Resumen de Japanese L1 Speakers Blogging in Spanish: Motivation, Topics and Linguistic Properties

María del Pilar Valverde Ibáñez

• Web blogs are a particular type of text because of their ambivalent nature: they are private and public, speech and writing, monologue and dialogue at the same time. They can be a good source of information about learners’ motivation to write in a foreign language and their favorite topics, and they have particular linguistic properties. To investigate these questions, we constructed a blog corpus made up of 2,125 texts coming from 48 Spanish blogs written by 43 Japanese L1 speakers.