PUBLICATIONS:
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Journal articles & book chapters

Refereed conference proceedings & working papers

Other

Edited books

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce and Elena Valenzuela (eds.) (in press) Proceedings of the 10th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Somerville: Cascadilla Press.

Journal articles & book chapters:

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce and Valenzuela, Elena. 2008. "Ser and estar in second language acquisition: a matter of aspect". Geeslin, K., & P. Guijarro-Fuentes (eds.), Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

Valenzuela, Elena. 2007. “On CP positions in L2 Spanis”. In J. M. Liceras, H. Zobl and H. Goodluck (eds.), The role of formal features in second language acquisition, pp. 534-560. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce and Elena Valenzuela. 2007. “Interpretive Deficit? Evidence from the future tense in L2 Spanish”. In Sánchez, Liliana and José Camacho (eds.) Proceedings from the Linguistics Symposium for Romance Linguistics 36 (LSRL 36), Rutgers University, April 2006.

Borgonovo, Claudia, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, Pedro Guijarro Fuentes, Philippe Prévost and Elena Valenzuela. 2006. “Specificity in Spanish: the syntax/semantics interface in SLA”. In Foster-Cohen, Susan, Marta Medved Krajnovic and Jelena Mihaljevic Djigunovic (eds.) EUROSLA Yearbook Volume 6, pp. 57-78.

Valenzuela, Elena. 2006. L2 end state grammars and incomplete acquisition of Spanish CLLD constructions. In Slabakova, Roumyana, Silvina Montrul and Philippe Prévost (eds.). Special Volume in honour of Lydia White. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce and Elena Valenzuela. 2006. “The status of ser and estar in late and early bilingual L2 Spanish”. In T. Face and C. Klee (eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

White, Lydia, Elena Valenzuela, Martyna Kozlowska-Macgregor and Ingrid Leung.  2004.  Gender agreement in non-native Spanish: evidence against failed features.  Applied Psycholinguistics 25.1.

Liceras, Juana M., Valenzuela, Elena y Díaz, Lourdes. 1999. L1/L2 Spanish grammars and the pragmatic deficit hypothesis.  Second language research, 15-2, pp. 161-190.

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Refereed conference proceedings & working papers:

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce and Elena Valenzuela. To appear. “Exploring the Relationship between Transfer and Input in the Acquisition of the Spanish Passives”. In Dekydspotter, Laurent and Rex Sprouse (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA 7). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce and Elena Valenzuela. 2006. “The status of ser and estar in late and early bilingual L2 Spanish”. In T. Face and C. Klee (eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Valenzuela, Elena. 2005. “Incomplete End State L2 Acquisition: L2 Spanish CLLD and English CLD constructions”. In A. Brugos, R. Clark-Cotton and S. Ha (Eds.). 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD29) Proceedings Supplement. [http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/proc.html]

White, Lydia, Elena Valenzuela, Martyna MacGregor, and Ingrid Leung. 2003. “Gender Agreement in L2 Spanish: Evidence against Failed Features”. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics. Vol. 17:2.

Valenzuela, Elena. 2002. “The Acquisition of Topic Constructions in L2 Spanish”. In A. Do, S. Fish, & B. Skarabela (eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual; Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 26), 723-733. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Valenzuela, Elena. 2002. “The status of topic constructions in L2 end state Spanish”. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics. Vol. 17:1.

White, Lydia, Elena Valenzuela, Martyna MacGregor, Ingrid Leung and Hela Ben Ayed. 2001. “The status of abstract features in interlanguage grammars: gender and number in L2 Spanish”. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD25), 792-802. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

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Other:

Valenzuela, Elena. 1997. Review of Narrative Strategies: A Case of Developing Storytelling Skills by a Learner of Spanish, pp. 271-286, Judith Liskin-Gasparro, The Modern Language Review, Vol.80, No. 3, 1996, Boletín de ASELE.

Valenzuela, Elena. 1997. Review of  L'enseignement de la grammaire en immersion française au secondaire: Les premieres lignes d'un curriculum communicatif basé sur les besoins des apprenants.es, pp. 403-421, The Canadian Modern Language Review, Vol.53, No.2, January 1997, Boletín de ASELE.

Valenzuela, Elena. 1996. Review of Christine Besnard, The Canadian Modern Language Review, Vol. 51, No. 3, April 1995, “Les contributions de la psychologie cognitive a l’enseignement stratégique des languages au niveau universitaire” pp. 426-439, Boletín de ASELE 15, November 1996, p.44.

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