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Garcia-Amaya, Lorenzo; Cintron-Valentin, Myrna C. – Modern Language Journal, 2021
As second language (L2) research adapts to the dynamics of multimodal instruction, researchers are exploring the role of captioning and textual enhancement (TE) on learner development. The present experiment assesses the differential effects of textually enhanced captions on learners' elicited imitation of L2 Spanish grammar. Twenty-eight…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Morphemes
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Greer, Tim; Nanbu, Zachary – Modern Language Journal, 2022
This study draws on multimodal conversation analysis to emically account for moments in second language (L2) English interaction in which speakers appear to be visualizing text as they talk. One way they do this is by slotting out elements of a turn-in-progress in the air, shifting their hand in a slotting gesture from left to right as they say…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Gonzalez, Paz; Quintana Hernandez, Lucia – Modern Language Journal, 2018
The aim of this article is to show that the use of Spanish grammatical aspect is biased by inherent aspect depending on the learner's first language (L1). It considers both the Lexical Aspect Hypothesis (LAH; Andersen, 1986, and his followers) and the L1 Transfer Hypothesis (Izquierdo & Collins, 2008; McManus, 2015), and it compares the use of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar, Prediction