U.S. heritage learners of Spanish scored above the 70% proficiency threshold on request DCT pre-tests, showing no negative pragmatic transfer from English¶
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q2 i? SHL participants averaged 96.67% on the written DCT pre-test and 97.78% on the oral DCT pre-test, exceeding the 70% proficiency threshold, suggesting exposure to American pragmatic norms did not influence their Spanish request strategies. → Barros García 2018
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Barros García 2018¶
Barros García, M. J., & Bachelor, J. W. (2018). Pragmatic Instruction May Not Be Necessary Among Heritage Learners of Spanish: A Study on Requests. Journal of Foreign Language Education and Technology, 3(1). https://jflet.com/jflet/
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Pre-test analysis of 18 SHL students in a Spanish heritage language course, using written and oral discourse completion tasks with 10 scenarios each. The article reports the averages "was a 96.67%" (written) and "a 97.78%" (oral), both above the 70% proficiency threshold the researchers adopted from Ross (2008).
"As seen in Table 1, the average score on the written DCT pre-test was a 96.67%, and the average score on the oral DCT pre-test was a 97.78%."
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Related Claims¶
- Pragmatic lessons on requests did not significantly improve SHL learners' pragmatic request competence, with scores decreasing from pre- to post-test — related
- The L2 experimental group improved more than the SHL group after the pragmatic interventions on both DCT measures — related
- Pragmatic lessons produced descriptive but not statistically significant gains in the L2 experimental group's request performance — related
- Heritage learners of Spanish enter Spanish courses with high pragmatic competence in recognizing appropriate compliment strategies — related
- Pragmatic lessons on compliments produce no statistically significant improvement in heritage learners' recognition of compliment strategies — related
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