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 …

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) …

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 …

This introduction provides an overview of the intersection between Applied Cognitive
Linguistics and Second/Foreign Language Learning. First, the relevance of Cognitive …

The purpose of this article is to briefly describe the design and piloting of a branched, online
placement and credit examination that measures receptive as well as productive and …

The Spanish mood contrast is a good test case for research on acquiring form-meaning
connections in contexts where input is variable and multiple areas of the grammar are …

As a major international language with approximately 400 million speakers (Lewis 2009),
Spanish is nowadays studied all over the world. The number of students of L2 Spanish is …