Análisis contrastivo y cortesía: “¿El cómo se dice algo es más importante que lo que se dice?”
Politeness is considered to be a basic orientation in social relationships, it constitutes a significant feature of human behaviour and is connected to a variety of aspects of communication, e.g. gestures and kinesic aspects.
Silvia Betti
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Research on Corpus of Learners of Spanish as a Foreign Language
The present article bridges the acquisition of second languages and corpus linguistics. The creation of a corpus for the analysis of the use of Spanish by foreigners is a central part of the research of Spanish as a foreign language. If we compare the investigations of corpus compilations written in Spanish with the compilations in English, we will ...
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“I would like to speak more Spanish”: language attitudes and behaviors amongst Hispanics
This article reports the findings of a recent study which examined Spanish language maintenance attitudes and behaviors in a Hispanic church community in Western New York. The participants were 48 church members, aged 13 to 80 years.
Laura Guglani
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Spanish as a foreign language and digital storytelling: An intercultural approach
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Dramatization in teaching Spanish as a foreign language [PDF]
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Foreign Language Anxiety: A Study on Spanish Learners
Foreign language anxiety (FLA) as a crucial affective variable has been unexplored in the context of the Spanish language. This paper reports a study that investigated Spanish language anxiety (SLA) and its potential causes and inquired into the relationship between the role of a teacher and SLA. A mixed-methods research design was adopted, including a
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Foreign Language Learners Show a Kinematic Accent in Their Co-Speech Hand Movements. [PDF]
Bosker HR +4 more
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Enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom in Spanish learning: a study of Chinese university students. [PDF]
Zhou N, Liu Y.
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Native speakers are more likeable and knowledgeable, but foreign speakers are not bad: Disentangling language-based social preferences in early childhood. [PDF]
Zeng D, Hwang HG, Burke N, Woodward A.
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Shared and language-specific phonological processing in the human temporal lobe. [PDF]
Bhaya-Grossman I +6 more
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