will contribute to the development of learners' internal grammars of Spanish. This study centered on college students as they developed an appreciation of the different contexts requiring the preterite or the imperfect tense…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, Interaction Process Analysis, Interlanguage
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Lafford, Barbara A.; Ryan, John M. – Hispania, 1995
Examination of the development of form/function relations of the prepositions "por" and "para" at different levels of proficiency in the interlanguage of study-abroad students in Granada, Spain, revealed "noncanonical" as well as "canonical" uses of these prepositions. The most common noncanonical uses were…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries