Research Design
To answer the research questions of this investigation, three sets of data
were gathered, which are labeled Study A, Study B, and Study C. The data were
collected from groups of learners taking a fourth-semester university Spanish
language course at the University of Texas at Austin. The central goal of this
work is to examine the extent to which learners of Spanish can identify and
translate Spanish phonemes and segment streams of speech into recognizable
words or phrases. The data in Study A were important to address the question
regarding learners’ phonemic awareness.