The Handbook of Spanish Second Language Acquisition

by Kimberly L. Geeslin (Editor)

Overview

Bringing together a comprehensive collection of newly-commissioned articles, this Handbook covers the most recent developments across a range of sub-fields relevant to the study of second language Spanish.

• Provides a unique and much-needed collection of new research in this subject, compiled and written by experts in the field
• Offers a critical account of the most current, ground-breaking developments across key fields, each of which has seen innovative empirical research in the past decade
• Covers a broad range of issues including current theoretical approaches, alongside a variety of entries within such areas as the sound system, morphosyntax, individual and social factors, and instructed language learning
• Presents a variety of methodological approaches spanning the active areas of research in language acquisition

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118584439
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	09/24/2013
Series:	Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	576
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Kimberly L. Geeslin is Professor at Indiana University, USA. Her research focuses on second language Spanish (SLA) and the intersection of SLA and sociolinguistics. She has published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition; Language Learning; Hispania; Spanish in Context; Bilingualism: Language and Cognition; Journal of Applied Linguistics; Linguistics; and Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics.

Read an Excerpt

Click to read or download

Table of Contents

List of Figures vii

List of Tables ix

Notes on Contributors xi

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction 1

Part I Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Second Language Spanish 9

1 Corpus-based Research in Second Language Spanish 11
AMAYA MENDIKOETXEA

2 Functional Approaches to Second Language Spanish 30
EVE ZYZIK

3 Generative Approaches to Spanish Second Language Acquisition 46
JASON ROTHMAN AND DIEGO PASCUAL Y CABO

4 Psycholinguistic Approaches to Second Language Spanish 64
MARGARET GILLON DOWENS AND MANUEL CARREIRAS

5 Variationist Approaches to Second Language Spanish 80
AARNES GUDMESTAD

6 Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Second Language Spanish 96
TERESA CADIERNO AND ALBERTO HIJAZO-GASC6N

Part II Phonology in Second Language Spanish 111

7 Voice Onset Time in Second Language Spanish 113
MARY L. ZAMPINI

8 Speech Perception in Second Language Spanish 130
POLINA VASILIEV AND PAOLA ESCUDERO

9 Segmental Phonology in Second Language Spanish 146
MANUEL DIAZ-CAMPOS

10 Suprasegmental Phenomena in Second Language Spanish 166
NICHOLAS HENRIKSEN

Part III Developing Grammars in Second Language Spanish 183

11 Object Pronouns in Second Language Spanish 185
PAUL A. MALOVRH

12 Grammatical Gender in Second Language Spanish 202
IRMA ALARC6N

13 The Acquisition of the Copula Contrast in Second Language Spanish 219
KIMBERLY L. GEESLIN

14 Tense and Aspect in Second Language Spanish 235
LLOREN? COMAJOAN COLOME

15 Subject Pronouns in Second Language Spanish 253
MARGARET LUBBERS QUESADA

16 Subjunctive in Second Language Spanish 270
JOSEPH COLLENTINE

17 Word Order in Second Language Spanish 287
CRIST6BAL LOZANO

18 Meaning in Second Language Spanish 311
ROUMYANA SLABAKOVA

19 Language in Context 331
RACHEL L. SHIVELY

Part IV Individual and Social Factors in Second Language Spanish 351

20 Ultimate Attainment in Spanish L2 Acquisition 353
SIL VINA MONTRUL

21 Affective Factors and Second Language Spanish 369
DOLLY JESUSITA YOUNG

22 Study Abroad and Second Language Spanish 386
BARBARA A. LAFFORD AND IZABELA USCINSKI

23 Heritage Learners of Spanish 404
KIM POTOWSKI

24 Comparing Second Language Learners to Other Populations 423
ANA TERESA P£REZ-LEROUX AND DANIELLE THOMAS

Part V Acquisition in the Second Language Spanish Classroom 447

25 Acquisition of Grammar by Instructed Learners 449
ROBERT DEKEYSER AND GORETTI PRIETO BOTANA

26 Acquisition of Reading in Second Language Spanish 466
CINDY BRANTMEIER

27 Acquisition of Writing in Second Language Spanish 482
MARLY NAS AND KEES VAN ESCH

28 Exploring Lexical Diversity in Second Language Spanish 498
GABRIELA CASTANEDA-JIMENEZ AND SCOTT JARVIS

29 Teaching Pronunciation in Second Language Spanish 514
GILLIAN LORD AND MARIA I. FIONDA

30 Instructor Characteristics and Classroom-Based SLA of Spanish 530
LAURA GURZYNSKI-WEISS

Index 547