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Lowther Pereira, Kelly Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines the negotiation of language ideologies and identity construction amongst university intermediate level Spanish Heritage Language (SHL) learners in the U.S. Southwest. Combining sociolinguistic and ethnographic methods with discourse analysis, this study seeks to provide deeper insight into the linguistic practices and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Ideology, Participant Observation, Focus Groups
Rivera-Mills, Susana V. – Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) (NJ3), 2010
Learning Communities (LC) represent an alternative model of teaching and learning in higher education that can foster intercultural competence and knowledge. "Some of the distinctive features of LCs are that they are usually smaller than most units on campus, they help overcome the isolation of faculty members from one another and their…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Spanish, College Faculty, Cultural Awareness
Lee, Lina – Language Learning & Technology, 2011
The current study explores closely how using a combined modalities of asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) via blogs and face-to-face (FTF) interaction through ethnographic interviews with native speakers (L1s) supports autonomous learning as the result of reflective and social processes. The study involves 16 American undergraduate…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Undergraduate Students, Web Sites, Intercultural Communication
Theodoridou, Katerina – Educational Media International, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of an animated pedagogical agent on Spanish vocabulary learning. Furthermore, the study examined learners' reactions and attitudes towards the presence of the pedagogical agent in the web-based environments. A total of 47 university students enrolled in two fourth-semester Spanish classes…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Grounded Theory, Vocabulary Development, Learning Experience
Lam, Yvonne – Language Awareness, 2009
L2 prepositions are traditionally taught in a non-explanatory manner by having students learn each use individually. This study examines the effectiveness of an alternative explanatory approach based on cognitive linguistics, which considers the multiple uses of a preposition as related. Consequently, learners can be shown a general schema that…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Writing (Composition), Form Classes (Languages), Linguistics
Anton, Marta – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
This article reports on the implementation of diagnostic assessment in an advanced Spanish language program at the university level. Particular attention is given to the use of dynamic assessment practices as a way to assess language abilities, intervene in learning, and document learners' growth. Dynamic assessment is conceptually based on…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Advanced Students, Second Language Learning, Diagnostic Tests
Nunes, Miguel Baptista, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
These proceedings contain the papers and posters of the International Conference on e-Learning (EL) 2019, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and co-organised by the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, in Porto, Portugal, July 17-19, 2019. The EL 2019 conference aims to address the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Mathematics Instruction, Cooperation
Oxford, Raquel – Hispania, 2010
Change in higher education, as manifested in curriculum reform, can be particularly difficult as the structures of academia, such as rank and tradition, retard the process. Two recent reports from the Modern Language Association (MLA) strive to address needed curricular adaptations and offer a roadmap of considerations for modifications. The 2007…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Business, Educational Change
Pomerantz, Anne – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2008
This article builds on Norton and Toohey's (2001) critique of good language learner (GLL) research to illustrate how college students in an advanced Spanish conversation course drew on particular ideologies of language and foreign language learning to construct and negotiate their classroom identities. I argue that these ideologies were implicated…
Descriptors: Language Research, Second Language Learning, Ideology, Spanish
Barcroft, Joe – Language Awareness, 2009
This study was designed to identify strategies used during intentional vocabulary learning and to assess the relationship between strategy use and vocabulary learning performance. English-speaking students of Spanish studied new Spanish words while viewing word-picture pairs. The participants then completed posttests and answered questions about…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Predictor Variables, Correlation, Scores
Leons, Eve; Herbert, Christie; Gobbo, Ken – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
This article explores why students with learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) struggle with the foreign language curriculum and how their difficulties manifest themselves in the classroom setting. Findings of a three-year, federally funded study that sought to combine expertise in the field of learning…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Disabilities, Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders
Brooks, Wendy – ProQuest LLC, 2010
A major challenge for the increasing multicultural and multilingual community college student population has been the difficulty in accessing the register features which define academic writing. In this study, an analysis of clause structures using writing samples collected from 45 community-college students, 15 from African-American, Haitian and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Students, Black Dialects, Multilingualism
Keng, Leslie; Dodd, Barbara G. – College Board, 2010
This study sought to compare the performance of students in the College Board Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) compared to non-AP students on a number of college outcome measures. Ten individual AP Exams were examined in this study of students in four entering classes (1998-2001) at the University of Texas at Austin. The four main groups of…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Academic Achievement, College Students, Outcome Measures
Macizo, Pedro; Van Petten, Cyma – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
The importance of phonological syllables in recognition and pronunciation of visual words has been demonstrated in languages with a high degree of spelling-sound correspondence. In Spanish, multisyllabic words with frequent first syllables are named more quickly than those with less frequent first syllables, but receive slower lexical decisions.…
Descriptors: Lexicology, Syllables, Word Recognition, Cognitive Processes
Gimeno, Ana, Ed. – European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), 2011
"The EUROCALL Review" is published online biannually by the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL). This issue offers regular sections on: (1) up-to-date information on Special Interest Groups; (2) reports on on-going CALL or CALL-related R&D projects in which EUROCALL members participate; (3) reports…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Interference (Language)