Introduction to Developmental and Historical Structuralism

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Language as Labor: Semantic Activities as the Basis for Language Development

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A comparison of the first and second languages of American and Spanish students

Twenty-four American and 24 Spanish Ss gave restricted associations both in English and in Spanish to 35 stimuli under seven different instructions. Second-language learners left more blanks in their records than native speakers. This was particularly true for American Ss studying Spanish. In both languages, the response variability was greater for Spanish than for Amerian Ss. However, American Ss were superior when the degree of conceptual clarity was analyzed by counting the response repetitions per stimulus that occur under different task instructions. Interpretations were given in terms of growth of vocabulary and in terms of the acquisition of the conceptual, semantic systems of the target language.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/33302/1/0000696.pd