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Lexical Availability and Foreign Language Teaching: Main Contributions of a Growing Field
Theory and Practice of Second Language AcquisitionTeaching vocabulary presents a significant challenge in foreign language instruction. This article discusses the advantages that the results obtained in studies on lexical availability offer for foreign language teaching.
Marta Sánchez-Saus Laserna
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SAGE Open, 2013 Adults attending short, language for specific purpose courses may have expertise not utilized in general foreign language courses. The present study investigates two factors that may influence the acquisition of medical Spanish vocabulary in such persons:
Marcia Foresee Drumhiller +1 more
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Doblele, 2018 This paper is intended to be a study of the translation of the contemporary Spanish poetry by the former Chinese poet Dai Wangshu, and how his translations are used in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language in China.
Jiajing Song
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Telecollaboration in Spanish as a Foreign Language in Trinidad
Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2010 The objective is to study how participation in tandem partnership influences the motivation towards the target language and culture and the autonomy of learners of Spanish as a foreign language in Trinidad and Tobago. For this reason, an action research project was conducted with thirty-three learners of Spanish in Trinidad and thirty-three learners ...
Neva, Carolina +3 more
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Learning Spanish as a foreign language through Music
Aula Abierta, 2021 Music has multiple characteristics that make it an ideal tool for teaching and learning languages. Although some research has been done on this subject, there are still many areas to explore. This quantitative research presents survey data from 178 students of Spanish as a Foreign Language to better understand how adult learners use music and other ...
Pérez Carmona, José +3 more
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Ибероамериканские тетради, 2015 The article deals with the problem of phonological hearing formation in the process of teaching Spanish as a foreign language. The main difficulty of mastering Spanish phonetics is the diversity of nationalvariants and dialects of the Spanish language ...
O. V. Murashkina
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LexComSpaL2: A Lexical Complexity Corpus for Spanish as a Foreign Language
Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation ConferenceWe present LexComSpaL2, a novel corpus which can be employed to train personalised word-level difficulty classifiers for learners of Spanish as a foreign/second language (L2). The dataset contains 2,240 in-context target words with the corresponding difficulty judgements of 26 Dutch-speaking students who are learning Spanish as an L2, resulting in a ...
Degraeuwe, Jasper, Goethals, Patrick
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The contribution of prosody to foreign accent: A study of Spanish as a foreign language
Loquens, 2017 The aim of this study is to analyze the contribution of prosody on the perception of foreign accent by Brazilian learners of Spanish. The data were collected from 15 participants and a control group of 5 native Spanish speakers. A perceptual test was performed with two different speech styles (reading and storytelling) and with delexicalized and ...
Cristiane Conceição Silva +1 more
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Ideology, Access, and Status: Spanish-English Bilinguals in the Foreign-Language Classroom
Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature, 2016 Spanish language teaching in US higher education is today generally divided between ‘foreign language’ courses for novice learners and ‘heritage language’ courses for Hispanic/Latinx students with some knowledge of the language.
Michael E. Rolland
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The need for the presence, absence or alternation of the null subject in the Spanish language
مجلة الآداب, 2021 In this study we develop a didactic unit, in which we try to determine the cases in which the presence, absence and alternation of the null subject in the Spanish language will be necessary, the purpose of the work will be to support the task of the ...
Dr. Mowaffaq H. Mansi al-Shammari
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