Ana Fernández-Dobao
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ana Fernández-Dobao is involved.
2026 Assessing the relationship between extramural English and L2 writing: A CALF perspective ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study examines the relationship between engagement in extramural English (EE) activities and second language (L2) writing among 96 high school learners of English. Participants completed an EE questionnaire and a writing task. Their texts were analyzed using measures of syntactic and… read more
2025 Adolescents’ informal exposure to English as a second language in the context of Galicia: Effects on vocabulary, grammar, and writing ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 176:1, pp. 76–110 | Article
This study examines the effects of informal English exposure on vocabulary, grammar, and writing. A total of 178 Galician adolescent learners of English completed a placement test, a language background and an out-of-school English activities questionnaire, and three language tasks: a… read more
2020 Chapter 4. Exploring interaction between heritage and second language learners in the Spanish language classroom: Opportunities for collaborative dialogue and learning Languaging in Language Learning and Teaching: A collection of empirical studies, Suzuki, Wataru and Neomy Storch (eds.), pp. 91–110 | Chapter
This study analyzes collaborative writing activities completed by heritage language (HL) and second language (L2) learners’ dyads with a focus on collaborative dialogue and learning. Eight HL and ten L2 learners participated in the study, completing a total of 26 collaborative writing activities… read more
2020 Present tense verb morphology of Spanish HL and L2 children in dual immersion: Feature Reassembly revisited Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 10:6, pp. 775–804 | Article
We provide a snapshot of childhood morphology development in our investigation of two profiles of bilinguals (age 9–10) in an English-Spanish dual immersion academic setting: Spanish heritage language (SHL, n = 21) and second language (SL2, n = 41) children. Three tasks were given to the 62… read more
2018 Chapter 8. Code-switching in the Spanish heritage language classroom: Communicative and cognitive functions Speaking in a Second Language, Alonso, Rosa Alonso (ed.), pp. 175–196 | Chapter
Code-switching is a common practice among bilingual speakers, including Spanish heritage language learners. Research on Spanish-English bilinguals in the United States has provided plenty of evidence documenting the use of code-switching in daily conversation with a variety of communicative and… read more
2016 1. Peer interaction and learning: A focus on the silent learner Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning: Pedagogical potential and research agenda, Sato, Masatoshi and Susan Ballinger (eds.), pp. 33–61 | Article
This chapter investigated whether all learners benefitted from the lexical language-related episodes (LREs) produced in small group interaction, even when acting as silent observers of their peers’ collaborative work. Using a pretest-posttest design, evidence was obtained confirming that silent… read more
2006 Linguistic and cultural aspects of the translation of swearing: The Spanish version of Pulp Fiction Babel 52:3, pp. 222–242 | Article