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Perceptions of Spanish heritage and L2 writing.
Abstract
Four compositions written in Spanish by two Spanish heritage speakers and two second language learners are evaluated and commented on by twenty native Spanish speakers from eleven Spanish-speaking countries. The study addresses what differences they notice in the writing and what aspects they find positive and negative. While grammar was troublesome in all, heritage speaker fluency tended to be perceived as denoting better writing.
Introduction
Heritage language learners generally do not perform as well in literacy skills as they do in oral proficiency due largely to a lack of formal education in the Spanish language. Although a wide ...
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