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Comprehending and Speaking About Motion in L2 Spanish
Samuel A Navarro Ortega
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Description for Comprehending and Speaking About Motion in L2 Spanish
Hardback. Num Pages: 231 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 9 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; CFD; CFGA; CJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 452.
This book presents a novel analysis of the learning of motion event descriptions by Anglophone students of Spanish. The author examines cross-linguistic differences between English and Spanish, focusing on the verbal patterns of motion events, to explore how learners overcome an entrenched first-language preference to move toward the lexicalization pattern of the additional language. His findings highlight the gradual nonlinear process Anglophones traverse to acquire and produce form-meaning mappings describing motion in Spanish. The author suggests that as motion event descriptions are not normally the focus of explicit instruction, students learn this concept primarily from exposure to Spanish. Given its ... Read more
This book presents a novel analysis of the learning of motion event descriptions by Anglophone students of Spanish. The author examines cross-linguistic differences between English and Spanish, focusing on the verbal patterns of motion events, to explore how learners overcome an entrenched first-language preference to move toward the lexicalization pattern of the additional language. His findings highlight the gradual nonlinear process Anglophones traverse to acquire and produce form-meaning mappings describing motion in Spanish. The author suggests that as motion event descriptions are not normally the focus of explicit instruction, students learn this concept primarily from exposure to Spanish. Given its ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
Number of Pages
231
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319493060
SKU
V9783319493060
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About Samuel A Navarro Ortega
Samuel A. Navarro Ortega is Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
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