Rosa Alonso Alonso

List of John Benjamins publications for which Rosa Alonso Alonso plays a role.

Title

Speaking in a Second Language

Edited by Rosa Alonso Alonso

[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 17] 2018. xii, 243 pp.
Subjects Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
This study analyses how speakers of two typologically distinct first languages (English (N = 12) and Spanish (N = 16)) and a group of 19 Spanish second language learners of English express boundary-crossing events, what type of verb they use, and how they segment these motion events. The stimuli… read more
This chapter analyses the interpretation of boundary-crossing events in second language acquisition (SLA) to determine whether L2 learners are able to select the target-like option for the interpretation of motion events or whether, on the contrary, their choice reflects cross-linguistic influence… read more
Alonso, Rosa Alonso 2018 Chapter 10. Speaking in a second language: Where are we now?Speaking in a Second Language, Alonso, Rosa Alonso (ed.), pp. 225–240 | Chapter
This concluding chapter presents an overview of the speaking skill in the history of language teaching from the Grammar Translation Method to current Task-based Approach. It then moves on to the role of speaking in current usage-based perspectives, which view language as a social activity and… read more
This paper analyses the interpretation of boundary-crossing events in second language acquisition (SLA) to determine whether L2 learners are able to select the target-like option for the interpretation of motion events or whether, on the contrary, their choice reflects cross-linguistic influence… read more