Linda Escobar

• Professor
• National University of Distance Education

En los últimos años se han empleado a cabo diversas estrategias para incorporar el lenguaje claro en el ámbito jurídico-administrativo. En este contexto, existen diversas fuentes bibliográficas que ofrecen recomendaciones para la escritura en lenguaje claro en inglés. El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar las recomendaciones sobre lenguaje c...

This article presents the results of an experimental study on the acquisition of the clitic se by Dutch-speaking students of Spanish as a foreign language in the third year of the Department of Translation, Interpretation and Communication at the University of Ghent. Based on a sequence taken from the anglophone film The Help (Taylor, 2011), one gr...

This edited book presents a selection of new empirical studies in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP), showcasing the best practices of educators in their particular contexts. The chapters cover settings grouped into three main categories: L2 abilities and English as a medium of instruction in English/Spanish...

Resumen: En este artículo se presentan los resultados de un estudio experimental sobre la adquisición del clítico se por parte de estudiantes belgas neerlandófonos que estudian el español como lengua extranjera en el tercer año del Departamento de Traducción, Interpretación y Comunicación de la Universidad de Gante. Basándo-se en una secuencia saca...

La tecnología puede facilitar el aprendizaje de la gramática de una lengua, por ejemplo, a través de la revisión automática de los textos. El objetivo principal de este artículo es describir el desarrollo de una herramienta de ayuda a la redacción de textos en español que contribuye al aprendizaje de los conectores discursivos. La herramienta dispo...

Tourism is one of the most important specialized domains in Spain. For this reason, many linguistic studies related to tourism texts have been carried out in the last few years. In this work, we focus on three of the most frequent and difficult textual genres written in Spanish in this domain: the informative article, the travel blog post, and the...

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies es una publicación del Departamento de Filología inglesa y Alemana de la Universidad de Zaragoza. Cada artículo es evaluado de forma anónima por dos informantes. Miscelánea difunde artículos sobre lingüística inglesa, literaturas escritas en inglés, pensamiento, cine y estudios culturales del ám...

This paper shows the results of a teaching innovation project, which consisted in providing students with a video description task, by which they could practise their written skills in a collaborative fashion in their English for Tourism university studies-which enables them to obtain a B2 level. A total of 35 adult volunteers participated in this...

Many Spanish students need to learn English beyond the age of 25 to be able to find a job or be further promoted. Unfortunately, those who attempt to pass a university entry-qualifications test often lack the required academic level. To help them achieve this goal, they are usually provided with learning materials and supportive digital resources....

Many Spanish students need to learn English beyond the age of 25 to be able to find a job or be further promoted. Unfortunately, those who attempt to pass a university entry-qualifications test often lack the required academic level. To help them achieve this goal, they are usually provided with learning materials and supportive digital resources....

This work investigates the perceptions on the role played by Project-Based Learning (PBL) in English as a second language (L2 English) participants who are receiving teacher training online. The participants in this study were enrolled in the Psycholinguistic Analysis of English Acquisition module at xxx-removed for blind review. They were given th...

The objective of this work is to analyze the level of satisfaction of 93 Bachelor students of the English studies Degree with a distance learning methodology during the preparation of the Final Degree Project, the tutorial function and the use of resources in the virtual course. Through an online survey, the students reported being highly satisfied...

En España, la introducción del lenguaje claro en la Administración ha sido tenido menos impacto que en otros países. No obstante, se han llevado a cabo diversas iniciativas para la mejora de la claridad de los textos jurídico-administrativos y, además, existen diferentes fuentes que ofrecen recomendaciones para la redacción en lenguaje claro de est...

One of the main goals of this book, and especially of section one, is to discuss the importance of English in mediating knowledge in tertiary education where English is considered a medium of instruction in order to provide students with an international perspective. English for specific purposes (ESPs) start to resemble Content and Language Integr...

This edited book presents a selection of new empirical studies in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP), showcasing the best practices of educators in their particular contexts. The chapters cover settings grouped into three main categories: L2 abilities and English as a medium of instruction in English/Spanish...

This empirical study focuses on the use of Spanish clitic pronouns when they function as accusative or as dative clitics in the translation tasks performed by university students of Spanish as a foreign language (SFL). The participants were 35 Belgian Dutch-speaking students of SFL (Level B2) from the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Com...

Book review: María Martínez-Adrián, M. Juncal Gutiérrez-Mangado & Francisco Gallardodel- Puerto, eds. 2019 "L1 Use in Content-based and CLIL Settings. "Special issue of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 22. ISSN: 1747-7522.

Despite the growth and development of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) as an area of study since the 1960s, few books related to classroom applications in combination with other disciplines such as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), English Language Teaching (ELT), or English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI), exist. Each section of...

Many adults enter higher education in Europe where English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is key to their studies and therefore they are required to have sufficient preparation for the development of professional expertise in this target language. Recently, Content Language Integrative Learning (CLIL) has also been incorporated in tertiary education....

Many adults enter higher education in Europe where English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is key to their studies and therefore they are required to have sufficient preparation for the development of professional expertise in this target language. Recently, Content Language Integrative Learning (CLIL) has also been incorporated in tertiary education....

This paper deals with a case study on the comprehension of L2 English passive sentences (1) along with other intransitive sentences like those in (2) containing unergative and unaccusative verbs, by Spanish-speaking adults in a formal context. (1) a The book was read by the student b The wall got painted (2) a The window broke yesterday b The...

Se trata del resumen publicado en el libro de las X Jornadas de Investigación en Innovación Docente de la UNED organizadas por el Vicerrectorado de Metodología e Innovación y elInstituto Universitario de Educación a Distancia (IUED). El objetivo principal es la presentación de los resultados obtenidos en el proyecto desarrollado en la asignatura Si...

