Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Ruiz-Debbe, Lilia Delfina | Davidiak, Elena.
Date
2012-08-01
Keywords
Language
Department
Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/71479
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
This study investigates why and where within a sentence, non-L1 Spanish students still make mistakes when classifying the grammatical gender after being exposed to the grammar explanations. Thirty-six L1 and non- L1 English speakers from two Spanish beginner college level class were asked to complete five different experiments, in which students had to match the gender of the noun with the correspondent article and make the gender of the nouns agree by writing or selecting the correct descriptive adjective. Results showed that (1) at a very early stage, students' Cultural Language Perception could interfere with the learning of the grammatical gender. (2) Students will have difficulty when making gender agreement in a nominal phrase rather than in an adjective phrase,122 pages
Recommended Citation
de Jesus, Heidy A., "The Learning of the Grammatical Gender in a Second Language" (2012). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 685.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/685