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Morrison, Astrid; Tavakoli, Parvaneh – Modern Language Journal, 2023
To respond to recent calls for examining oral fluency from a broader social and communicative perspective, the current study aimed at investigating the effects of task communicative function on second language (L2) and first language (L1) speakers' fluency. Designing tasks that represent three different communicative functions (congratulations,…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Fluency, Native Language, Spanish
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Nagle, Charlie L.; Huensch, Amanda; Zárate-Sández, Germán – Modern Language Journal, 2023
Although current approaches to second language (L2) pronunciation underscore that instruction should concentrate on pronunciation features that help learners be more intelligible (and not necessarily more native like), there is little empirical evidence as to what those features are, especially in languages other than English. To address this gap,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Phonetics, Intelligibility
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Fallas-Escobar, Christian; Henderson, Kathryn; Lindahl, Kristen – Modern Language Journal, 2022
This critical discourse analysis study examines Latinx primary and secondary school teacher candidates' (TCs) struggles with raciolinguistic ideologies that connect speaking Spanish to being authentically Latinx. Data came from a larger qualitative project, in which these TCs engaged in reflexive language ideology and awareness tasks, as part of…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Preservice Teachers, Student Experience, Racial Bias
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Fernández-Dobao, Ana – Modern Language Journal, 2023
Drawing on positioning theory and Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of mind, this study analyzes the discursive processes through which expert and novice positions are negotiated in heritage-second language (HL-L2) learner interaction. It examines how positioning practices shape collaboration between HL and L2 learners, determining what types of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Language, Spanish, Collaborative Writing
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Naoko Taguchi; Elizabeth Hanks – Modern Language Journal, 2024
Research indicates that high-immersion virtual reality (VR) has several unique affordances for language learning that contribute to learning outcomes, such as boosting learners' confidence, engagement, and motivation. However, little is known about the extent to which VR promotes language skills, in particular learners' verbal interaction using a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Electronic Learning, Computer Simulation, Educational Technology
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Leow, Ronald P.; Thinglum, Anne; Havenne, Maude; Tseng, Rina – Modern Language Journal, 2022
This study investigated the researcher-teacher interface issue by exploring second language (L2) teachers' experiences of being involved in a large instructed second language acquisition empirical study aimed at curricular changes. The study addressed two goals. First, by involving the entire teaching staff at all levels of the multisection…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Theory Practice Relationship, Language Teachers
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Watzinger-Tharp, Johanna; Tharp, Douglas S.; Rubio, Fernando – Modern Language Journal, 2021
Dual language immersion (DLI) as an alternative model to monolingual English-medium education has continued to expand rapidly over the past decade. As this model continues to grow across the United States, stakeholders look to research to demonstrate sustainability and scalability of dual language programs. Drawing on 224 schools, the statewide…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, French, Spanish, Language Proficiency
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Sparks, Richard L. – Modern Language Journal, 2021
The simple view of reading (SVR) model proposes that reading comprehension is the product of cognitive domain skills, word decoding, and oral language (linguistic) comprehension, and that decoding and language comprehension make separate, independent contributions to reading comprehension. The SVR has been supported in both first (L1) and second…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading), Oral Language, Native Language
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Jaume Batlle Rodríguez; Natalia Evnitskaya – Modern Language Journal, 2024
In classrooms, teachers play a fundamental role in managing students' participation. As part of their classroom interactional competence to maximize interactional space for students' learning, teachers use multimodal resources to orchestrate turn-taking, allocate the next speaker, and manage repair sequences. However, little is known about how…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Error Correction, Nonverbal Communication, Personal Autonomy
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Herman, Eric; Leeser, Michael J. – Modern Language Journal, 2022
This study examined the relationship between lexical coverage (i.e., the percentage of known word tokens in a text) and second language (L2) reading comprehension. Several studies have suggested that adequate comprehension occurs between 95% and 98% coverage, but no study has investigated beginning-level learners reading under the conditions of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kristin J. Davin; Richard Donato – Modern Language Journal, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine the career trajectories of two teachers in the United States and their decision to leave teaching Spanish. Data for the study emerged from the teachers' narratives about their school-based experiences and the consequences of those experiences on their decisions to reorient their work in the educational…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Teaching Experience
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L. Sparks, Richard; S. Dale, Philip; M. Patton, Jon – Modern Language Journal, 2023
Although most children learn to communicate in their first language (L1), there is normal and expected variation in their rate of acquisition across all components of the language system. Until recently, most second language acquisition and second language (L2) researchers have assumed that individual differences (IDs) in L1 acquisition are small…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Correlation, Secondary School Students
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Zalbidea, Janire; Issa, Bernard I.; Faretta-Stutenberg, Mandy – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Evidence suggests that short-term study abroad experiences can help advance various dimensions of second language (L2) learners' linguistic competence. However, the extent to which gains following a brief sojourn are durable and maintained after immersion remains an open question. The present study examined both the immediate and sustained…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Study Abroad, Student Behavior, Psychological Patterns
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Medina, Almitra; Socarras, Gilda; Krishnamurti, Sridhar – Modern Language Journal, 2020
This study explored the influence of speech rate (normal vs. fast), sentence length (short vs. long), and second language (L2) oral proficiency on listening comprehension in L2 Spanish. Thirty-one native English-speaking learners enrolled in upper-level Spanish courses were aurally exposed to 8 sentences of each type of speed--length matrix, for a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Listening Comprehension, Speech Skills
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Yilmaz, Yucel; Arroyo, Diana; Carver, Carly; Choi, Jungyoun; Dibartolomeo, Megan – Modern Language Journal, 2023
This study compares the effects of distributed versus massed corrective feedback (CF) on Spanish differential object marking (DOM). Forty-eight Spanish learners completed three communicative tasks with a researcher on three consecutive days, one task per day. Partial recasts were used to reformulate DOM errors. The distributed group (n = 16)…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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