Development of written language in Spanish as a foreign language in the context of autonomous study
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https://doi.org/10.30827/portalin.vi41.26608Keywords:
dynamic systems theory, complexity, accuracy and fluency, written production, autonomous study, dynamic developmentAbstract
The work carries out a longitudinal study of a class of Chinese undergraduate students majored in Spanish. Based on the theory of dynamic systems (DST) and data visualization methods, we study the group and individual development of the complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) of the writings made in the autonomous study mode. The result shows that: (1) the characteristic of a fluctuating and non-linear development does not depend on the study environment; (2) the change of the environment exerts positive influences on syntactic complexity and fluency, and negative influences on lexical complexity and precision; (3) the students of similar level present different patterns of linguistic development. The student with positive learning beliefs and awareness of improving CAF tends to experience less dip and fluctuation in the self-study environment. The results are explained by the DST and the retrospective interviews. The work paves the way for analysis of the acquisition of Spanish as a foreign language on vacation.
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El trabajo ha sido patrocinado por el Proyecto de Reforma de la Enseñanza de Educación Especial Ideológica y Política para los estudios de grado de la Universidad Renmin de China. El número de proyecto es KCSZ202214.
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