The expression of attitude in an oral corpus of academic presentations of L2 Students and Heritage Speakers of Spanish at the university context in the United States

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https://doi.org/10.26378/rnlael1429420

Keywords:

corpus analysis, stance, attitude markers, metadiscourse, academic presentation

Abstract

This article reports on the results of the analysis of a corpus (n=15) of oral presentations in Spanish given by undergraduate Heritage Speakers and L2 students in the US. The goal is to determine how students express their stance through metadiscourse. The analysis focused on attitude markers, their frequency and rhetorical function as proposed by Hyland. The results reveal that Heritage Speakers use these attitude markers the most and that evaluative adjectives, in both groups, is the most common linguistic realization to codify stance.

Author Biography

Eva Maria Gomez Garcia, Brown University

M.A. in Hispanic Studies (University of Washington) and in Linguistics Applied to the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language (Universidad Nebrija). Her 15-year teaching career includes the teaching of courses at different levels in the university environment in the United States. Since 2016, she co-directs the Spanish program and teaches courses at advanced levels at Brown University.  Currently, she is also a PhD student in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching at Universidad Antonio de Nebrija. Her areas of interest are academic Spanish and teaching Spanish to heritage speakers in the US. 

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2020-12-12

How to Cite

Gomez Garcia, E. M. (2020). The expression of attitude in an oral corpus of academic presentations of L2 Students and Heritage Speakers of Spanish at the university context in the United States. Nebrija Journal of Applied Linguistics to Language Teaching, 14(29), 57–75. https://doi.org/10.26378/rnlael1429420

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Vol. 14 No. 29 (2020): issue 29

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Thematic section "Computer Learners Corpora..."

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