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Gerth, Klaus-Erich – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988
Analyzes changes that have occurred in language and culture teaching in Spain, Italy, and France in each country's specific context and discusses the scientific and pedagogical implications of each country's early bilingual education developments. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, FLES
Materiales, 1997
These three journals of contemporary cultural, historical, and social interest contain activities designed to enhance the awareness of students of Spanish as a foreign language regarding the entire panorama of daily life in Spain. Number 21 focuses on the role of modern Spanish women; their career status; female authors; and the changing place of…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Cultural Awareness, Culture Contact, Females
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Lin, Yue-Hong; Hedgcock, John – Language Learning, 1996
Analyzes the incorporation patterns of well-educated, but low proficiency, Chinese immigrants (n=4) to Spain and of high-proficiency Chinese university students (n=4) with extensive formal training in Spanish. Findings reveal that whereas the university students showed awareness of error and successfully incorporated native speakers' corrections,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Error Correction
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Perez-Albeniz, A.; de Paul, Joaquin – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2004
Objectives: The present research was designed to study empathy in high-risk parents for child physical abuse. The main objective was to study if high-risk mothers and fathers, compared to low-risk mothers and fathers, presented more Personal distress, less Perspective-taking, less Empathic concern and a deficit in dispositional empathy toward…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Child Abuse, At Risk Persons, Foreign Countries
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Grabe, Esther; Rosner, Burton S.; Garcia-Albea, Jose E.; Zhou, Xiaolin – Language and Speech, 2003
Native language affects the perception of segmental phonetic structure, of stress, and of semantic and pragmatic effects of intonation. Similarly, native language might influence the perception of similarities and differences among intonation contours. To test this hypothesis, a cross-language experiment was conducted. An English utterance was…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Intonation, Semantics, Multidimensional Scaling
Gragg, Michele; Tcachuk, Alejandra – 1985
The two most commonly used language proficiency tests offered in the United States by foreign countries' chambers of commerce are those of Spain and France. The Spanish test has been introduced recently and has no rigorous and uniform set of rules governing its administration at all centers. Issues arising from the administration of this exam…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Grading, International Cooperation
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Curcó, Carmen – AILA Review, 2005
This paper analyzes patterns of code switching found in a small group of first and second generation Catalan immigrants in Mexico, and is part of a wider study on the impact of exile upon the construction of identity in the discourse of political immigrants in Latin America. With regard to the pragmatic exploitation of code switching, it argues…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Code Switching (Language), Spanish, Romance Languages
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Lleo, Conxita; Prinz, Michael – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Analyzes monolingual Spanish- and German-speaking children's production of target consonant clusters at early stages of acquisition from a phonological representational perspective. At the beginning stages, target clusters are reduced to a single consonantal position, due to lack of branching of the syllable constituents. At later stages, cluster…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Bilingualism, Child Language, Cluster Analysis
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Cenoz, Jasone; Valencia, Jose F. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1994
The influence of bilingualism on third language learning in a bilingual community is examined. Measures of the English-language achievement of students instructed through the majority (Spanish) and minority (Basque) languages, suggest that bilingualism and other variables (intelligence, motivation, age, exposure) were good predictors of…
Descriptors: Basque, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Sanz, Cristina – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2000
Compares the acquisition of English as a third language by Catalan/Spanish bilingual high school students in an immersion program with the acquisition of English by Spanish monolinguals. Data from 201 participants were submitted to a hierarchical multiple regression analysis, rendering results that show that bilingualism has a positive effect on…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Masgoret, Anne-Marie; Bernaus, Merce; Gardner, Robert C. – Foreign Language Annals, 2000
Investigated British university students who worked as English monitors in an "Enjoy English" program in Spain. Assessed the monitors attitudes toward Spain, the Spanish people, motivation to learn Spanish, adjustment to Spanish culture, self-ratings of Spanish proficiency, and supervisors ratings of their personalities and success as…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Goikoetxea, Edurne – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
Evidence of phonological awareness levels usually comes from English-speaking children. The evidence in Spanish is scarce. The present study examined the phonological awareness of syllables, onsets--rimes, and phonemes, extending the Treiman and Zukowski (1991) results to preliterate and literate Spanish-speaking children. The sample comprised…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Emergent Literacy, Spanish Speaking, Syllables
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Hollyman, John, Ed.; Turk, Phil, Ed. – Vida Hispanica: The Spanish and Portuguese Journal of the Association for Language Learning, 1997
This journal focuses on the learning and teaching of Spanish and Portuguese. Selected articles include the following: "Word Associations in Spanish"; "A Woman of Substance? The Role of Andrea in Nada"; "Spanish for Business"; "Subtitles as a Teaching Technique"; "The Writing Workshop";…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Communication, Classroom Techniques, College Students
Sierra, Josu – 1998
A discussion of bilingual education in the Basque Country of Spain presents and compares three language education program/policy models: (1) the traditional approach to language instruction as a subject area, found to be minimally effective in developing second language skills; (2) partial immersion, originally with instruction almost exclusively…
Descriptors: Basque, Bilingual Education, Educational History, Educational Policy
Mar-Molinero, Clare – 1989
The present status and position of the Catalan language are assessed, and the language planning activities being carried out in Catalonia to promote it are examined. The historical development of Catalan is outlined, and the current situation in Catalonia is described, focusing on its uses among immigrants and in modern mass communications. The…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Language Planning
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