Theory and Practice for Spanish (Ir)regular Verbs

Prepared by Karen L. Smith* Theory and Practice for Spanish (lr)regular Verbs* *A la memona de Dolores Bonin Cardinal Bostic * Joseph A. Wieczorek, Loyola College in Maryland Introductiont learners) about verbs in Spanish. In panicular, the application of the principles In the last thre decades, linguistic theory has of NGG to the analysis of athematicity (A) and moved from simpl nalys s and description of the usefulness of th t analysis to foreig l th structure of a anguage to the di ove of the guage learning nd edagogy will b xplored. ivation for that structure. To validate linAs originally c ceived by Cressey (1972), guistic lai s, the res r he draws n b th lat r modif ed (Cressey 1978), A i a theoretical language-specific and univers l concepts. As c ns ruct which refl ct he bsence o he theme

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