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Direct linkTianfang Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Conceptual Metaphor (CM; e.g., Lakoff & Johnson, 1980, 1999; Kovecses, 2020) is central to our thinking and ubiquitously manifested in our language. Given its importance, the teaching of conceptual metaphors has gained much attention in Cognitive Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. While most empirical studies have focused on specific aspects…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Concept Formation
Ponti Medeiros, Cezar Augusto – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation explores why grammatical structures are better learned implicitly or explicitly by investigating differential object marking (DOM) in Spanish. To address the effectiveness of implicit versus explicit instruction in the classroom, the researcher focused on two of the main features that constrain DOM in Spanish: animacy and…
Descriptors: Spanish, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Teaching Methods
Zamora, Celia Chomon – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The field of Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) has expressed interest in pursuing a research agenda that expands the current heritage language (HL) strand of research to investigate how this heterogeneous population re-learns their family language, and how this experience differs from that of second language (L2) learners. This…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Feedback (Response), Spanish, Correlation
Bonilla, Carrie L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The goal of this dissertation is to test the five stages of Processability Theory (PT) for second language (L2) learners of Spanish and investigate how instruction can facilitate the development through the stages. PT details five fixed stages in the acquisition of L2 morphosyntax based on principles of speech processing (Levelt, 1989) and modeled…
Descriptors: Syntax, Morphology (Languages), English, Native Language
Bailey, Carolina – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigated the acquisition of the Spanish clitic se by English native speakers in passive, middle, and impersonal constructions. Little research has been done on this topic in SLA within a UG framework (Bayona, 2005; Bruhn de Garavito, 1999). VanPatten (2004) proposed the Processing Instruction (PI) model arguing for the necessity of…
Descriptors: Spanish, English, Native Speakers, Pretests Posttests
Isenberg, Noelle Ariane – ProQuest LLC, 2010
A number of universities offer fully web-based language courses. Many others are considering this option. Yet it remains unclear whether web-based courses can be as comprehensively effective as classroom-based courses. And, if so, what might an effective web-based language course look like? This dissertation considers the German Online at PSU…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Language Processing, Comparative Analysis, Internet
