Advancedness in Second Language Spanish: Definitions, challenges, and possibilities
Edited by Mandy R. Menke and Paul A. Malovrh
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 31] 2021. x, 512 pp.
Mandy R. Menke
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mandy R. Menke plays a role.
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Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Romance linguistics
2021 Chapter 21. Looking ahead: Future directions for research on advancednesss and instructional practice in second language Spanish Advancedness in Second Language Spanish: Definitions, challenges, and possibilities, Menke, Mandy R. and Paul A. Malovrh (eds.), pp. 489–502 | Chapter
The present concluding chapter provides an overview of the main results yielded by the empirical research included in the present volume. It further explores our understanding of advanced proficiency in Spanish as a second/foreign language by identifying challenges in defining advancedness, as… read more
2021 Chapter 5. The role of late-acquired structures in advanced oral proficiency: A consideration of complexity and variability as indicators of development Advancedness in Second Language Spanish: Definitions, challenges, and possibilities, Menke, Mandy R. and Paul A. Malovrh (eds.), pp. 95–114 | Chapter
The present chapter focuses on one aspect of Byrnes & Ortega’s (2008) description of advancedness; it considers the notion of structural command, not merely in terms of accuracy, but also the multifunctional use of late-acquired complex structures, which we assert provides another window through… read more
2021 Chapter 11. Linguistic markers of stance in advanced second language Spanish academic writing Advancedness in Second Language Spanish: Definitions, challenges, and possibilities, Menke, Mandy R. and Paul A. Malovrh (eds.), pp. 245–272 | Chapter
Written academic texts allow for the observation of advanced capacities as writers must negotiate identities in order to position their claims within a disciplinary community. The construct of stance focuses on how a writer stamps her/his personal authority on a text. This chapter reports on how… read more
2021 Phonological development in Spanish immersion: A comparison of programmatic context Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 9:1, pp. 112–144 | Article
Studies of lexical and syntactic development in immersion programs are numerous, yet phonological development has received much less attention. This study compares the pronunciation of English home language students in one-way and two-way Spanish immersion programs across three sound classes:… read more
2021 Chapter 1. The problematic pursuit of defining advancedness Advancedness in Second Language Spanish: Definitions, challenges, and possibilities, Menke, Mandy R. and Paul A. Malovrh (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter
The introductory chapter establishes the need for the present volume by providing an overview of the main foci of previous research in SLA examining advanced proficiency, and by identifying various lacunae in the data base of what we know. We provide a description of the volume’s structure,… read more
2021 Chapter 2. The (limited) contributions of proficiency assessments in defining advancedness Advancedness in Second Language Spanish: Definitions, challenges, and possibilities, Menke, Mandy R. and Paul A. Malovrh (eds.), pp. 17–40 | Chapter
Standardized proficiency tests are the primary means of determining advancedness in educational settings and have effectively established a common language for describing language proficiency. Emerging evidence additionally identifies specific linguistic features that correlate with each level;… read more
2018 Chapter 11. Voice onset time and the child foreign language learner of Spanish Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015, MacDonald, Jonathan E. (ed.), pp. 237–258 | Chapter
Stop consonants are one of the most investigated sound classes in second language speech production studies. Robust age of acquisition effects are documented in the literature base; however, the advantage of early learners has been primarily documented in second language, not foreign language,… read more
2017 Phonological development in two-way bilingual immersion: The case of Spanish vowels Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 3:1, pp. 80–108 | Article
In spite of the well-documented advantage of an early age of acquisition, findings from one-way (foreign language) immersion programs suggest that this instructional context is insufficient for acquisition of nativelike articulations by child foreign language learners. It has been suggested that… read more