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Towards a National Strategy for Capacity-Building in Heritage Languages and Spanish: A Response to "America's Languages: Investing in Language Education for the 21st Century"
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Carreira, María M. – Hispania, 2018
The year 2017 saw the publication of one of the strongest endorsements of language education on record: "America's Languages: Investing in Language Education for the 21st Century" (henceforth "America's Languages"). Commissioned by a bipartisan group of members of Congress and authored by the Commission on Language Learning of…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
La Imagen Publica y Professional del Espanol en Yanquilandia - y Como Mejorarla (The Public and Professional Image of Spanish in "Yankee-Land" and How to Improve It).
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Mead, Robert G., Jr. – Hispania, 1981
Decries the stereotypes and prejudices that affect U. S. relations with the Hispanic world and with its own Hispanic minorities. Points out that these attitudes also affect the study of Spanish as a foreign language and suggests means by which educators can improve the Hispanic image among Anglo Americans. (MES)
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Cultural Centers, Ethnic Stereotypes, Ethnocentrism
Methods of Teaching on the University Level to Arouse the Internal Locus of Control in Learners of Spanish as a Second language.
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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