A corpus-based study on the misspellings of Spanish heritage learners and their implications for teaching

Beaudrie, Sara M.

doi:10.1016/j.linged.2011.09.001

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“…This is commonly seen as the cause of HL learners' tendency to not include written accent marks as well. In a corpus-based study on the orthographic proficiency of HL users of Spanish, Beaudrie (2012b) finds that written accent marks are the most frequently occurring error. She explains that written accent mark placement in Spanish is a hard aspect to master because it requires not only a command of orthographic rules, but also of prosody, part of which deals with syllable stress.…”

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Research on Heritage Spanish Phonetics and Phonology: Pedagogical and Curricular Implications

Rao

Kuder

2016

J. New Approaches Educ. Res.

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This paper creates a novel link between research on linguistics and education by discussing what we know about the sound system of heritage language users of Spanish and how these findings can inform practices implemented in heritage Spanish courses in the USA. First, we provide an overview of terminology associated with heritage language research, situating heritage Spanish programs within the educational context of the USA, and explaining why heritage Spanish phonetics and phonology remain relatively unexplored. Next, we delve into previous linguistic research on the heritage Spanish sound system in terms of individual vowels and consonants, as well as at the level of intonation, rhythm, and stress, while highlighting any observed differences between the system of heritage Spanish and those of Spanish speakers of other backgrounds. Finally, motivated by the phonetic/phonological insight of previous work, in addition to existing pedagogical and curricular research on heritage Spanish, we consider how and why the inclusion of specific types of soundsystem-based commentary and practice in the educational experience of heritage users of Spanish could be beneficial.

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Research on Heritage Spanish Phonetics and Phonology: Pedagogical and Curricular Implications

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Kuder

2016

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“…One of the causes for typical errors derives from English transfer errors such as vowel misspellings, since English has a broader vowel system (Beaudrie, 2012;Tapfer, 2013). However, Lord (2002) claims that there are similarities in English and Spanish such as marking the primary accent in the last three syllables that does not make accentuation particularly difficult for them to acquire.…”

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“…To my knowledge, the only study on spelling with adult heritage learners of Spanish is that of Beaudrie (2012). She carried out a study with university students in a composition Spanish heritage course and chose a free writing strategy rather than dictation to do an error analysis on the spelling of familiar words.…”

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“…Many teachers are unaware of the best teaching techniques for spelling, and traditional approaches that are used in most of the textbooks are drills that students do not find motivating (Brown, 1990). Many Spanish heritage learners' curricula present a general overview of orthographic rules in Spanish instead of placing emphasis on the common spelling errors made by these learners (Beaudrie, 2012). Beaudrie proposes a more focused corpus-based approach to spelling instruction since the typical errors that Spanish heritage learners are facing are limited.…”

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“…Thus, reading would help heritage learners with their spelling. Beaudrie (2012) proposes emphasis on diacritics' instruction and verbal forms as a means of reducing around 50% of the current accentuation misspellings. In fact, the regular stress pattern of preterit and imperfect would facilitate the teaching of these tenses.…”

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Current Approaches to Orthography Instruction for Spanish Heritage Learners: An Analysis of Intermediate and Advanced Textbooks

Burgo

2015

Normas

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ABSTRACT:As it is well known, heritage learners of Spanish have an advantage in oral production and aural comprehension over L2 learners. However, due to their lack of formal instruction in Spanish, their linguistic weaknesses lie in their literacy skills (reading and writing). In terms of writing skills, students mainly struggle with orthography issues (accentuation and spelling) and larger literacy skills (e.g. developing a thesis or organizing ideas). However, there is an important gap in the literature regarding orthographic acquisition since most of the research in the field that focuses on form instruction has predominantly been on grammar acquisition (Anderson, 2008;Montrul and Bowles, 2008; Potowski, 2005, among others). In fact, despite the increasing amount of textbooks with an emphasis on the writing process addressed to this student population, to my knowledge there has not been a study on the current approaches of Spanish heritage learners' textbooks for orthography instruction. After analyzing four popular textbooks for Spanish heritage learners, it can be deduced that the lack of research in this area perpetuates the maintenance of traditional non-communicative explicit instruction of orthography through drills after an explicit explanation of the rules of both accentuation and spelling. However, new textbooks shed some light on the implementation of focus on form teaching techniques commonly used in the L2 classroom such as input-output activities.

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Morphological awareness and spelling in Spanish heritage language learners

Llombart-Huesca

2017

Linguistics and Education

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A corpus-based study on the misspellings of Spanish heritage learners and their implications for teaching

Cited by 25 publications

References 27 publications

Research on Heritage Spanish Phonetics and Phonology: Pedagogical and Curricular Implications

Research on Heritage Spanish Phonetics and Phonology: Pedagogical and Curricular Implications

Current Approaches to Orthography Instruction for Spanish Heritage Learners: An Analysis of Intermediate and Advanced Textbooks

Morphological awareness and spelling in Spanish heritage language learners

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