La incorporación de los másteres oficiales en el EEES, ha requerido la elaboración de nuevos planes de estudios y sistemas de evaluación en la universidad española. El TFM resulta esencial para valorar la asimilación de conocimientos y la adquisición de nuevas competencias de los estudiantes. Es un instrumento clave para la iniciación en la investi...

As is well known, visual scaffolding is an excellent way to provide comprehensible input to ESL students. Our main tenet is that students need to learn the key parts of difficult texts. Not only will they learn the essential writing skills for these text genres but they will also make progress in their acquisition of English for Specific Purposes....

Resumen Este trabajo muestra cómo se aplican las tecnologías digitales y/o móviles en un curso de enseñanza integrada de la lengua inglesa en contextos formales universitarios a distancia en la Universidad Nacional de Enseñanza a Distancia (UNED, Spain). En este trabajo se presentan los resultados obtenidos de cuatro proyectos de innovación educati...

This article examines the second language acquisition (SLA) of Spanish dative clitics in clitic doubling (CLD) structures that are closely related to the double object construction (DOC) in English and Dutch. It also addresses the question of how adult English and Dutch speakers learning L2 Spanish in a formal setting develop knowledge and use of t...

This article examines the second language acquisition (SLA) of Spanish dative clitics in clitic doubling (CLD) structures that are closely related to the double object construction (DOC) in English and Dutch. It also addresses the question of how adult English and Dutch speakers learning L2 Spanish in a formal setting develop knowledge and use of t...

In this paper a number of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors are addressed to determine the existence of Spanish indefinite noun phrases found to the left of the verb in instances of Hanging Topic Left Dislocation linked to a null resumptive pronoun in the clause.

In this study, we analyse the nature of clitic “se” and low applicatives in Spanish L2 through the study of the non-native acquisition of this clitic by L1 English adult learners. In particular, we are going to discuss the question of how English adults acquire this clitic in the different syntactic configurations where it appears (anticausative in...

This paper deals with the L2 acquisition of different types of Spanish clitic “se” by English learners of Spanish on the assumption that they have to learn a new functional category corresponding to a low applicative head not present in their L1 language. In this respect, we would like to provide evidence as to the question of whether new functiona...

This work provides empirical evidence from Childes corpora that shows that the clitic "se" is earlier acquired with anticausative inchoative ("La ventana se rompió" [The window broke]) and reflexive predicates ("Juan se afeitó esta mañana" [John shaved this morning]) than with transitive ("Juan se lavó las manos" [John washed his hands]) and non-an...

This work provides empirical evidence from CHILDES corpora that shows that the clitic “se” is earlier acquired with anticausative inchoative (“La ventana se rompió” [The window broke]) and reflexive predicates (“Juan se afeitó esta mañana” [John shaved this morning]) than with transitive (“Juan se lavó las manos” [John washed his hands]) and non-an...

1. Background The study of quantification in child language traces back to Inhelder and Piaget's (1964) work, when they found that children incurred a non-adult-like interpretation of universal quantification, with what was termed overexhaustive search: up to the age of six or seven, children would answer no to the question Are all the circles blue...

The main goal of this paper is to give evidence for the general hypothesis that adult subjects learning a second language have access to Universal Grammar (UG) at all stages. According to our new findings, L1 transfer is not only what is at hand in the acquisition of the Saxon Genitive by Spanish speaking adults, since Spanish grammar bans the pres...

This book contains 12 papers contributed by leading scholars in the field of language development, studying variants of the languages which originated on the Iberian peninsula. The contributors examine language development in both typically-developing and language-impaired populations who are learning language in diverse learning conditions, includ...

The papers comprising this volume focus on a broad range of acquisition phenomena (subject dislocation, structural case, word order, determiners, pronouns, quantifiers and logical words) from different languages and language combinations. These include languages with large numbers of speakers (French, German, Spanish) and less frequently spoken one...

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid 0. Abstract The literature on acquisition of aspect has focussed on the perfectivity-imperfectivity distinction. In this paper we deal with this topic regarding the acquisition of aspectual clitic se which is crucially related to perfectivity structures. The data analysed are available on the Ch...

This volume includes a selection of papers that address a wide range of acquisition phenomena from different Romance languages and all share a common theoretical approach based on the Principles and Parameters theory. They favour, discuss and sometimes challenge traditional explanations of first and second language acquisition in terms of maturatio...

This volume includes a selection of papers that address a wide range of acquisition phenomena from different Romance languages and all share a common theoretical approach based on the Principles and Parameters theory. They favour, discuss and sometimes challenge traditional explanations of first and second language acquisition in terms of maturatio...

This volume includes a selection of papers that address a wide range of acquisition phenomena from different Romance languages and all share a common theoretical approach based on the Principles and Parameters theory. They favour, discuss and sometimes challenge traditional explanations of first and second language acquisition in terms of maturatio...

New experimental data on children's comprehension of universal quantifiers in Spanish through the interpretation of quantified subjects in preverbal and postverbal position.

En los años 80, muchos lingüístas generativistas interesados en la adquisición de segundas lenguas adoptaron la llamada "teoría de marcaje" porque parecía ofrecer uno explicación al problema de la adquisición de segundas lenguas al diferenciar entre lo que es la gramática de base (lo que es invariable para todas las lenguas) y las opciones gramatic...

0. Introduction There is a growing body of research on the acquisition of the pronominal system of natural languages. The goal of this paper 1 _is to examine the contrast between strong pronouns and clitics in the light of their acquisition; the data considered will be from Catalan, and further data from other languages will also be brought in. Our...