Vanessa Elias
List of John Benjamins publications in which Vanessa Elias is involved.
Articles
2024 Chapter 8. Critical language awareness, heritage learners, and (non)dynamic language ideologies in a Spanish in the US course Recent Developments in Hispanic Linguistics: Studies in structure, variation, and bilingualism, Gradoville, Michael and Sean McKinnon (eds.), pp. 197–219 | Chapter
Given exposure to hegemonic language ideologies from multiple sources and actors in larger society, a key component of critical language awareness (CLA) pedagogy is to raise students’ critical consciousness about them. Therefore, the present study examines how seven Spanish heritage language… read more
2023 Chapter 3. Situational and contextual variation in the development of Spanish apologies during short-term study abroad Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish, Zahler, Sara, Avizia Y. Long and Bret Linford (eds.), pp. 82–109 | Chapter
This study investigates the effect of instruction and micro-social factors (social distance and power) on learners’ production of L2 Spanish apologies during a 6-week immersion program in Spain. It also explores whether learners are able to apply semantic formulas learned for one speech act… read more