Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our
knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has …

A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish has been fully revised and updated, including over 500
new entries, making it an invaluable resource for students of Spanish. Based on a new web …

This article presents the Spanish adaptation of the Affective Norms for English Words
(ANEW; Bradley & Lang, 1999). The norms are based on 720 participants' assessments of …

This paper presents AnCora, a multilingual corpus annotated at different linguistic levels
consisting of 500,000 words in Catalan (AnCora-Ca) and in Spanish (AnCora-Es). At …

Estudios recientes han mostrado que las estimaciones de frecuencia de las palabras
obtenidas de los subtítulos de películas y series de televisión predicen mejor los resultados …

This work presents a new set of 360 high quality colour images belonging to 23 semantic
subcategories. Two hundred and thirty-six Spanish speakers named the items and also …

The response to intervention (RTI) of English language learners identified as at risk for
reading difficulties in the fall of first grade was examined at the end of first grade and at the …

A first-grade reading and language development intervention for English language learners
(Spanish/English) at risk for reading difficulties was examined. The intervention was …

The effectiveness of an explicit, systematic reading intervention for first-grade students
whose home language was Spanish and who were at risk for reading difficulties was …

We show that the frequency of word use is not only determined by the word length [1] and
the average information content [2], but also by its emotional content. We have analyzed …