Comprehending and Speaking about Motion in L2 Spanish : A Case of Implicit Learning in Anglophones

• Main Author: Navarro Ortega, Samuel A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Applied linguistics.; Psycholinguistics.; Romance languages.; Semantics.; Lexicology.; Language and education.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319493077
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49307-7
• Physical Description: XV, 231 p. 10 illus., 9 illus. in color. online resource.

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-lan...