Our country, which is today the Dominican Republic, is a Spanish speaking country due to the historical and well known fact that the then Hispaniola Island or Santo Domingo was split into two different colonies by effect of the Aranjuez Treaty (1777), held between the two Colonial Metropolis of Spain and France thus establishing the French…

The present work is a historical/linguistic account of an unprecedented fact regarding the existence of two English Speaking Communities [British English and American English], in a country like the Dominican Republic, where Spanish is the official and most used language, to the extent of being considered a monolingual nation or country. It is…

Pablo, a Spanish-speaking student from the Dominican Republic, had entered the ESL program. During the first few weeks, he could not understand most instruction in English. He was not able to produce full sentences in English. He proved to have relatively advanced skills in terms of reading and writing in his home language, Spanish, and in turn,…