Nausica Marcos
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nausica Marcos plays a role.
Articles
2020 What derivational suffixes should we teach in Spanish as a Second Language courses? Hispanic Linguistics: Current issues and new directions, Morales-Front, Alfonso, Michael J. Ferreira, Ronald P. Leow and Cristina Sanz (eds.), pp. 75–94 | Chapter
Morphological awareness in a second language (L2) enhances depth of vocabulary knowledge and is better developed when taught explicitly than by mere exposure to morphologically complex words. However, suffixes are not sufficiently treated in L2 textbooks, and little is known about which suffixes… read more
2018 Analyzing the relationship and development of proficiency, derivational knowledge, and vocabulary size in Spanish L2 learners Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 31:1, pp. 224–256 | Article
One dimension of knowing a word is recognizing its structure. Previous research, mostly on L2 English, has revealed a close link between derivational knowledge (DK) and vocabulary size. Nevertheless, the degree of the relationship as well as the effect of the learner’s L1 vary among these… read more