Motivos de conversación. Essentials of Spanish

Collins, Dale A.; Nicholas, Robert L.; Dominicis, Maria Canteli

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“…The analogy between English and Spanish is questioned by some works which do not acknowledge a clear parallel between both languages, such as Motivos de Conversación: "The present perfect does not always have an exact equivalent with the English present perfect. Sometimes it is used for the simple past" (Nicholas;Dominicis;Neale-Silva, 1988, p. 204). Other materials question this equivalence by recognising regional variation or the speaker's subjectivity as factors which can determine the tense to use.…”

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A cross-regional study on the recognition of dialectal diversity in the uses of Spanish past tenses in L2 Spanish textbooks

Cubo

2023

Rev. bras. linguist. apl.

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This analysis continues the examination of the acknowledgement of dialectal variation in L2 Spanish textbooks initiated by Hernández Cubo (2019) and compares its findings with those from that previous study by focusing on the same linguistic aspect: the difference in the uses and semantic scopes of two past tenses – Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto and Pretérito Indefinido – in the Peninsular and Hispanic American macro-varieties. As the study by Hernández Cubo (2019) only examines textbooks produced in Spain, this investigation proposes a cross-regional comparison by evaluating materials from other world regions. Therefore, this research contributes to the investigation of language variation in L2 Spanish instruction by proposing a cross-regional analysis, which shows that the recognition of dialectal diversity within the uses of the aforementioned tenses is not a priority among textbook authors. Works from the USA, France, Germany and Italy present certain levels of dialectal acknowledgement, while the ones from Brazil and the UK constitute the most significantly dialectally sensitive materials regarding the treatment of Spanish past tenses.

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Section: Qualitative Remarksmentioning

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A cross-regional study on the recognition of dialectal diversity in the uses of Spanish past tenses in L2 Spanish textbooks

Cubo

2023

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Motivos de conversación. Essentials of Spanish

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A cross-regional study on the recognition of dialectal diversity in the uses of Spanish past tenses in L2 Spanish textbooks

A cross-regional study on the recognition of dialectal diversity in the uses of Spanish past tenses in L2 Spanish textbooks

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