Eve Zyzik
University of California, Santa Cruz
32 Papers
224 Citations
Eve Zyzik is an academic researcher from University of California, Santa Cruz. The author has contributed to research in topics: Second-language acquisition & Language acquisition. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 32 publications. Previous affiliations of Eve Zyzik include University of California, Berkeley & University of California.
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Papers
Who's Helping Whom?: Learner/Heritage‐Speakers' Networked Discussions in Spanish
Robert J. Blake,Eve Zyzik +1 more
TL;DR: This article explored the interaction between heritage speakers (HS) and learners of Spanish in a synchronous computer-assisted learning environment and found that both groups trigger and resolve miscommunications, although HS assist their L2 partners much more often.
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Incidental Focus on Form in University Spanish Literature Courses.
Eve Zyzik,Charlene Polio +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that recasts were the instructors' preferred form of feedback, with negotiation and explicit correction being extremely rare, and preemptive focus on form was common, but almost exclusively limited to vocabulary.
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Second language idiom learning: The effects of lexical knowledge and pedagogical sequencing
TL;DR: This article examined the acquisition of Spanish idioms in a classroom setting that was supplemented with explicit instruction over a 10-week period and found significant treatment effects, although no significant advantage was found for the thematic grouping of idioms.
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Judgment and Interpretation Tasks in Second Language Research
Tania Ionin,Eve Zyzik +1 more
TL;DR: The authors provide an overview of recent studies in second language acquisition that use tasks that elicit learners' judgments about the grammaticality of language or learners' interpretation of language, including acceptability judgment tasks, preference tasks, truth-value judgment tasks and other types of interpretation tasks.
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Don Quixote Meets Ser and Estar: Multiple Perspectives on Language Learning in Spanish Literature Classes
Charlene Polio,Eve Zyzik +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the students' and instructors' perspectives on language learning in this context and found that although both the instructors and the students had concerns about students' language ability, the instructors had minimal language-related goals for their classes, and language issues were dealt with mostly incidentally.
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