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Download full textGascon, Christopher D. – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1998
The Spanish psychological verb construction seems to be especially difficult for native English-speaking learners to acquire. Since some of the most common Spanish psych verbs, such as "gustar" (to please) and "encantar" (to delight), require a grammatical structure that is different from that of the English verbs frequently…
Descriptors: English, Error Patterns, Grammar, Higher Education
Lee, Mi-Ae – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1997
A study examined the morphosyntactic mechanism of a common code-switching (CS) pattern, the use of an English adjective (content morpheme) + Korean "-ita" (a system morpheme meaning "be") in the speech of Korean-English bilinguals. Data were drawn from audiotaped conversations of three subjects with their family members or…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), English
Carpenter, Mark, Ed.; Koike, Dale April, Ed. – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1998
Papers reporting research on Spanish second language learning include: "Discourse Features of Spanish Oral Production at the Novice Level" (Rebecca Jo Bearden); "A Discourse Approach to the Assessment of Foreign Language Oral Proficiency" (Dale April Koike, Fanny Hinojosa); "Acquisition of Spanish Definite Articles by English-Speaking Learners of…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Auditory Perception, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers
