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Oliva, Kathia Salomé Ibacache; Munoz-Diaz, Javier; Berry, Caitlin M.; Vance, Eric A. – College & Research Libraries, 2020
As inclusion becomes a growing standard for universities in the United States, data extracted from OCLC suggest that university libraries in the United States build their Spanish-language collections with books purchased primarily in Spain and Mexico. This overlooks presses from 19 other Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas. This research is…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Materials, Hispanic Americans, Spanish Speaking
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Rosemberg, Celia Renata; Alam, Florencia; Audisio, Cynthia Pamela; Ramirez, María Laura; Garber, Leandro; Migdalek, Maia Julieta – First Language, 2020
This article examines the input to Argentinian Spanish-learning children from low and middle socioeconomic status (SES). It aims to determine whether the vocabulary composition (nouns and verbs) of their input varies as a function of SES, the addressee and other contextual variables such as the type of activity and the pragmatic orientation of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish, Vocabulary Development, Nouns
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Camus, Pablo; Advani, Mehak – Hispania, 2021
Study abroad (SA) provides a space and place for second language (L2) learners to be challenged in terms of their target language skills and intercultural awareness. In order to appropriately equip learners, a task-based approach seems ideal to identify learners' specific needs (Long 2015). The present study reports a multiphase needs analysis…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Student Needs, Spanish
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Sotomayor, Carmen; Coloma, Carmen Julia; Chaf, Gabriela; Osorio, Gabriela; Jéldrez, Elvira – Research Papers in Education, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to comprehend the importance that grammar has in the teaching of writing in the Hispanic American countries and Spain. To achieve this, the discussion that has taken place in these countries about the importance of sentence grammar in the teaching of writing is analysed. Three proposals for the contextualised teaching…
Descriptors: Grammar, Writing Instruction, Sentences, Writing Processes
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García-Amaya, Lorenzo; Lang, Sean – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
This article investigates the effects of long-term bilingualism on the production of filled pauses (FPs; e.g., "uh," "um," "eh," "em") in the speech of Afrikaans-Spanish bilinguals from Patagonia, Argentina. The instrumental analysis draws from a corpus of sociolinguistic interviews obtained from three…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Indo European Languages, Spanish, Computational Linguistics
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Rosemberg, Celia Renata; Alam, Florenciaa; Ramirez, María Laura; Ibañez, María Ileana – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
This study examines the quantity and quality of child-directed speech across household activities in a socioeconomically diverse sample of Argentinian Spanish-speaking children, an understudied population. Thirty children (mean: 14.3 months) and their families were audio-recorded for four hours. The middle two hours were transcribed and analysed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Play, Food
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Bayona, Sandra; Percara, Antonella – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2021
Effective communication is a fundamental aspect of human relationships and a key interpersonal skill to be considered and developed at an EFL Teacher Education Program. Yet, a variety of challenges are posed for those in the process of becoming (proficient) users of English in an environment where Spanish is the main means of communication. Our…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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de Simone, Julieta; Cevasco, Jazmín – Reading Psychology, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of the causal connectivity of the statements ("their total number of causal connections") and the modality of presentation of discourse ("oral-written") in the generation of emotion inferences by Spanish-speaking students. With this aim, we asked a group of Argentine college…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Emotional Response, Inferences
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Cupani, Marcos; Morán, Valeria Estefanía; Azpilicueta, Ana Estefanía; Piccolo, Natalia Vanina; Artuso, Florencia – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2019
Introduction: The Alternate Forms Public Domain (AFPD) RIASEC markers are tools that since its creation have been widely used in various cultures for the study of personality and interests, mainly in the academic field. The main purpose of the present study was to develop a Spanish version of the AFPD RIASEC and analyze their psychometric…
Descriptors: Spanish, Psychometrics, College Students, Validity
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Requena, Pablo E.; Tissera, María Victoria – Hispania, 2018
This study examines how faithfully second language (L2) Spanish textbooks represent the variability found in natural language use with regard to variable clitic placement (VCP). We offer a corpus study of VCP in the language used throughout nine Spanish L2 textbooks, which constitute all the available textbooks designed to teach Rioplatense…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Languages, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Standards
Guajardo, Gustavo – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Spanish generally shows a Sequence of Tense (SOT) phenomenon in subjunctive clauses: the tense of the embedded clause (present or past) must agree with the tense of the matrix clause. It has been reported, however, that one kind of violation sometimes occurs, in which a present tense subjunctive clause is embedded under a past tense matrix clause…
Descriptors: Spanish, Grammar, Morphemes, Semantics
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Banegas, Darío Luis; Roberts, Grisel – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study examines the motivations of learners studying Welsh in the city of Esquel, Argentine Patagonia. Welsh is considered a heritage immigrant language in this region, given the fact that a group of Welsh settlers arrived in 1865 and established successful settlements. After a flourishing period, the process of acculturation reduced the…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Maintenance, Immigrants, Heritage Education
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Pangrazio, Luci; Godhe, Anna-Lena; Ledesma, Alejo González López – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2020
Many scholars across the world have studied the knowledge, skills and dispositions needed to use digital media. Yet as digital texts have proliferated and evolved, there has been much conjecture over what it means to be 'digitally literate'. As literacy researchers from Australia, Sweden and Argentina we are concerned with the drive to standardise…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Analysis, Definitions
Kathryn S. McCarthy; Christian Soto; Cecilia Malbrán; Liliana Fonseca; Marian Simian; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2018
Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking en Español, or iSTART-E, is a new intelligent tutoring system (ITS) that provides reading comprehension strategy training for Spanish speakers. This paper reports on studies evaluating the efficacy of iSTART-E in real-world classrooms in two different Spanish-speaking countries. In…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Spanish Speaking, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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Diuk, Beatriz; Barreyro, Juan Pablo; Ferroni, Marina; Mena, Milagros; Serrano, Francisca – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2019
Reading difficulties of children growing up in poverty contexts have not received as much attention as those of children from middle-income families. This paper analyzes the reading-related cognitive profiles of Argentine, Spanish-speaking, low-SES children with reading difficulties (RD), by comparing them with chronological age- (CA) and reading…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Socioeconomic Status, Cognitive Processes, Profiles
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