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Toward A Theory Of Heritage Language Acquisition: Spanish In The United States, Andrew Lynch
Toward A Theory Of Heritage Language Acquisition: Spanish In The United States, Andrew Lynch
Andrew Lynch
The sociolinguistic realities of English and Spanish, at the national and world levels, have evolved in fundamental ways since the 1960s. Traditional theoretical models of language variation, bilingualism, and language shift in the US must be reconceptualized with the post-2000 context, and Spanish language educators must respond to the contemporary demands of their profession. In this essay, I give thought to the theoretical principles of Spanish heritage language acquisition in the US in the twenty-first century.
Exploring Turn At Talk In Spanish: Native And Nonnative Speaker Interactions, Andrew Lynch
Exploring Turn At Talk In Spanish: Native And Nonnative Speaker Interactions, Andrew Lynch
Andrew Lynch
This preliminary study highlights the demonstrated gains in conversational competence of three Spanish L2 learners who participated in a 10-week university immersion program. The analyses considered turn-taking and discourse structure, comparing the learners’ task-based conversational interactions in L2 Spanish with separate interactions in their L1 English and the interactions of a group of Spanish native speakers. Although the findings suggest that during the immersion experience the learners made gains in L2 conversational competence with respect to pausing and turn length, their development of turn-taking organization and discourse structure reflected an approximation to their own L1 behavioral norms rather than those …