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Malkin, Fran – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines the effects of service learning experiences on participants' attitudes towards the Spanish language and culture and their language proficiency. It was hypothesized that using the Spanish language outside the confines of the academic environment would affect participants' attitudes and have an impact on their language…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Service Learning
Medina, Carmen L.; del Rocio Costa, Maria – Language Arts, 2010
This piece shares preservice teachers and instructors reflections on their perceptions of a course on Spanish language arts methods in Puerto Rico. The course was redesigned to focus on interrelated curricular and pedagogical aspects such as literacies as situated social practice, funds of knowledge, popular culture and critical literacy. In…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Literacy Education, Popular Culture, Language Arts
Barrette, Catherine M.; Paesani, Kate; Vinall, Kimberly – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
This article presents an approach to literary texts that develops students' language proficiency, content knowledge, and analytical skills through the interweaving of three content areas--literary analysis, stylistics, and culture--at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of the foreign language curriculum. Consistent with…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Literary Criticism, Language Proficiency, Second Language Instruction
Mangan, Katherine – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This article describes how a 26-panel altarpiece that once adorned a 15th-century Spanish cathedral inspired faculty members and students at Southern Methodist University to spend a semester dissecting the piece in a multidisciplinary course that featured songs, floats, videos, and painting. The course sprang out of a discussion Mark Roglan,…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Elective Courses, Private Colleges, College Faculty
Viáfara, John Jairo – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2011
As an EFL Student teachers' advisor, I had constantly perceived that they regarded using the target language with their pupils inside their classroom as a challenge. That is why I became interested in investigating how thirteen student teachers in Tunja public schools faced this issue. While participants were involved in a reflective teaching…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Student Teachers, Language Usage, Public Schools
Baldwin, Jennifer – Babel, 2011
This article seeks to explore how various language policies may have impacted Year 12 language candidature in Victoria. Australian Federal and Victorian State Government language policies are but one of the influences yet, it may be argued, the most significant influence. These stand alongside waves of immigration, global events and conflicts, and…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Government Publications, Economic Factors
Yanguas, Inigo – Language Learning & Technology, 2010
This study explores task-based, synchronous oral computer-mediated communication (CMC) among intermediate-level learners of Spanish. In particular, this paper examines (a) how learners in video and audio CMC groups negotiate for meaning during task-based interaction, (b) possible differences between both oral CMC modes and traditional face-to-face…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Software
Velez-Rendon, Gloria – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
This study draws from sociocultural theory to examine how biographical factors interplay with contextual factors to shape the professional identity of a Spanish language teacher candidate. Specifically, it explores the student teaching experience of Marcos, a 30-year-old language teacher candidate from South America. Analysis of the data reveals…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Student Teaching, Foreign Students, Teaching Experience
Winke, Paula; Gass, Susan; Sydorenko, Tetyana – Language Learning & Technology, 2010
This study investigated the effects of captioning during video-based listening activities. Second- and fourth-year learners of Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, and Russian watched three short videos with and without captioning in randomized order. Spanish learners had two additional groups: one watched the videos twice with no captioning, and another…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Listening Skills, Russian, Video Technology
Hertel, Tammy Jandrey; Sunderman, Gretchen – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
This study investigates students' attitudes toward native and nonnative speaking instructors of Spanish. A quantitative questionnaire was administered to 292 students enrolled in three different levels of undergraduate Spanish courses at a U.S. university. Participants were asked to rate Likert scale items related to native versus nonnative…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes, Likert Scales, Native Speakers
VanPatten, Bill; Inclezan, Daniela; Salazar, Hilda; Farley, Andrew P. – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
In the current study, we present the findings of an experiment with 108 participants of Spanish as a second language in which we compared the effects of dictogloss (DG) and processing instruction (PI) and compared both sets of effects to a control group. Our findings do not support the results of a recent study, Qin (2008). In that study, DG and…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Language Processing, Word Order, Spanish
Amend, Amanda E.; Whitney, Carolyn A.; Messuri, Antonia T.; Furukawa, Hideko – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
A two-semester modified Spanish sequence was designed to address the needs of college students with language-based learning disabilities. This course featured reduced scope, an emphasis on tactile activities, metacognitive strategies, and adaptations to the presentation and practice of material. Performances on fall and spring semester-end essays…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Metacognition, Spanish, Sequential Learning
de los Arcos, Beatriz; Coleman, James A.; Hampel, Regine – ReCALL, 2009
Success and failure in language learning are partly determined by the learners' ability to regulate their emotions. Negative feelings are more likely to frustrate progress, while positive ones make the task of learning a second language (L2) a more effective experience. To date no significant body of research has been carried out into the role of…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Assisted Instruction
Young, Dolly Jesusita – CALICO Journal, 2008
Replacing face-to-face teaching with online instruction in higher education will become an increasingly attractive strategy for reducing instructional costs. Research on the effectiveness of online instruction, however, is sparse. The purpose of this paper is to present findings of a 2-year study that examined learner outcomes within the context…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Intensive Language Courses
Swanson, Peter B.; Schlig, Carmen – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2010
Researchers have suggested that interactional feedback is associated with foreign/second language learning because it prompts learners to notice foreign/second language forms. Using Vygotsky's zone of proximal development and Long's interaction hypothesis as conceptual frameworks, this study explores the use of systematic explicit feedback to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Feedback (Response), Interaction