NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Ethnolinguistic Identity and Spanish Proficiency in a Paradoxical Situation: The Case of Puerto Rican Return Migrants.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Clachar, Arlene – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1997
Addresses the social psychological paradox of learning a language, which in one interethnic situation represents the "ingroup" language, while in another interethnic context, it represents the "outgroup" language, a situation characterizing the language-learning experience of most Puerto Rican return migrants (PRRMs). (25…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, College Students, Context Effect, English
Methods of Teaching on the University Level to Arouse the Internal Locus of Control in Learners of Spanish as a Second language.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Clachar, Arlene – Hispania, 1999
The locus of control, whether internal or external, is an influential concept in second-language learning. One observes it, for example, in Puerto Rican students returning to Puerto Rico to take university-level courses. Explanations address a teaching method relying on use of problems with examples in such a way as to empower students. This also…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education, Hispanic Americans
Students' Reflections on the Social, Political, and Ideological Role of English in Puerto Rico.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Clachar, Arlene – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1997
Eight students taking English as a Second Language in a Puerto Rican university kept dialog journals in which they discussed English as a symbol of U.S. colonial domination of Puerto Rico and the erosion of Puerto Rican cultural identity, the relative importance of English and Spanish, and contradictions related to U.S. citizenship and the need…
Descriptors: College Students, Colonialism, Dialog Journals, Elementary Secondary Education