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Martinsen, Rob A. – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
Increasing numbers of students are opting for study abroad programs of 2 months or less while research on study abroad generally focuses on semester- or year-long programs. This study quantitatively examines changes in students' spoken Spanish after 6 weeks in Argentina using native speaker ratings of student speech. The researcher then uses…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, Language Skills, Native Speakers
Rosemberg, Celia Renata; Stein, Alejandra; Borzone, Ana Maria – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2011
The study analyzes the lexical properties of the linguistic context that children from marginalized urban neighborhoods from Buenos Aires, Argentina, are exposed to in the literacy situations generated by an at-home early literacy program. The analysis is focused on the comparison of the vocabulary that these children are exposed to daily with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergent Literacy, Vocabulary Development, Young Children
Massone, Maria Ignacia; Baez, Monica – Sign Language Studies, 2009
High illiteracy rates among the Argentine deaf population, even after long years of schooling, point to the need to revise certain approaches to deaf literacy, particularly in school settings. Qualitative change in deaf literacy requires the use of multiple conceptual tools if learners are to be able to tackle its complexity without reductionism…
Descriptors: Written Language, Sign Language, Deafness, Illiteracy
DeKeyser, Robert – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
In an effort to understand better how and why accuracy in speaking develops during study abroad, a group of 16 U.S. students of Spanish as a second language were followed during their 6-week program in Argentina. They were interviewed in Spanish at the beginning and the end of their stay, each time followed by a stimulated recall session. They…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Aptitude Tests, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
Rojas-Sosa, Deyanira – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study investigates how heterosexuality is performed and achieved in everyday language use, specifically in personal ads from the Internet. Within personal ads, it focuses on the metaphors used by ad posters to articulate concepts of love, desire, gender and sexuality. The aim was to determine how the use of certain metaphors reflects ad…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Sexual Orientation, Intimacy, Social Values
Furlan, Luis Alberto; Cassady, Jerrell C.; Perez, Edgardo Raul – International Journal of Testing, 2009
A new Spanish version of the Cognitive Test Anxiety Scale (CTAS) was created to be used explicitly with Argentinean university students. The scale was translated and verified through blind back translation and given to a large sample of students majoring in psychology or chemistry (N = 752). Exploratory Factor Analysis (N = 376) showed an internal…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Cognitive Tests, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis
Valderrey, Carmen – Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, 1973
Descriptors: Ballads, Epics, Legends, Literature
McMahon, April – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
Using evidence from first-hand experimental work and existing studies, Colantoni and Gurlekian take a tentative but encouraging step towards exploring the role of contact in explaining intonational change. Their central question is whether Buenos Aires Spanish intonation is distinctive relative to other varieties of Spanish; and if so, whether…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Spanish, Suprasegmentals, Intonation
Zapata, Gabriela C.; Lacorte, Manel – Foreign Language Annals, 2007
This article describes the first part of a study that explores the metaphorical language used by 64 second language (L2) Spanish and English as a foreign language (EFL) pre- and inservice teaching assistants and instructors in their conceptualization of L2 teachers and students. The article investigates the philosophical perspective embedded in…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Figurative Language, Teaching Assistants, Preservice Teachers
Porto, Melina – Foreign Language Annals, 2007
The aim of this study was to learn from students' frame of reference how they experience foreign language classes. Data include learning diaries written during 2005 for more than 35 weeks (March to November). Subjects were 95 Argentine, Caucasian, mostly female, middle-class, Spanish-speaking College students between 19 and 21 years of age who…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Personal Autonomy, Diaries
Schein, Jerome D. – ACEHI Journal/Revue ACEDA, 1995
Spanish Sign Language (SSL) is now the second most used sign language. This article introduces resources for the study of SSL, including three SSL dictionaries--two from Argentina and one from Puerto Rico. Differences in SSL between and within the two countries are noted. Implications for deaf educators in North America are drawn. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Deafness, Dialects, Dictionaries, Elementary Secondary Education

Ruiz-Funes, Marcela – 1999
A significant number of Hispanic children's books and juvenile short stories and novels produced in the last two decades reveal the social and cultural elements that affect the lives, traditions, and beliefs of young adults from Spanish-speaking countries. These books contain sociocultural realism, yet with a touch of the innocence and freshness…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Stefanovics, Tomas – Yelmo, 1978
Presents 26 German words and phrases that are used in Spanish today. Definitions are provided and examples of their use in Spanish texts are given. (NCR)
Descriptors: Definitions, German, Language Usage, Language Variation

Massone, Maria Ignacia; Johnson, Robert E. – Sign Language Studies, 1991
Contrasts the kinship terminology of Argentine Sign Language (LSA) with standard Spanish kinship terminology employed by nondeaf members in Argentine society. The combination of male and female terms and the frequency of reciprocal terms in LSA demonstrates that Argentine deaf society is culturally distinct in important ways from mainstream…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Deafness, Females, Foreign Countries
Rossi Etchelouz, Nelly Yvis – 1970
This booklet describes the information and documentation services available within the regional area of the National University of Litoral. The basis and general functions of the service are considered, as well as the organizational and functional structure and subjects given priority in the system. The general functions are fourfold: library…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Documentation, Educational Improvement, Educational Research