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Aural Processing of Cognates in Learners of Spanish as a Second Language 

Garrido Pozú, Juan José (2018-04-24)
The present study investigates the role of phonology in the aural processing of cognates in learners of Spanish as a second language. First, this thesis expands on the body of research on cognate processing to include the ...

Developing Teaching Materials for Spanish Heritage Speakers with Hearing Loss 

Manteca Gacho, Cristina (2022-04-27)
The purpose of this thesis is to address the challenges of teaching gender agreement to Heritage Speakers (HS) of Spanish with a mild, moderate, and moderately-severe hearing loss. I discuss a series of combined approaches ...

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 ...

Tense, Aspect, and Mood in the Spanish of Southern Arizona 

Zurita Moreno, Irene (2018-04-23)
In this study I analyze the use of the Spanish verbal system in the Heritage Spanish speakers of Southern Arizona across three sociolinguistic generations. By using 15 oral interviews from the Corpus of Spanish in Southern ...