A Two-Sided Mirror: Digital Revolution and Cognitive Involution. E-books and the Linguistic Competence of Romanian Learners of Spanish Cover Image

Un espejo de dos caras: revolución digital e involución cognitiva. El e-book y la competencia lingüística de los alumnos rumanos de E/LE
A Two-Sided Mirror: Digital Revolution and Cognitive Involution. E-books and the Linguistic Competence of Romanian Learners of Spanish

Author(s): Lavinia Ienceanu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: e-book vs canonical learning; bilingualism; linguistic (in)competence

Summary/Abstract: In keeping with statistics featuring Spanish as the second most used language on the Internet, the present contribution, by showcasing a research corpus comprised of written discourse samples, seeks to highlight both the adverse and the beneficial effects of free – if, alas, on automatic pilot – reading and learning, as well as to chart the linguistic map of the loci where the bilinguals documented are as a rule left stranded, in that it additionally analyzes errors as a function of the subjects’ explicitly opposing or advocating e-books, which, to our mind, is most apt to generate such errors.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 61-78
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Spanish