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Férez Mora, Pedro Antonio; Coyle, Yvette; Dorado Otero, Ángela – Language Awareness, 2022
This study reports on the journal entries written by undergraduate students (N = 42) after participating in Spanish as a foreign language classes with a critical pedagogy orientation which unfolded from the exploration of homophobia in a poem by Luis Cernuda. Students were requested to express their views on how the lessons had impacted their FL…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Journals, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Nuñez, Idalia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
For many minoritized communities, sustaining or at least holding on to their home language and cultural identity has been a constant uphill battle. Nevertheless, Latina/o/x who speak Spanish, for example, have demonstrated to be linguistically and culturally resilient against hegemonic societal, institutional, political, and monolithic national…
Descriptors: Native Language, Cultural Awareness, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic American Culture
Hale, Sandra; Goodman-Delahunty, Jane; Martschuk, Natalie – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2019
In most countries, it is not compulsory to be trained to work as an interpreter in community settings. A comparison across jurisdictions reveals that different requirements exist, from a simple self-evaluation of language competence, to passing a certification or accreditation test. Even in countries where certification or accreditation systems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Translation, Bilingualism, Competence
López-Fernández, Verónica; Merino-Soto, César; Maldonado Fruto, María Luisa; Orozco Garavito, César Augusto – Creativity Research Journal, 2019
This study analyzed the internal structure of the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale (RIBS) in a sample of 116 Spanish-speaking individuals. The characteristics of the items and the structural relationship with the construct were analyzed. The results supported a 2-factor model and showed good discrimination. The reliability of the scores was…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Measures (Individuals), Creativity, Creative Thinking
Vizcaíno-Verdú, Arantxa; Contreras-Pulido, Paloma; Guzmán-Franco, María-Dolores – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2019
The digital era has perpetuated new pedagogies of collective participation in networks that requires reflection in the conventional education area, because of YouTube, as audiovisual platform of outstanding international recognition, concentrates an extensive repertoire of informal learning practices among young people. In this case, the research…
Descriptors: Books, Electronic Publishing, Video Technology, Recreational Reading
Hornberger, Nancy H.; Kvietok Dueñas, Frances – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2019
Drawing on an ethnographic monitoring engagement with Kichwa intercultural bilingual educators in the Peruvian Amazon, we argue for ethnographic monitoring as a method and the continua of biliteracy as a heuristic for mapping biliteracy teaching in Indigenous contexts of bilingualism. Through our mapping, we uncover tensions in the teaching of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, American Indians, American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries
Álvarez-Cañizo, Marta; Suárez-Coalla, Paz; Cuetos, Fernando – Journal of Child Language, 2018
Several studies have found that, after repeated exposure to new words, children form orthographic representations that allow them to read those words faster and more fluently. However, these studies did not take into account variables related to the words. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of sublexical variables on the…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Spanish, Graphemes, Syllables
Martínez, Camila; Maurits, Natasha; Maassen, Ben – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2023
GraphoGame is a computer-based game that trains grapheme-to-phoneme associations and has been shown to benefit reading acquisition in different languages and countries. In transparent languages, such as Spanish, learning grapheme-to-phoneme associations is of great importance when learning to read, and GraphoGame can help children at risk of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Identification, Reading Difficulties, Spanish Speaking
Rosemberg, Celia Renata; Alam, Florenciaa; Ramirez, María Laura; Ibañez, María Ileana – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
This study examines the quantity and quality of child-directed speech across household activities in a socioeconomically diverse sample of Argentinian Spanish-speaking children, an understudied population. Thirty children (mean: 14.3 months) and their families were audio-recorded for four hours. The middle two hours were transcribed and analysed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Play, Food
Gomashie, Grace A. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This paper reports on the family language policy (FLP) of three families in a Nahuatl community in Mexico. It investigates the role of: (1) parental experiences, beliefs, attitudes and expectations; (2) child practices; and (3) broader societal attitudes in shaping these policies. Drawing on survey and interview data, the study points to a tension…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Bilingualism, Language Usage, Social Attitudes
Degollado, Enrique David – Journal of Literacy Research, 2023
Drawing on life stories and classroom observations, this qualitative study examined how six bilingual maestras enacted and embodied critical biliteracies through bilanguaging love. These maestras were born, raised, and now teach bilingual education on the Texas-Mexico border. Their stories revealed contradictory and complex beliefs about literacy…
Descriptors: Literacy, Bilingualism, Bilingual Education, Epistemology
Quezada, Natalia Ferrada – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2021
Readers' theatre is a teaching strategy that consists of the interpretative reading of theatrical texts in which readers use their voices to give life to the characters. This strategy promotes the development of various skills related to fluency, among which there is prosody. This research aimed to check the efficacy of a reader's theatre program…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Theater Arts, Reading Instruction
Bayona, Sandra; Percara, Antonella – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2021
Effective communication is a fundamental aspect of human relationships and a key interpersonal skill to be considered and developed at an EFL Teacher Education Program. Yet, a variety of challenges are posed for those in the process of becoming (proficient) users of English in an environment where Spanish is the main means of communication. Our…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Jauregi-Ondarra, Kristi; Gruber, Alice; Canto, Silvia – Research-publishing.net, 2021
Social Virtual Reality (VR) applications enable real-time interpersonal conversation and allow users to perform activities together. They have the potential of changing the ways learners practise speaking a foreign language. Following a previous study (Jauregi Ondarra, Gruber, & Canto, 2020), we designed the present study to explore how…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Simulation
Tavarez DaCosta, Pedro J.; Reyes Arias, Francheska – Online Submission, 2021
This work aims to analyze the Results of the PISA Tests for the year 2018 in the Dominican Republic as subministered every three year by the OECD presided over by Dr. Andreas Schleicher, and that it is long awaited both for the Ministry of Education-MINERD-, and as well as for the non-governmental society and the opposition parties, among others.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Results, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students