17.266, Books: Applied Ling/Lang Acquisition, Spanish: Fairclough

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Date: 25-Jan-2006
From: Kerstin Schwartz < k.schwartz at iberoamericanalibros.com >
Subject: Spanish and Heritage Language Education in the United States:
Fairclough 

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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:27:54
From: Kerstin Schwartz < k.schwartz at iberoamericanalibros.com >
Subject: Spanish and Heritage Language Education in the United States: Fairclough 

Title: Spanish and Heritage Language Education in the United States 
Subtitle: Struggling with hypotheticals. 
Series Title: Lengua y Sociedad en el Mundo Hispánico, 12  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: Iberoamericana / Vervuert Verlag
	   http://www.ibero-americana.net

Book URL: http://www.ibero-americana.net/cgi-bin/infodetail.cgi?isbn=3865271545&doknr=31154&lang=en&txt 

Author: Marta Fairclough, University of Houston

Paperback: ISBN: 3865271545 Pages: 164 Price: Europe EURO 19.80

Abstract:

This book examines the effects of formal instruction on the
learning/acquisition of standard Spanish by Hispanic heritage learners
attending intermediate and advance level courses at the University of
Houston. Using a variationist framework of correlating linguistic features
with social variables, the book analyzes the expression of conditionality
(i.e., hypothetical discourse) in a corpus of heritage learners' speech and
written data. Another corpus compiled from traditional foreign language
students of Spanish is used for comparison. The study addresses four major
questions: 

(1) What are the main differences between Hispanic heritage learners and
traditional foreign language students of Spanish when learning the
standard/academic variety of Spanish? 
(2) Are there significant differences among different production tasks
among the heritage learners? 
(3) Is second dialect acquisition an additive process? 
(4) How effective is explicit grammar instruction for second dialect
acquisition? 

A comprehensive summary of Hispanic heritage language education in the U.S.
is included, and pedagogical implications are suggested based on the findings. 

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Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Spanish (spa)

Written In: English  (eng)

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