Browsing by Author "Socarras, Gilda"

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Auditory Processing in Learners of Spanish as an L2: The Role of Redundancy

Berrios, Juan (2018-04-24)

The purpose of the study is to assess the effects of redundancy on global perception and comprehension in sentences, as well as the processing of the meaning of morphological markers by learners of Spanish as a second ...

Category Effects of Vocabulary Presentation in L2 Vocabulary Acquisition in Novice Learners

Wilcox, Amanda (2011-07-29)

Vocabulary learning is a crucial factor in second language acquisition (SLA), yet there is no consensus as to how to present vocabulary in a way that facilitates learning. Little theory and scant empirical evidence support ...

Cognate recognition

Aguinaga Echeverria, Silvia (2012-05-17)

This study is focused on cognate recognition. First, a new classification of cognates (English/Spanish) based on orthographic, phonological and semantic similarities between words have been proposed-identical, similar, and ...

The Effects of Animation and Cueing in the Acquisition of Spanish Vocabulary

Villegas, Alvaro (2008-08-15)

According to Paivio’s (1971, 2007) Dual Coding Theory (DCT), cognitive information is stored in two separate systems, the visual and the verbal system. Both are linked through cognitive connections that lead to better ...

El distanciamiento dialectal de Emilio Carballido en Orinoco: recuento sociolingüístico de una travesía literaria en Venezuela

Malave Gomez, Lilia (2017-07-27)

Emilio Carballido, destacado dramaturgo mexicano, rompió en 1979 su tradición literaria, fiel a la creación de personajes e historias con marcada expresión verbal mexicana: ese es el año en el que está fechada Orinoco, ...

Elizabeth Acevedo: Traducción e identidad

Garcia Burgos, Julia Lourdes (2022-05-10)

El objetivo de esta tesis es investigar la traducción de la obra literaria de Elizabeth Ace- vedo, poeta neoyorquina de origen dominicano nacida en 1988, así como el motivo de la enorme importancia de la realización de ...

Explicit and Implicit Instruction of Discourse Markers to Heritage Speakers of Spanish

Cuartero Marco, Marina (2019-04-22)

The controversy of using Explicit and Implicit Instruction is widely discussed in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). SLA research generally addresses more salient linguistic elements, than less noticeable ones, ...

L2 Auditory Processing of Three Spanish Dialects. Comprehensibility and its Relationship with Accentedness and Familiarity.

Trenta, Laura (2022-04-26)

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the impact on comprehensibility judgments – the difficulty that listeners perceive they have in understanding an utterance – in the auditory processing of three dialects of Spanish ...

A Word is Worth a Thousand Sentiments: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Use of Language as a Coping Mechanism in the Bilingual Works of Rosario Ferré, Luz María Umpierre-Herrera, and Judith Ortiz Cofer

Daves, Jessica (2013-04-08)

While much of the study of language as a coping mechanism has focused on private discourse, language can serve the same role when it is used in published creative writing intended for a public audience. This use of language ...