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García, Paula B.; Leibold, Lori; Buss, Emily; Calandruccio, Lauren; Rodriguez, Barbara – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of code-switching on Spanish/English bilingual listeners' speech recognition of English and Spanish words in the presence of competing speech-shaped noise. Method: Participants were Spanish/English bilingual adults (N = 27) who were highly proficient in both languages. Target stimuli…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Guillot, Marie-Noëlle – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2019
This article focuses on linguistic and cultural representation in AVT as a medium of intercultural literacy. It has two objectives: it puts to the test increasingly accepted assumptions about AVT modalities' distinctive meaning potential and expressive capacity, with a case study of communicative practices in their representation, via AVT, in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Intercultural Communication, Literacy, Cultural Awareness
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Caruso, Marcelo – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2019
Calligraphic culture in education had a long tradition in the Hispanic World. This entailed the cultivation of specific forms of script to the detriment of others. Since the late eighteenth century, discussions about the shape of letters and the differences between different alphabets were associated with national characters. The "letra…
Descriptors: Educational History, Written Language, Alphabets, English
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Ordin, Mikhail; Polyanskaya, Leona; Gómez, David Maximiliano; Samuel, Arthur G. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: We investigated whether rhythm discrimination is mainly driven by the native language of the listener or by the fundamental design of the human auditory system and universal cognitive mechanisms shared by all people irrespective of rhythmic patterns in their native language. Method: In multiple experiments, we asked participants to listen…
Descriptors: Language Rhythm, Spanish, French, German
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Jacobs, April; Fricke, Melinda; Kroll, Judith F. – Language Learning, 2016
Three groups of native English speakers named words aloud in Spanish, their second language (L2). Intermediate proficiency learners in a classroom setting (Experiment 1) and in a domestic immersion program (Experiment 2) were compared to a group of highly proficient English-Spanish speakers. All three groups named cognate words more quickly and…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, Language Processing
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Balloffet, Liana; Téllez, Kip – Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research, 2021
Despite the widespread popularity of both Dual Language Programs (DLP) and charter schools in California, little is known about the intersection of these two school models. In a quantitative study utilizing several statewide databases, researchers explored four questions related to DLP and charter schools: 1) How many Latina/x/o students attend…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Elementary School Students, Charter Schools, Bilingual Education
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Syrett, Kristen; Austin, Jennifer; Sanchez, Liliana – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2021
Quantificational elements such as some pose a challenge to young language learners, given their vague meaning and ability to take on an upper-bounded interpretation (relative to "all") in certain contexts. The challenge is enhanced when a child is acquiring multiple languages that do not share a one-to-one mapping between their lexical…
Descriptors: English, Monolingualism, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
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Egorova, Maia A.; Ruiz, T. A. Zapata – NORDSCI, 2021
It is impossible to imagine a modern person with higher education who would have never studied one or several foreign languages and would not be familiar with the culture of different countries. Especially in the modern world, in which knowledge of languages serves not only as a way of cognition, but also as a key to self-realization both in one's…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interference (Language), Higher Education
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Sara Fernández Cuenca; Sean Michael Muller – Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 2021
Language interaction has been shown to positively impact second language development (Long, 1996). However, whereas research that examined interactionist approaches to second language acquisition (Gass & Mackey, 2006) has meticulously studied how different factors in the interaction (interactional context, type of task, etc) may affect L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Task Analysis
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Petersen, Douglas B.; Chanthongthip, Helen; Ukrainetz, Teresa A.; Spencer, Trina D.; Steeve, Roger W. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: This study investigated the classification accuracy of a concentrated English narrative dynamic assessment (DA) for identifying language impairment (LI). Method: Forty-two Spanish-English bilingual kindergarten to third-grade children (10 LI and 32 with no LI) were administered two 25-min DA test-teach-test sessions. Pre- and posttest…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Pretests Posttests, Language Impairments
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Arredondo, Maria M.; Hu, Xiao-Su; Satterfield, Teresa; Kovelman, Ioulia – Developmental Science, 2017
Bilingualism is a typical linguistic experience, yet relatively little is known about its impact on children's cognitive and brain development. Theories of bilingualism suggest that early dual-language acquisition can improve children's cognitive abilities, specifically those relying on frontal lobe functioning. While behavioral findings present…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Ability, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Ardila, Alfredo; Garcia, Krystal; Garcia, Melissa; Mejia, Joselyn; Vado, Grace – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Written bilingualism represents a particular type of bilingualism that is not frequently approached. The aim of this study was to investigate the writing and reading abilities of second-generation immigrants, Spanish-English bilinguals in South Florida. 58 participants (36 females, 22 males; 18-39 years of age) were selected. Both parents were…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, English, Writing Ability
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Davis, Alexandra N.; Qi, Cathy H. – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This longitudinal study examined the moderating roles of language use and gender in the relations between maternal depressive symptoms and child internalizing behaviour problems in 242 preschool children (48% girls) enrolled in Head Start centres. Teachers and parents completed the "Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 1 1/2-5." Mothers…
Descriptors: Correlation, Depression (Psychology), Parent Child Relationship, Spanish Speaking
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Garza, Raul; Eufracio, Gricelda; Jupp, James C. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
Our essay sketches resistant, transnational, and translanguaging traditions of the Rio Grande Valley (RGV), Aztlán and conjugates them with our critical curricular-pedagogical praxis. After an introductory section, we frame our essay between transnational intellectual traditions and critical place-based pedagogies. Following our framings, we…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Code Switching (Language), Place Based Education
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De Anda, Stephanie; Blossom, Megan; Abel, Alyson D. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: This single-case study examines a complexity approach to target selection in grammatical intervention in three children with varying levels of mastery of tense and agreement. Specifically, we examine whether targeting a complex tense and agreement grammatical structure (auxiliary BE in questions) leads to generalization to other less…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Morphemes, Grammar, Intervention
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