Acquisition of Spanish Gender Agreement in Two Learning Contexts: Study Abroad and at Home

Autor/in	Isabelli-Garcia, Christina
Titel	Acquisition of Spanish Gender Agreement in Two Learning Contexts: Study Abroad and at Home
Quelle	In: Foreign Language Annals, 43 (2010) 2, S.289-303 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0015-718X
Schlagwörter	Nouns; Social Behavior; Form Classes (Languages); Grammar; Study Abroad; Spanish; Pretests Posttests; Comparative Analysis; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Language Tests; Language Research; College Students; Higher Education; Language Proficiency; Spain; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Analytischer Sprachbau; Grammatik; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Spanisch; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Language test; Sprachtest; Sprachforschung; Collegestudent; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Spanien; USA
Abstract	The goal of this study is to describe the acquisition rate for gender acquisition in Spanish and to show whether individual variability and language contact may affect this rate. The participants were intermediate second language Spanish (first language English) learners in the study abroad and at-home contexts over a 4-month period. The participants received grammaticality judgment tests coded for morphological class of the modified noun as well as attributive and predicative adjectives. Data were also collected on social behavior and language contact in Spanish and English in order to explain data outcome. The findings suggest that no difference exists between the two learning contexts and that social behavior and language contact abroad have minimal influence on acquisition rate. (Contains 2 notes and 7 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10