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Sedor, Nicole – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
This longitudinal, multi-semester study investigates the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) in university-level communicative Spanish classrooms to find out how instructor feedback affects student performance on IPA assessments, if at all, and in what ways do teachers and students use feedback from the IPAs in their teaching and learning, if…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Tests, Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation
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Angela Gardner; Karen Lichtman – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
This study investigated how questioning strategies impact language learner performance. Specifically, it explored how questioning strategies influence (i) verb production and subject-verb agreement in the target language, and (ii) learner confidence in completing tasks without translation software. Sixty-eight novice language learners enrolled in…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Second Language Learning, Spanish, High School Students
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Gómez Soler, Inmaculada; Fuentes, Ronald – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
While much of the literature regarding Spanish as a heritage language has focused on higher education institutions and areas of traditional immigration in the United States, less research has specifically examined Spanish heritage language learner (HLL) policies in states like Tennessee that have recently experienced an exponential rise in the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Native Language Instruction, Hispanic American Students, Spanish Speaking
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David Cassels Johnson; Melanie Carbine; Christine Shea – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
This study analyzes the programs and policies for Spanish heritage language (SHL) students in Iowa high schools. Previous research suggests that SHL students do not enjoy equitable educational experiences in Spanish language classrooms, which are often taught by and designed for traditional second language learners. In US states like Iowa, there…
Descriptors: Ideology, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Kerber, Noelle; Shea, Jacqueline; Tecedor, Marta – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
This study examines the impact of instructor-led (IL) versus self-access (SA) web-based pragmatic instruction on novice second language learners' (n = 28) awareness and oral production of Spanish apologies. Two sections of a second-semester Spanish course were assigned to either the IL or the SA group. The web-based resource "Dancing with…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Oral Language
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Padilla, Amado M.; Chen, Xinjie; Swanson, Elizabeth; Peterson, Margaret; Peruzzaro, Amy – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
Five cohorts of students (N = 322) who completed a K-5 Spanish Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program in an urban school district were followed longitudinally through middle and high school completion. Academic and language achievement data included English Language Arts and Mathematics scores on the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) test…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Spanish, Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education
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Sara M. Beaudrie; Anna Marrero-Rivera – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
Research on Spanish heritage language (SHL) education has grown exponentially in the last two decades. The most recent nationwide study on SHL programs in US postsecondary institutions was conducted a decade ago. To continue this line of research, the primary aim of this study is to provide an update about the current state of SHL course offerings…
Descriptors: Language Research, Native Language, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Joanne Koh – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
Reading-while-listening (RWL) has been suggested to facilitate reading comprehension by establishing letter-to-sound correspondences in the word recognition process. However, previous findings are inconsistent regarding the effect of RWL on foreign language (L2) reading comprehension. To understand why such inconsistency occurs, the moderating…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Listening Skills, Orthographic Symbols
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Dykstra, Shelley; Sánchez-Gutiérrez, Claudia; Marcos Miguel, Nausica; Alins Breda, Diego – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
While the literature on second language reading agrees that exposing students to graded readers (GRs) is beneficial, little is known about how students perceive them. This study explores students' anxiety and overall experiences in a reading program (RP) using GRs in a large first-year Spanish language program. Data are based on 312 students' pre…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Spanish, College Second Language Programs
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Hancock, Charlotte R.; Adams, Mary J.; Kissau, Scott – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
Over past decades, there has been a paradigm shift in WL instruction, moving away from traditional, grammar-based programs and toward instruction that promotes student proficiency in the target language. Despite this growing attention to proficiency-based instruction, few studies have investigated the relationship between proficiency-based…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Language Proficiency, Oral Language, Outcomes of Education
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Maimone, Luciane; Jolley, Jason – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
This article reports the results of an empirical study designed to determine the degree to which college instructors of Spanish can distinguish between machine translation (MT) and non-MT writing samples produced by second language (L2) learners of Spanish in an intermediate-level writing course. We also investigated relationships between…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Language Teachers, Spanish, Identification
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Jerónimo, Heather; Martin, Allysha – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
Research on social media in the foreign language classroom has grown significantly in the last 10 years. However, there continues to be a gap in how social media, Twitter in particular, can be used as a tool to build community within a Spanish as a second-language literature classroom. The current action research project seeks to address this gap.…
Descriptors: Social Media, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Pardo-Ballester, Cristina – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
This case study examines an online introductory Spanish-English translation course focused on learning Spanish through machine translation. Fifty-three Spanish learners were guided by their teacher to rethink, reflect, and interpret what Google Translate offered. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of learners' reports and teacher feedback…
Descriptors: Translation, Teaching Methods, Online Courses, Introductory Courses
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Spino, LeAnne L.; Echevarría, Megan M.; Wu, Yu – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
The ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview--computer (OPIc) employs a self-assessment instrument to determine the nature of the speaking prompts to which the test taker will respond and, thus the difficulty of the test. Grounded in research demonstrating varying levels of accuracy in self-assessment among language learners, this study examines the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Borden, Rebecca – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to uncover how high-achieving university Spanish instructors engage in the core practice of building a classroom discourse community at a doctoral-level university in the southwestern United States. The second goal of this study was to determine whether student performance on reading and writing…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Second Language Programs, Spanish, High Achievement
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