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Francis John Troyan; Pete Swanson; Victoria Russell – Hispania, 2023
Both within the field of world language (WL) teacher education and across teacher education in other disciplines, critiques of the edTPA have increased over the past several years. In WL language education, scholars have identified issues related to raters' use of edTPA rubrics and a serious lack of transparency about rater expertise. To better…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Performance Based Assessment, Language Teachers, Teacher Certification
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Goldberg, Nancy Sloan – Hispania, 2014
Ventura García Calderón (1886-1959) was a Peruvian man of letters and a diplomat who was at the center of the hispanophone community in Paris in the first half of the twentieth century. Known as a proponent of Spanish American literature, García Calderón achieved a global celebrity for his dramatic, colorful, and ironic short stories. These…
Descriptors: Authors, French, Spanish, Spanish Literature
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Travers, Will – Hispania, 2017
On college campuses throughout the United States, classes for decades have been offered to help Spanish speakers learn Portuguese, augmented recently by similar courses in Italian, French, and Catalan. Though there exist numerous commonalities between these innovative course offerings, the pivotal role of Spanish stands out. This essay therefore…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism
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Maddox, John – Hispania, 2017
In times of crisis when literature and world languages are threatened by economic hardship, they should draw closer to African diaspora studies. The African diaspora is so vast, longstanding, and diverse that it must be studied using a comparative, multilingual, interdisciplinary, and international approach that includes study in French,…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Multilingualism, Interdisciplinary Approach, Spanish
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Sebastian, Robert N. – Hispania, 1989
Explores problems encountered during attempts to translate French expressions occurring in English (such as concierge) into Spanish, particularly when the English interpretation of the expression is different from the standard French usage. Spanish translations are provided for about 200 French terms and expressions commonly used in English. (61…
Descriptors: English, French, Idioms, Linguistic Borrowing
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Biehn, Aubrey – Hispania, 1975
A program is described in which advanced high school language students acted as tutors in Spanish and French in a FLES program. (RM)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, FLES, French, Language Instruction
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Berne, Jane E. – Hispania, 1990
Discusses the results of a study designed to observe, compare, and assess the teaching practices used in two language programs (French and Spanish). The study was conducted to find out just how different proficiency-oriented and acquisition-oriented classes are. (five references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, French, Language Proficiency, Second Language Instruction
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Matthews, Thomas J.; Jacquet, Roberta Church – Hispania, 1992
Studies the basic principles of strategic interaction to a written task, retaining the properties of group work, inventive outcome, and hidden agenda. In an attempt to stimulate students to engage in more realistic communication in a written activity, students in a French class wrote letters to students in a Spanish class. (13 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Creativity, French, Group Experience
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Lopez-Ortega, Nuria R. – Hispania, 2000
Attempts to describe the interpersonal variation in interlanguage tense and aspect systems of four French/Moroccan Arabic learners of second language (L2) Spanish in a natural setting. In addition to noting differences in the way these four learners use L2 verbal morphology to construct their narratives, results also support previous research on…
Descriptors: Arabic, French, Interlanguage, Morphology (Languages)
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Mirsky, Jerome G. – Hispania, 1969
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), FLES, French, Instructional Materials
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Douglass, R. Thomas – Hispania, 1988
An historical account of the use of the acute accent mark in written Spanish discusses the effects of Greek, Latin, Italian, and French precursors on the early use of the accent and on its current modern use. (CB)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Diacritical Marking, Distinctive Features (Language), French
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Young, Dolly J. – Hispania, 1987
Comparison of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language's (ACTFL) Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) and a communicative competence-oriented dictation test, involving 60 university level French, German, or Spanish majors, revealed significant correlations between the two tests. (CB)
Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, French
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Milleret, Margo – Hispania, 1990
A review of higher education Portuguese language programs explores the characteristics of these programs between 1945 and 1979 and enrollment in the 1980s. A discussion focuses on how recent developments in French and Spanish applied linguistics and new teaching methodologies and materials will affect the future development of such programs. (CB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, College Second Language Programs, French, Higher Education
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Brizuela, Maquela; Andersen, Elaine; Stallings, Lynne – Hispania, 1999
Explores the ability of children to use discourse markers (DMs) as indicators of register, examining the distribution of various DMs in the role-play speech of Spanish-dominant bilingual elementary students as they played with puppets representing several characters with different social relationships. Children used DMs to specifically mark…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Gahala, Estella M. – Hispania, 1996
Argues that coordinated language-learning sequences provide continuity for learners and clearer understandings about the interrelationships of curriculum, instruction, outcomes, and evaluation for teachers. The article discusses articulation in French, German, and Spanish programs; vertical models of articulation; horizontal articulation; program…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Course Objectives, Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary Education
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