Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish
Edited by Sara L. Zahler, Avizia Y. Long and Bret Linford
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 37] 2023. xxi, 371 pp.
Sara L. Zahler
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sara L. Zahler plays a role.
Title
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
2024 Chapter 6. The present progressive as a future marker in Spanish, English, and Spanish in contact with English Recent Developments in Hispanic Linguistics: Studies in structure, variation, and bilingualism, Gradoville, Michael and Sean McKinnon (eds.), pp. 153–173 | Chapter
We examined the acceptance of the present progressive (e.g., I am traveling) with future meaning (PPF) by 82 monolingual English, monolingual Spanish, and heritage Spanish speakers. Participants evaluated on a scale of 1–5 the acceptability of the PPF in 20 contexts that were embedded in a… read more
2023 Chapter 9. Individual differences do not affect trill variation by advanced learners of Spanish Innovative Approaches to Research in Hispanic Linguistics: Regional, diachronic, and learner profile variation, Fernández Cuenca, Sara, Tiffany Judy and Lauren Miller (eds.), pp. 196–224 | Chapter
The current study analyzed whether variation in trill pronunciation by advanced learners of Spanish is conditioned by individual differences in phonological short-term memory, executive working memory, second language vocabulary score, and years of study, as well as five linguistic variables. We… read more
2023 Chapter 11. Learning context and the development of second language Spanish: Past-time perfective marking at home and abroad Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish, Zahler, Sara L., Avizia Y. Long and Bret Linford (eds.), pp. 321–349 | Chapter
This study examines the variation between the preterit and present perfect among 43 learners studying abroad in Chile and Spain. We compared their results to those of 105 Spanish learners in the at-home university context to determine whether our learners approached regional norms or if they… read more
2023 Introduction Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish, Zahler, Sara L., Avizia Y. Long and Bret Linford (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Chapter
2022 The role of phonological short-term memory in second language phonology: Exploring vowel quality among English-speaking learners of Spanish Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 35:1, pp. 173–205 | Article
This study reports on the production of the five Spanish vowels in stressed and unstressed contexts by English-speaking advanced learners of Spanish at two experience levels who differed according to phonological short-term memory (PSTM) capacity. Our findings indicate that learners with higher… read more
2018 Acquisition, study abroad and individual differences: The case of subject pronoun variation in L2 Spanish Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 3:2, pp. 243–274 | Article
The current study examines the combined effect of type and quantity of contact with the target language on the second language development of a variable structure, ‘subject pronoun expression’ in L2 Spanish. A written contextualized task and a language contact questionnaire were given to 26… read more
2016 The future is in the past: A diachronic analysis of variable future-in-the-past expression in Spanish Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics: From theory to empirical evidence, Cuza, Alejandro, Lori Czerwionka and Daniel Olson (eds.), pp. 317–334 | Article
This study examines variation in Spanish future-in-the-past expression across six centuries in order to determine if this variation parallels canonical future variation diachronically. Future-in-the-past tokens in the conditional (e.g., iría “would go”) and imperfect go-periphrasis (e.g., iba a ir… read more