LINGUIST List 17.266

Thu Jan 26 2006

Books: Applied Ling/Lang Acquisition, Spanish: Fairclough

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Directory         1.    Kerstin Schwartz, Spanish and Heritage Language Education in the United States: Fairclough

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Message 1: Spanish and Heritage Language Education in the United States: Fairclough
Date: 25-Jan-2006
From: Kerstin Schwartz <k.schwartziberoamericanalibros.com>
Subject: Spanish and Heritage Language Education in the United States: Fairclough


Title: Spanish and Heritage Language Education in the United States Subtitle: Struggling with hypotheticals. Series Title: Lengua y Sociedad en el Mundo Hispánico, 12 Published: 2005 Publisher: Iberoamericana / Vervuert Verlag
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Book URL: http://www.ibero-americana.net/cgi-bin/infodetail.cgi?isbn=3865271545&doknr=31154&lang=en&txt

Author: Marta Fairclough, University of Houston Paperback: ISBN: 3865271545 Pages: 164 Price: Europe EURO 19.80
Abstract:

This book examines the effects of formal instruction on thelearning/acquisition of standard Spanish by Hispanic heritage learnersattending intermediate and advance level courses at the University ofHouston. Using a variationist framework of correlating linguistic featureswith social variables, the book analyzes the expression of conditionality(i.e., hypothetical discourse) in a corpus of heritage learners' speech andwritten data. Another corpus compiled from traditional foreign languagestudents of Spanish is used for comparison. The study addresses four majorquestions:

(1) What are the main differences between Hispanic heritage learners andtraditional foreign language students of Spanish when learning thestandard/academic variety of Spanish?(2) Are there significant differences among different production tasksamong the heritage learners?(3) Is second dialect acquisition an additive process?(4) How effective is explicit grammar instruction for second dialectacquisition?

A comprehensive summary of Hispanic heritage language education in the U.S.is included, and pedagogical implications are suggested based on the findings.

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Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics                             Language Acquisition
Subject Language(s): English (eng)                             Spanish (spa)
Written In: English (eng )

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