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Showstack, Rachel – Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) (NJ3), 2010
People who grow up speaking Spanish in Texas often learn a colloquial variety of Spanish at home or in their communities and have limited abilities to move between different registers in different social contexts. As heritage language (HL) learners' understanding of the value of different language varieties plays an important role in the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Speech Communication, Language Variation, Heritage Education
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Azevedo, Milton M. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1980
Results of an error analysis of compositions by students of Spanish are reported. Advanced students are shown to still make errors in morphology, syntax, choice of prepositions, and lexical choice. Error patterns suggest utilization of variable rules in the analysis of transitional competence. (JB)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Graduate Students, Higher Education, Interlanguage