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Herrera, Luis Javier Pentón; Duany, Miriam – NECTFL Review, 2016
Native Spanish speakers from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, who are also English language learners, are a growing population of students in the K-12 classrooms throughout the United States. This particular group of students is oftentimes placed in Spanish-as-a-foreign-language classes that fail to meet their linguistic development…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish, Spanish Speaking, Native Speakers
Ostler, Nicholas, Ed.; Rudes, Blair, Ed. – 2000
Papers for the fourth Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) Conference include the following: "Endangered languages and Literacy" (Nicholas Ostler, Blair Rudes); "Keynote Address: On Native Language Literacy: a Personal Perspective" (Ofelia Zepeda); "A Community's Solution to Some Literacy Problems: The Mayangna of…
Descriptors: American Indians, Applied Linguistics, Dialects, Foreign Countries
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Kadler, Eric H. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Describes features of articulatory shortcuts discovered among middle class, educated native speakers of Spanish in Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador. It is maintained that these features should be taught to students of Spanish in order that they may understand colloquial Spanish speech. (AM)
Descriptors: Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Language Instruction