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Guichot Muñoz, Elena; De Sarlo, Giulia – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
Taking as a context the reality of migration of Latinos to Europe and its repercussions in the educational field, a pedagogical practice carried out in the Master for Teachers in training at the University of Seville, Spain, is described and analyzed. Future teachers of Spanish Language and Literature work on the subject of prejudices toward…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bias, Preservice Teacher Education, Graduate Students
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Varela-Lago, Ana – Hispania, 2020
This article examines the life and work of Mary J. Serrano (1840-1923), a successful translator and popularizer of Spanish literature in late nineteenth-century United States. It provides a short biography of Serrano and focuses on her work for the Spanish Legation in in Washington D.C. during the Cuban War of Independence (1895-98), a period of…
Descriptors: War, Journalism, Translation, Biographies
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Fernando Senar; Judit Janés; Elisabet Serrat; Ángel Huguet – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The linguistic interdependence hypothesis posits the existence of language features common to different languages. This set of characteristics, known as Common Underlying Proficiency (CUP), is a powerful facilitating agent in second language acquisition. Fluid intelligence (Gf), on the other hand, is the construct that encompasses those cognitive…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Intelligence, Language Acquisition
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Lapresta-Rey, Cecilio; Janés, Judit; Alarcón, Amado – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
One of the most influential factors in the future access to the labour market of a young descendant of migrants is their occupational aspirations. Sociodemographic, socio-cultural, and socio-professional family elements or knowledge of languages are key in their formation. But in bilingual societies like Catalonia, the symbolism associated with…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Romance Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Carol A. Ready – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
In my research I examine the linguistic practices of Moroccans in Spain, many of whom speak Moroccan Arabic as well as Modern Standard Arabic, Tamazight, French, English and Spanish at varying levels of proficiency. As part of my research, I conducted a 10-month linguistic ethnography. I was able to rely on my native English and near-native…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Arabic, Language Variation, Immigrants
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Catalina Iliescu-Gheorghiu – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
Intercultural studies have underexplored the issue of children's theatre as a tool for symbolic representations of (new, hybrid) identities. In this paper, I analyze two theatrical productions addressing both Spanish society and Romanian diaspora (first/second generation) to answer these questions: how are diasporic identities re-constructed in…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Spanish
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Ali Elhami; Anita Roshan – Intercultural Education, 2024
Muslims may not experience integration or assimilation in European countries, as they have certain values regarding hijab, eating restrictions, and lifestyle. They may therefore face more challenges than other migrants. With the insight that religiosity may have an impact on migrants' national and/or ethnic identities, we look at the role of…
Descriptors: Religion, Immigrants, Ethnicity, Self Concept
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Hinostroza-Castillo, Ursula; Ianos, Maria-Adelina; Petreñas, Cristina; Lapresta-Rey, Cecilio – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2023
As a response to the migratory movements initiated at the end of the past century in Catalonia (Spain), its educational system aims to promote interculturality and multilingualism as a way to achieve social cohesion. For this purpose, it is important to improve our understanding of the linguistic acculturation preferences endorsed by local…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Acculturation, Social Integration, Cultural Pluralism
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Gilsenan, James; Lee, Frances – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2021
This study explored the experiences of recently arrived Latin American parents to the UK related to their children's education, to highlight how these experiences can inform educational practice. A small-scale qualitative design employed semi-structured interviews to give voice to five parents who had each arrived in London after time spent living…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Spanish Speaking, Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes
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Estévez Grossi, Marta – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
The aim of this contribution is to analyze the linguistic practices of a migrant collective, speakers of a minoritized language, from a glottopolitical perspective. This will be illustrated by the description of the communicative practices of the migrant workers from Galicia (Spain) in Hanover (Federal Republic of Germany) in the 1960s and beyond.…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Language Minorities, Language Usage, Migrant Workers
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Fernández-Costales, Alberto; Lapresta-Rey, Cecilio; Huguet Canalís, Ángel; González-Riaño, Xosé Antón – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2021
This paper investigates the attitudes towards English of autochthonous and immigrant students in Catalonia (Spain) by focusing on their region of origin and their language competence. The research examines the individual and the joint effect of both variables in the development of language attitudes. A questionnaire was administered to 954…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Arumí, Marta; Rubio-Carbonero, Gema – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
In many immigrant families, children often learn the language and culture of the host society quicker than adult immigrants. Consequently, children serve as language brokers, translating and interpreting face-to-face communication. The aim of this paper is to present a study based on 19 qualitative in depth interviews with young adults reporting…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Translation, Immigrants, Second Language Learning
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Sáenz-Hernández, Isabel; Lapresta-Rey, Cecilio; Petreñas, Cristina; Ianos, Maria Adelina – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study explores integration and linguistic acculturation in Catalonia (Spain), a multilingual setting where a state and a regional language coexist with those of immigration. Using qualitative content analysis, we examined the linguistic acculturation profiles of 13 high-school students of immigrant background and the linguistic acculturation…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Language Minorities
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Bermingham, Nicola – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
Multilingualism in European classrooms is the norm, not exception, and while the management of linguistic diversity is increasingly at the fore of language policy debates, policy engagement with the multilingual realities of schools continues to be inadequate, and the linguistic habitus of present-day education systems remains largely monolingual…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Mobility, Language Planning
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Lapresta-Rey, Cecilio; Huguet, Ángel; Petreñas, Cristina; Ianos, Adelina – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
Located in Catalonia (Spain), and based on the Acculturation Theory applied to the field of linguistics, the objectives of this article are: (i) to detect and study the linguistic acculturation strategies of young people; (ii) to analyse the effects of origin and linguistic acculturation profiles relating to self-identifications with Spain and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Acculturation, Language Usage, Spanish
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