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Comprehending and Speaking about Motion in L2 Spanish

A Case of Implicit Learning in Anglophones

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Authors:
  1. Samuel A. Navarro Ortega

    1. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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  • Demonstrates how subtle aspects of Spanish can successfully be learned in the absence of direct teacher instruction
  • Contributes to an under-researched area in cognitive semantics that crosses into the field of language teaching and learning
  • Connects theoretical issues about the comprehension and expression of a conceptual category by Anglophone learners at three distinct levels of L2 proficiency

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Samuel A. Navarro Ortega
    Pages 1-26

  3. The Linguistic Expression of Motion in Language

    • Samuel A. Navarro Ortega
    Pages 27-53

  4. Motion-Event Descriptions a Recurrent Topic in Spanish Discourse

    • Samuel A. Navarro Ortega
    Pages 55-70

  5. Motion Events in the Speech + Gesture Interface

    • Samuel A. Navarro Ortega
    Pages 71-89

  6. Investigating Learner Sensitivity to the Path Conflation in L2 Spanish

    • Samuel A. Navarro Ortega
    Pages 91-99

  7. Sensitivity to the Path Conflation in Written L2 Spanish

    • Samuel A. Navarro Ortega
    Pages 101-130

  8. Sensitivity to the Path Conflation in Oral L2 Spanish

    • Samuel A. Navarro Ortega
    Pages 131-185

  9. Conclusion

    • Samuel A. Navarro Ortega
    Pages 187-203

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 205-231
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About this book

This book presents a novel analysis of the learning of motion event descriptions by Anglophone students of Spanish. The author examines cross-linguistic differences between English and Spanish, focusing on the verbal patterns of motion events, to explore how learners overcome an entrenched first-language preference to move toward the lexicalization pattern of the additional language. His findings highlight the gradual nonlinear process Anglophones traverse to acquire and produce form-meaning mappings describing motion in Spanish. The author suggests that as motion event descriptions are not normally the focus of explicit instruction, students learn this concept primarily from exposure to Spanish. Given its interdisciplinary nature, this book will be of interest to researchers working in Hispanic linguistics, cognitive semantics, and Spanish language learning and teaching.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Samuel A. Navarro Ortega

About the author

Samuel A. Navarro Ortega is Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Comprehending and Speaking about Motion in L2 Spanish

  • Book Subtitle: A Case of Implicit Learning in Anglophones

  • Authors: Samuel A. Navarro Ortega

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49307-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49306-0Published: 06 February 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84128-1Published: 22 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49307-7Published: 28 January 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 231

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Applied Linguistics, Romance Languages, Psycholinguistics, Lexicology/Vocabulary, Semantics, Language Education

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