Download or read book The Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation by Learners of Spanish in a Study Abroad Context written by Francisco Salgado-Robles and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The results suggest that SA learners do in fact develop an awareness of non-standard forms of the target language, which are, to a certain degree, incorporated into their sociolinguistic competence. In sum, this project contributes to an extensive body of research on the SLA of object pronouns by adding qualitative and quantitative longitudinal data, and helps to add further knowledge about the development of L2 linguistic competence during a sojourn abroad, and to fill a gap in the new strand of studies on the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation due to L2 learners' exposure to the target speech community.