Critical Reflections on Data in Second Language Acquisition
Edited by Aarnes Gudmestad and Amanda Edmonds
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 51] 2018. ix, 231 pp.
Amanda Edmonds
List of John Benjamins publications for which Amanda Edmonds plays a role.
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Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition
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2023 Chapter 9. The variable use of first-person-singular subject forms during an academic year abroad Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish, Zahler, Sara L., Avizia Y. Long and Bret Linford (eds.), pp. 266–290 | Chapter
The goal of the current study was to investigate the variable use and development of first-person-singular subject forms in additional-language Spanish before and at the end of an academic year in Spain. Our data came from the LANGSNAP corpus (http://langsnap.soton.ac.uk). We examined oral… read more
2022 Chapter 7. The non-default gender category in additional-language French The Acquisition of Gender: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Ayoun, Dalila (ed.), pp. 157–182 | Chapter
Whereas much research has examined the acquisition of grammatical gender in additional-language French, previous studies have all focused on targetlikeness. In other words, previous research reveals how accurate learners are in expressing gender and what factors may play a role in accuracy. Such… read more
2019 Le développement de l’expression du genre grammatical en français L2: Les cas de chose, famille, maison, nourriture et vie Language, Interaction and Acquisition 10:2, pp. 229–254 | Article
Les recherches portant sur l’acquisition de l’expression du genre grammatical en français langue seconde (L2) nous montrent, entre autres, que les apprenants réussissent plus souvent à marquer le genre avec un nom masculin (vs. un nom féminin) et sur les déterminants plutôt que sur les adjectifs. read more
2018 Gender marking in written L2 French: Before, during, and after residence abroad Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 3:1, pp. 58–83 | Article
The aim of this study was to examine how a group of 20 learners of second-language French express gender marking in three written tasks administered over the course of 21 months, including an academic year abroad. All full nouns modified by either a determiner or an adjective overtly marked for… read more
2018 Chapter 5. Operationalizing variables: The case of future-time expression in additional-language French Critical Reflections on Data in Second Language Acquisition, Gudmestad, Aarnes and Amanda Edmonds (eds.), pp. 125–148 | Chapter
In the field of second language acquisition (SLA), the importance of and the challenges associated with data-coding decisions often go unaddressed. And yet the operationalization of variables ultimately determines our capacity to both enter into dialogue with previous research and to address new… read more
2018 Introduction Critical Reflections on Data in Second Language Acquisition, Gudmestad, Aarnes and Amanda Edmonds (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Chapter
2015 What the present can tell us about the future: A variationist analysis of future-time expression in native and nonnative French The Morphological Expression of Temporality on the Verb in French as a Second Language / L’expression morphologique de la temporalité sur le verbe en français langue seconde, Leclercq, Pascale and Martin Howard (eds.), pp. 15–41 | Article
This investigation studies the second language (L2) development of variable future-time expression in French. One hundred and eighteen nonnative speakers at four proficiency levels and 30 native speakers completed a written-contextualized task (WCT), a language-proficiency test and a background… read more
2006 The Diachronic Development of a French Indefinite Pronoun: Comparing Chacun to Auncun New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. I: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics, Nishida, Chiyo and Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil (eds.), pp. 83 ff. | Article
Both Modern French quantifiers and the Modern French Determiner Phrase have been the focus of numerous analyses. The current study is a diachronic contribution to this literature, focusing on the development of one universal quantifier—chacun “each”—from 1100 through 1925. Old and Middle French… read more