This book is about the acquisition of Spanish in a monolingual and in a bilingual situation by
children during the years of primary linguistic development, and as a second/foreign …

In this paper, we present an analysis of the language practices of four Spanish/English dual
language (DL) preschool teachers, focusing on the ways in which the teachers mediate …

Second language acquisition (SLA) research has traditionally relied on elicited experimental
data, and it has disfavoured natural language use data. Learner corpus research has the …

La presente exposición constituye una reseña bibliográfica de estudios que han aplicado la
teoría sociocutural a la investigación de la adquisición de español como segunda lengua …

I provide an update on the state of the art of the research—the last one being Collentine
(2003)—on the acquisition of the function of the subjunctive and mood selection, as well as …

Based on an extended ethnographic study of a dual language (Spanish-English)
kindergarten, this book takes a critical look at children's linguistic (and non-linguistic) …

This article adds to the growing body of research focused on second-language (L2) variation
and constitutes the first large-scale study of the production of potentially variable …

The contribution of Spanish to the field of SLA continues to grow (Lafford & Salaberry 2003;
Montrul 2004), and the need for good L2 Spanish datasets is becoming increasingly evident …

There is presently a lively debate in second language (L2) acquisition research as to
whether (adult) learners can acquire linguistic phenomena located at the interface between …

Manipulating cognitive demands on second language (L2) tasks, along with the provision of
recasts and its effects on L2 development, has motivated recent inquiry within task-based …