Speaking in a Second Language
Edited by Rosa Alonso Alonso
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 17] 2018. xii, 243 pp.
Rosa Alonso Alonso
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rosa Alonso Alonso plays a role.
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Subjects Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
2020 Boundary-crossing events across languages: A study on English speakers, Spanish speakers and second language learners Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:2, pp. 316–349 | Article
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
2018 Cross-linguistic influence in the interpretation of boundary-crossing events in L2 acquisition Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology, Piquer-Píriz, Ana M. and Rafael Alejo-González (eds.), pp. 157–178 | Article
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
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
2016 Cross-linguistic influence in the interpretation of boundary crossing events in L2 acquisition Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology, Piquer-Píriz, Ana M. and Rafael Alejo-González (eds.), pp. 161–182 | Article
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