Pragmatic Instruction May Not Be Necessary among Heritage Speakers of Spanish: A Study on Requests

Autor/inn/en	Barros García, María J.; Bachelor, Jeremy W.
Titel	Pragmatic Instruction May Not Be Necessary among Heritage Speakers of Spanish: A Study on Requests
Quelle	3 (2018) 1, S.163-193 (31 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Pragmatics; Spanish; Heritage Education; Second Language Instruction; Transfer of Training; Oral Language; Written Language; Interference (Language); English (Second Language); Teaching Methods; Comparative Analysis; Scores; Pretests Posttests; Statistical Analysis; Intervention; North American English; Second Language Learning; College Students; Control Groups; Experimental Groups; Language Tests; Cloze Procedure + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pragmalinguistik; Spanisch; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Geschriebene Sprache; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Statistische Analyse; Amerikanisches Englisch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Collegestudent; Language test; Sprachtest; Lückentext
Abstract	This paper studies the pragmatic competence of U.S. heritage speakers of Spanish in an attempt to determine (a) the degree of pragmatic transfer from English to Spanish experienced by heritage speakers when producing different types of requests in Spanish; and (b) how to best teach pragmatics to students of Spanish as a Heritage Language (SHL). Additionally, the study compared the differences and similarities between the development of the pragmatic competence in SHL students and in students of Spanish as a second language (L2). Oral and written discourse completion tasks were used to assess requests in Spanish HL/L2 pragmatics. The results indicate that the pragmatic interventions only helped the Spanish L2 group, and that the Spanish HL group was already aware of the pragmatic principles that regulate requests in Spanish. Furthermore, no cases of negative pragmatic transfer were found in the Spanish HL data, so the study concluded that there is no need to teach heritage students pragmatic norms. (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01