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Theoretical Linguistics Meets Pedagogical Practice: Pronominal Subject Use in Spanish as a Second Language
- Hispania
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 93, Number 1, March 2010
- pp. 52-65
- 10.1353/hpn.2010.a376307
- Article
- Additional Information
This article attempts to highlight the importance of theoretical linguistics and empirical cognitive linguistics studies for the practical teaching of Spanish as a second language. Looking at the domain of subject pronominal use as an example, I endeavor to show how formal linguistics can be useful to language instructors. This is a significant enterprise since language instructors could benefit from both a better understanding of the linguistic properties of the languages they teach and what psycholinguistic studies have revealed about the nature of adult language learning in general.