Subjunctive Accuracy and Metalinguistic Knowledge of L2 Learners of Spanish.

Autor/in	Correa, Maite
Titel	Subjunctive Accuracy and Metalinguistic Knowledge of L2 Learners of Spanish.
Quelle	In: Electronic journal of foreign language teaching, 8 (2011) 1, S. 39-56 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Abbildungen 3; Literaturangaben; Tabellen 9
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0219-9874
Schlagwörter	Fremdsprachenunterricht; Spanischunterricht; Angewandte Linguistik; Konjunktiv; Angewandte Linguistik; Konjunktiv; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Spanischunterricht
Abstract	One of the most controversial topics in Applied Linguistics is the role of learners' metalinguistic knowledge (MK) in foreign language acquisition. There seems to be no agreement between those who propose that MK is at least facilitative for learning (Schmidt, 1990; Ellis & Laporte, 1997; Lightbown, 1998; Herdina & Jessner, 2000) and those who believe that it can be detrimental (Felix, 1981; Krashen & Terrell, 1983; Stokes & Krashen, 1990). This paper investigates the relationship between MK (understood as a combination of terminology knowledge and explicit, verbalizable knowledge of grammatical rules) and subjunctive accuracy by learners of Spanish at three levels. MK was assessed through a set of four terminology and grammaticality judgment tasks both in English and Spanish, whereas mastery of the Spanish subjunctive was evaluated through a set of five receptive and productive tasks. Findings include 1) improvements in both subjunctive accuracy in Spanish and MK in Spanish and English across levels, 2) a positive correlation between English MK and Spanish MK, and 3) a positive correlation between MK and accuracy in the use of the subjunctive. These findings show that MK indeed is positively correlated with accuracy in the use of this challenging structure as hypothesized. (Verlag).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2022/2