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The effects of Community Service Learning projects on L2 learners’ cultural understanding (2011)
Journal Article
Zapata, G. (2011). The effects of Community Service Learning projects on L2 learners’ cultural understanding. Hispania, 94(1), 86-102

This small-scale study investigates the effects of community service learning (CSL) projects or a cultural presentation on the development of the cultural understanding of low- and high-intermediate L2 students. Fifty-two learners in four sections of... Read More about The effects of Community Service Learning projects on L2 learners’ cultural understanding.

Semantic Categories and Context in L2 Vocabulary Learning (2011)
Journal Article
Bolger, P., & Zapata, G. (2011). Semantic Categories and Context in L2 Vocabulary Learning. Language Learning, 61(2), 614-646. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9922.2010.00624.x

This article extends recent findings that presenting semantically related vocabulary simultaneously inhibits learning. It does so by adding story contexts. Participants learned 32 new labels for known concepts from four different semantic categories... Read More about Semantic Categories and Context in L2 Vocabulary Learning.

Psycholinguistic approaches to language processing in heritage speakers (2011)
Journal Article
Zapata, G., & Bolger, P. (2011). Psycholinguistic approaches to language processing in heritage speakers. Heritage Language Journal, 8(1), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.46538/hlj.8.1.2

This paper focuses on the dearth of language-processing research addressing Spanish heritage speakers in assimilationist communities. First, we review key offline work on this population, and we then summarize the few psycholinguistic (online) studie... Read More about Psycholinguistic approaches to language processing in heritage speakers.