🎉Felicidades to this week’s Author Spotlight, Jorge Vargas-Mutizabal! Vargas-Mutizabal’s article “Testing the Lexical Aspect Hypothesis in the Writing of Spanish L2 Learners: A Corpus-Based Study” aims to test the lexical aspect hypothesis predictions in Spanish L2 acquisition. The author analyzes the written responses to an open-ended task to assess the morphological development of the preterit and imperfect for students in the intermediate-mid and advanced-mid. Congratulations on this well-crafted piece!

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Jorge Vargas-Mutizabal is a Ph.D. student in Spanish Second Language Acquisition at Rutgers University. He graduated with a master’s degree in Language Pedagogy in 2022 from the University of Utah. As a master’s student, he focused his research on the Lexical Aspect Hypothesis using corpus analysis. Jorge is excited to be sharing his first research paper in Hispanic Linguistics, featured in the Spanish & Portuguese Review. As a doctoral student, he is involved in L2 language processing using eye-tracking. He expects to be sharing more of his scholarly work in the future.