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T1 Exploring grammatical gender acquisition in L2 Spanish: Difficulties and didactic recommendations
A1 Ogneva, Anastasiia
A1 Gómez Carrero, Tamara
K1 Second language acquisition
K1 Grammatical gender
K1 Didactic recommendations
K1 Género gramatical
K1 Recomendaciones didácticas
K1 57 Lingüística
AB This chapter compares gender assignment of real Spanish nouns by second language learners (L1 English n=26, L1 Russian n=26) and by native Spanish speakers (n=26). Participants completes an acceptability  judgement task with 40 sentences with Spanish determiner phrases wich were grammatical or ungrammatical, with masculine and feminine nouns with transparent or opaque endings. Our resulst show that (1) the L1 Russian group is more sensitive to gender incongruencies than the L1 English group, suggesting that the presence of grammatical gender in the L1 facilitates the perception of gender inconguencies; and that (2) noun morphology facilitates gender acquisition in L2 Spanish, as both groups of participants rated non-matching determiner phrases with transparent noun more accurately than opaque nouns. Based on the results os this study, this work also provides didactic recommendations in order to improve the teaching of grammatical gender for learners of Spanish as a second language (L2).
PB Peter Lang
SN 978-3-631-90315-5
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/67419
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/67419
LA eng
NO Ogneva, Anastasiia & Gómez Carrero, Tamara (2024). Exploring grammatical gender acquisition in L2 Spanish: Difficulties and didactic recommendations. En Montoya-Reyes, Ana, Barsaglini-Castro, Anabella & Sánchez-Barreiro, Estefanía (Eds.) A Multidisciplinary Approach to Applied Linguistics and Education: Building Knowledge in Foreign Language Teaching, Translation, Critical Discourse Analysis and Posthumanism. Peter Lang, pp. 61-81.
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 20-oct-2024