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Publication details [#60777]

Hubert, Michael D. 2015. Avoidance behavior in US university Spanish-language instruction. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 25 (2) : 139–159.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

avoidance language | discourse strategy | foreign language acquisition | language use | writing

Language as a subject

Spanish

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This study tries to measure dodging behavior in communicative writing tasks amid US university students acquiring Spanish as a foreign language. It shows a lot of intentional, aware avoidance of the targeted grammatical forms of the preterit/imperfect and the subjunctive by the participants.