Maria del Mar Suárez
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maria del Mar Suárez is involved.
2025 Extensive viewing in young English as a foreign language learners: Do aptitude and vocabulary size influence vocabulary learning? Language Teaching for Young Learners 7:2, pp. 270–302 | Article
Audiovisual input has been shown to promote vocabulary acquisition in foreign language learners. However, there is limited research on the effects of extensive viewing in a classroom context with young beginner learners of English. This study investigates foreign language vocabulary learning… read more
2024 Vocabulary learning from audiovisual input at first exposure in young adult novice learners Audiovisual Input and Second Language Learning, Muñoz, Carmen and Imma Miralpeix (eds.), pp. 199–220 | Chapter
In this ‘First Exposure’ (FE) study, 106 Catalan/Spanish young adults proficient in English watched a short advert with the audio in English and subtitles in Polish, a language they were not familiar with. Results indicated that vocabulary learning took place, as their meaning recognition scores… read more
2024 The role of language aptitude in learning L2 constructions from captioned and uncaptioned audiovisual input Audiovisual Input and Second Language Learning, Muñoz, Carmen and Imma Miralpeix (eds.), pp. 176–198 | Chapter
This chapter discusses the effects of aptitude on learning L2 grammatical constructions from TV series with or without captions. Study 1 involved 69 Catalan/Spanish learners of English (EFL) who watched ten episodes of an English TV series, and targeted grammatical constructions learning. Study… read more
2023 Young learners’ bilingual status and cognitive development in foreign language aptitude testing ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 174:2, pp. 291–315 | Article
Young learners’ L1s preference, cognitive development and bilingual status might influence their performance on language aptitude tests, particularly if these are language-dependent. The objective of this study was to test the validity, reliability and consistency across populations of two such… read more
2011 Aptitude, age and cognitive development: The MLAT-E in Spanish and Catalan EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 11 (2011), Roberts, Leah, Gabriele Pallotti and Camilla Bettoni (eds.), pp. 5–29 | Article
In the validation studies of the Modern Language Aptitude Test-Elementary (MLAT-E) (Carroll & Sapon 1967) and its Spanish version, the MLAT-ES (Stansfield & Reed 2005), the total scores across grades increase unsteadily. At no point, though, has this increase been discussed. Similar results are… read more