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Raees Calafato – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2025
Self-development is a crucial aspect of language teaching as it fosters various dimensions of language teacher cognition, affect, and identity, ultimately contributing to better learning outcomes. Most studies on language teacher self-development have examined language teachers' cognitive, affective, and identity-related reactions to particular…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lugo-Marín, Jorge; Díez-Villoria, Emiliano; Magán-Maganto, María; Pérez-Méndez, Lina; Alviani, Montserrat; de la Fuente-Portero, Juan Antonio; Canal-Bedia, Ricardo – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
The objective of this study was to adapt and validate the abbreviated version of the "Autism-Spectrum Quotient" (AQ-Short) in a sample of Spanish native adults. A total of 46 individuals with ASD, 41 ASD-relatives, 17 patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and 190 non-clinical adults were administered the Spanish version of the…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Adults, Questionnaires
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Zabala Delgado, Julia; Rouveyrol, Laurent – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2022
Verbal interaction has been the subject of a growing interest among language professionals in Europe since the CEFR was published in 2001; in linguistics, verbal interaction has long been studied. In the Bakhtinian approach, it is even considered "the fundamental reality of language". All types of interaction share the fact that they are…
Descriptors: Spanish, French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Gomashie, Grace A. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
The younger generations are considered one of the principal agents in the maintenance or shift of any language. In the cycle of the language maintenance, children learn their mother tongue, and pass it on to the future generations. The cycle is broken when they no longer speak the mother tongue. The language choices they make are particularly…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Usage, Spanish, Language Attitudes
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García-Amaya, Lorenzo – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
Many second language (L2) learners participate in study abroad (SA) experiences believing their choice will be synonymous with increased interaction in the L2, from which enhanced linguistic gains will ensue. Nonetheless, one open question is whether SA participants actually engage in sustained L2 interaction while they are abroad. This paper…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Correlation, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning
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McEown, Kristopher; Sugita-McEown, Maya – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
The role of positive and negative psychological factors in predicting effort and foreign language anxiety for languages other than English (LOTE) is not well understood. Therefore, two hundred twenty-one students attending a private university in Tokyo, Japan participated in a research study. Participants were studying one of four LOTEs,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Psychological Patterns, Anxiety, Private Colleges
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Archila, Pablo Antonio; Molina, Jorge; Danies, Giovanna; Truscott de Mejía, Anne-Marie; Restrepo, Silvia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
As we begin the third decade of the twenty-first century, in countries where English is the second or foreign language, the goal of internationalization is causing a rise in university first language-English bilingual science courses. Even though bilingual written scientific argumentation (BWSA)--a twenty-first-century skill--is an essential…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Undergraduate Students, Bilingualism, Scientific Literacy
Brenda Sarmiento Quezada – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation is a multi-sited ethnographic case study of three displaced Syrian students living in Mexico who were undergoing their university studies. Drawing upon "thirdspace" and language ideology theories this study examined how three Syrian displaced students in Mexico created spaces where they used language to construct and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Refugees, Language Usage
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Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer; Mara Thölkes – Educational Linguistics, 2022
In this chapter, we analyse the practices and attitudes of German teachers regarding assessment of refugee students learning Spanish or English as foreign languages. The data were collected through interviews with ten Spanish or English teachers dealing with refugee students in their classrooms in secondary schools in Hamburg in 2017 (Thölkes,…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Student Evaluation, Refugees
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Fischer, Brett; Viens, Danielle – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2023
As the popularity of short-term teacher-facilitated language study abroad (SA) programs grows, it is becoming increasingly important to understand how classroom language-teaching methods can best be adapted to meet learners' overseas needs. However, adapting one's methods places high cognitive demands on teachers who may already be overburdened…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, College Second Language Programs, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Hinostroza-Castillo, Ursula; Ianos, Maria-Adelina; Petreñas, Cristina; Lapresta-Rey, Cecilio – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2023
As a response to the migratory movements initiated at the end of the past century in Catalonia (Spain), its educational system aims to promote interculturality and multilingualism as a way to achieve social cohesion. For this purpose, it is important to improve our understanding of the linguistic acculturation preferences endorsed by local…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Acculturation, Social Integration, Cultural Pluralism
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Castroviejo, Elena; Hernández-Conde, José V.; Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Dimitra; Ponciano, Marta; Vicente, Agustín – Language Learning and Development, 2023
This paper reports an experiment that investigates interpretive distinctions between two different expressions of generalization in Spanish. In particular, our aim was to find out when the distinction between generic statements (GS) such as "Tigers have stripes" and universally quantified statements (UQS) such as "All tigers have…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Age Groups, Accuracy, Semantics
Walsh-Dilley, Marygold; Vaquera-Vasquez, Santiago – Geography Teacher, 2021
Offered through the Honors College at the University of New Mexico, Conexiones-Ecuador is an explicitly interdisciplinary study abroad program around the theme of "Food, Sovereignty, and Development." In an immersive language and cultural studies experience, students live with host families, take Spanish language classes at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, College Students, Cultural Awareness
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Ríos Ariza, José Manuel; Matas-Terrón, Antonio; Rumiche Chávarry, Rocío del Pilar; Chunga Chinguel, Gerardo Raúl – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2021
Phubbing is defined as ignoring people with whom you have a face-to-face relationship to attend to smartphones. The phenomenon of phubbing particularly affects the teenage and young segments of the population. The main problem lies in the impact it has on individuals' social relationship. A lack of validated instruments to diagnose this phenomenon…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Antisocial Behavior
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Fernández-Carballo, María Victoria – HOW, 2021
Noticing the generally lower-than-desirable English language proficiency level with which Spanish students start university, I considered trying a different approach in which the use of a familiar application would be introduced in the classroom. The main objective of this work is to explore Primary Education degree programme students' attitudes…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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