Development of grammar, vocabulary, and pragmatics in an additional language: insights from Spanish learner corpus research. (3rd July 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gudmestad, Aarnes
• Is Part Of: Journal of Spanish language teaching. Volume 9:Number 2(2022)
• Page Start: 161
• Page End: 173
• Publication Date: 2022-07-03
• Subjects: Vocabulary -- grammar -- pragmatics -- learners -- Spanish -- corpora; Vocabulario -- gramática -- pragmática -- aprendices -- español -- corpus; Spanish language -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 468
• DOI: 10.1080/23247797.2022.2157084
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2324-7797

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The current article offers an overview of scholarship on additional-language (e.g., second-language, heritage-language) users of Spanish that has been carried out using learner corpora in the last decade. I focus the review of Spanish learner corpus research on investigations that have examined grammar (e.g., fluency, grammatical gender), vocabulary (e.g., lexical diversity), and pragmatics (e.g., discourse markers), and I highlight the contributions that this body of work has made to the understanding of the use and development of additional-language Spanish. I also discuss the pedagogical applications that this line of inquiry may have. I conclude by identifying specific avenues for future work pertaining to research on additional-language learning and the development of new corpora.