Second Language Acquisition

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Ana Fernández Dobao
Professor, Spanish; Language Program Director
Sabrina Spannagel Bradley
Associate Teaching Professor, Spanish

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Fernández Dobao, A., Herschensohn, J., Vukadinovich, S., & Zhang, W. (2025). Gender and number agreement by Spanish heritage and second language children in dual immersion. Heritage Language Journal, 22(1), 1–37. https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-bja10043
Alonso Alonso, R. & Fernández Dobao, A. (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), 76–110. https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.23010.alo
Silva, Gláucia; Soares, Cristiane; and Eduardo Viana da Silva. “Teaching practices of inclusive language in Portuguese.” Padilla et. al. Rethinking Representations, Inclusion and Social Justice in World Language Teaching: Insights for research and Pedagogy. Routledge, 2024. pp. 51-70.
Fernández Dobao, A. (2024) Discursive positioning in heritage-second language learner interaction: A case study of the dynamic construction of linguistic expertise. Language Teaching Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362168824126.
Palacios Martínez, I. & Fernández Dobao, A. (2024). La flexión de género en ELE. Aportaciones e implicaciones didácticas de un estudio de corpus. Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 19, 132-147. https://doi.org/10.4995/rlyla.2024.19337
Fernández–Dobao, A. (2023). “Pero yo también estoy aprendiendo”: Negotiating expert and novice positions in heritage–second language learner interaction. Modern Language Journal, 107, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12882
Fernández Dobao, A. & Herschensohn, J. (2021). Acquisition of Spanish verbal morphology by child bilinguals: Overregularization by heritage speakers and second language learners. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 24(1), 56–68. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728920000310
Fernández Dobao, A. & Herschensohn, J. (2020). Present tense verb morphology of Spanish HL and L2 children in dual immersion: Feature Reassembly revisited. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 10(6), 775–804. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.18026.fer
Fernández Dobao, A. (2020a). Collaborative writing in mixed classes: What do heritage and second language learners think? Foreign Language Annals, 53(1), 48–68. https://doi.org/10.1111/ flan.12446
Fernández Dobao, A. (2020b). Exploring interaction between heritage and second language learners in the Spanish language classroom: Opportunities for collaborative dialogue and learning. In W. Suzuki & N. Storch (Eds.), Languaging in language learning and teaching: A collection of empirical studies (pp. 91–110). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.55.04fer