Spanish heritage speakers in the United States exhibit a wide range of linguistic profiles due to a combination of political, social, and educational factors. Most of them acquire Spanish at home without formal instruction in writing. Although previous research has explored the main challenges faced by these learners in Spanish writing courses, no current research has examined the linguistic features that characterize their writing using a corpus‐based approach that would facilitate the identification of their actual patterns of language use. This study presents the findings of a multidimensional analysis of the writing produced by Spanish heritage learners in three composition classes at the college level. The findings show how 47 lexical and grammatical features co‐occur in four distinctive discourse types: informational, descriptive, narrative, and detached, with some variation observed across proficiency levels.

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西班牙语作为传统语言的写作：多维分析

由于政治，社会和教育因素的共同作用，在美国讲西班牙语的母语的人在语言上表现出广泛的特色。他们中的大多数人在没有正式书面指导的情况下在家学习西班牙语。尽管以前的研究已经探讨了这些学习者在西班牙语写作课程中面临的主要挑战，但当前没有研究使用基于语料库的方法来研究表征他们写作的语言特征，这将有助于识别他们的实际语言使用方式。这项研究提出了对西班牙传统学习者在大学三个写作班中撰写的作品进行多维分析的结果。研究结果表明47种词汇和语法特征是如何在四种独特的话语类型中同时出现的：信息性，描述性，叙述性，