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Strubell, Miquel; Chamberlain, Alan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1996
Discusses bilingual educational policies in Catalonia, where the official aim is to reverse a language shift in favor of Catalan. Chamberlain's response focuses on the decline of Catalan under Franco, similarities between some minority languages in Europe and the language situation in Brunei, and the role of the school and the media in language…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Change Strategies, Diachronic Linguistics, Educational Objectives
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Echeverria, Begona – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
This paper examines the effects of Basque- versus Spanish-language schooling on the language attitudes of secondary school students in San Sebastian, in the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC) of Spain. By mandating the teaching of Basque ("euskera") in schools, and by requiring Basque proficiency of civil servants, the Basque government…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Spanish
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Lopez-Goni, Irene – History of Education Quarterly, 2005
The Basque School, as well as a type of school, is an educational phenomenon that emerged and underwent most of its development during the twentieth century. Some initial confusion existed between the terms "Basque school," "bilingual school" and "ikastola," due to the undefined nature of the Basque model of schooling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Regional Schools, Indo European Languages, Spanish Culture
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Moeller, Adeiline J., Ed.; Theiler, Janine, Ed.; Betta, Silvia, Ed. – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2008
The 2008 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, a joint conference with the Michigan World Language Association, focused on learning about the diverse backgrounds and needs of today's students and discovering new ways to help them succeed in reaching the goal of language proficiency. A wide variety of workshops and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, French
Organizacion de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educacion, la Ciencia y la Cultura, Madrid (Spain). – 1992
This directory provides information on the location and functioning of educational documentation and information services in Spain and Portugal in Europe, and in the 18 Spanish-speaking countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvader, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Bibliographic Databases, Documentation, Financial Support
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Bosch, Laura; Sebastian-Galles, Nuria – Language and Speech, 2003
Behavioral studies have shown that while young infants can discriminate many different phonetic contrasts, a shift from a language-general to a language-specific pattern of discrimination is found during the second semester of life, beginning earlier for vowels than for consonants. This age-related decline in sensitivity to perceive non-native…
Descriptors: Vowels, Infants, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
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Diaz-Campos, Manuel – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2004
Studies in SLA have debated the importance of context of learning in the process of developing linguistic skills in a second language (L2). The present paper examines whether study abroad, as it provides opportunities for authentic L2 context, facilitates the acquisition of Spanish phonology. The corpus of this investigation is composed of speech…
Descriptors: Phonology, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment
Nunez, Lucia – 1996
This unit is guided by the question "How is history constructed?" In this unit, middle to secondary school students explore a variety of accounts of the clash of cultures that occurred between the Spanish and the Aztecs. Students examine a variety of primary sources and analyze the various perspectives presented. The six activities…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Area Studies, Foreign Countries, International Relations
Bastardas, Albert – 1986
A study of the process of bilingualization of second-generation immigrants to Catalonia, a region of Spain, is described and summarized. The study looks at the interrelationships between (1) linguistic context, all sources of messages in natural speech; (2) linguistic behavior, the real communicative use the individual makes of his expressive…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adolescents, Bilingualism, Community Size
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Block, David – System, 1997
Describes the author's personal version of the action research cycle, focusing on two research experiences to point out what can be learned from research involving listening to language learners. Suggests that one can learn in two different and equally important ways; one can learn about the research question studied and about how to improve the…
Descriptors: Action Research, College Students, Concept Formation, Data Collection
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Porte, Graeme – System, 1996
Investigates the revision strategies of Spanish native-speaker undergraduates writing in two different discourse types and in two time conditions by analyzing postwriting interview protocols. Results suggest that revision strategies may be initiated by past learning experiences and respond to the perceived nature of the task and the current…
Descriptors: College Students, Context Effect, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Marsh, Herbert W.; And Others – 1984
Items from two American instruments (Students' Evaluation of Educational Effectiveness, and the Endeavor instrument) designed to measure students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness were translated into Spanish and administered to a sample of Spanish university students. Most of the items were judged by the students to be appropriate; every…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries
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Bernaus, Merce; Masgoret, Anne-Marie; Gardner, Robert C.; Reyes, Edith – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2004
This study investigated the effect of the cultural background of immigrant children on affective variables in learning three different languages. Participants were students in secondary multicultural classrooms in Spain. A total of 114 students, aged 12 to 16, answered a questionnaire based on Gardner's Attitude = Motivation Test Battery assessing…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
Leclerc, Jacques, Ed. – 1994
The volume is one of a series of six listing language-related legislation around the world. It contains the texts, in French, of laws of Andorra, Spain's central government, Spanish regions (Balearic Islands, Basque Provinces, Catalonia, and Valencia). Italy, and Italy's regions. The laws concern official languages, regional languages, language…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Courts, Educational Administration, Educational Policy
Arnau, Joaquim – 1989
A study analyzed and compared the classroom interactional strategies of two teachers of Catalan immersion classes and one teacher of Spanish as a native language in Spain at the kindergarten level. The theoretical framework guiding the study is based on analysis of the native-speaker/non-native-speaker distinction. Two comparisons were made: (1)…
Descriptors: Children, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis
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