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Guzmán, Remedios; de León, Sara C.; González, Desirée; Jiménez, Juan E. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
This study aimed to explore instructional practices used to teach words with irregular spelling patterns by Spanish-speaking teachers in 2nd and 3rd grade of elementary school. A sample of 320 teachers from Guatemala, Ecuador, and Spain answered an online survey, which included the Spelling Instructional Practices Scale. Item Response Theory and…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 3, Spelling, Spanish
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Goldoni, Federica – L2 Journal, 2022
The most recent "Open Doors" report by the Institute of International Education (IIE, 2020) indicates that the number of non-white U.S. study abroad students has been steadily growing over the past 10 years, and now it accounts for 31% of all students pursuing part of their education abroad. This study focuses on four Spanish heritage…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Spanish Speaking, Native Language
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Maria-José González-Valenzuela; Dolores López-Montiel; Fatma Chebaani; Marta Cobos-Cali; Elisa Piedra-Martínez; Isaías Martín-Ruiz – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
This study analyses the impact of certain cognitive processes on the writing of words in languages with different orthographic consistency (Spanish and Arabic) in the first and second years of Primary Education. One hundred twenty-eight schoolchildren from Ecuador and 109 from Algiers participated in this study. All the participants were aged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Spanish, Arabic
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Velazco, Derling José Mendoza; Hinostroza, Elizeth Mayrene Flores; Briones, Josselyn Leonela Muñoz; Cedeño, María Leonila García – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2023
In the academic world, the skills of scientific writing and publishing allow for the sharing and dissemination of academic research. The research analysed the scientific publications of university teachers from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Technical University of Manabí (FCHS-UTM), Ecuador, in order to determine their…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Publishing, Foreign Countries, Writing Skills
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Manuel Bohn; Wilson Filipe da Silva Vieira; Marta Giner Torréns; Joscha Kärtner; Shoji Itakura; Lília Cavalcante; Daniel Haun; Moritz Köster; Patricia Kanngiesser – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Children all over the world learn language, yet the contexts in which they do so vary substantially. This variation needs to be systematically quantified to build robust and generalizable theories of language acquisition. We compared communicative interactions between parents and their 2-year-old children (N = 99 families) during mealtime across…
Descriptors: Food, Parent Child Relationship, Cross Cultural Studies, Nonverbal Communication
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González-Valenzuela, Maria-José; López-Montiel, Dolores; Chebaani, Fatma; Cobos-Cali, Marta; Piedra-Martínez, Elisa; Martin-Ruiz, Isaías – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
This study analyzes the impact of certain cognitive processes on word and pseudoword reading in languages with different orthographic consistency (Spanish and Arabic) in the first year of Primary Education. The study was conducted with a group of 113 pupils from Algeria and another group of 128 pupils from Ecuador, from a middle-class background…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Cognitive Processes, Reading Processes, Word Recognition
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Burgin, Ximena D. – Intercultural Education, 2023
The Ecuadorian government has reported remarkable learning gains regarding the academic progress of students in the educational system. However, the academic gains for indigenous students have not been clearly demonstrated. This quantitative study aimed at understanding the progress of educational reforms in Ecuador for indigenous students. These…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Academic Achievement, American Indian Students, American Indian Languages
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Lavender, Jordan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
This study analyses the use of English in the linguistic landscape (LL) of Azogues, Ecuador. A representative sample of fixed signs in the economic centre of the city was photographed by the author in the summer of 2017, consisting of 171 photographed signs. This study analyses what linguistic features are used and how other semiotic resources…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Usage, Signs
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Camus, Pablo; Advani, Mehak – Hispania, 2021
Study abroad (SA) provides a space and place for second language (L2) learners to be challenged in terms of their target language skills and intercultural awareness. In order to appropriately equip learners, a task-based approach seems ideal to identify learners' specific needs (Long 2015). The present study reports a multiphase needs analysis…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Student Needs, Spanish
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Orosa-Roldán, Miguel-Ángel; López-López, Paulo-Carlos – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2018
This paper is based on a neo-functionalist constructivist theory, allowing us to understand that dialogue processes and social participation build culture with a dynamic and civic vision, as opposed to organic and more conservative visions. The main objective is to create a panel analysis of plays, from the point of view of drama (sense) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Models, Drama
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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Kotkowski, Eithan; Realini, Janet; Cisneros, Valeria; Rosenfeld, Jason; Berggren, Ruth; Gafas Gonzalez, Carlos; Kneese, Garrett – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2022
Educational efforts to reduce global rates of adolescent pregnancy vary widely with a significant deficiency in the domain of sex education facilitator training. In this study, we sought to establish a pilot approach to comprehensive sex education facilitator training in Riobamba, Ecuador. The approach was aligned with UNESCO recommendations for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Facilitators (Individuals), Training
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Lapresta-Rey, Cecilio; Huguet-Canalís, Ángel; Janés-Carulla, Judit – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
There is a theoretical and empirical tradition demonstrating the influence of the place of birth and self-identification in the shaping of language attitudes. But very few works analyse their joint effects. The main aim of this study is to analyse both the disaggregated and joint impact of these variables on the shaping of attitudes towards…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Spanish
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Limerick, Nicholas – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
Indigenous education increasingly seeks to reclaim the institutions of state assimilation as spaces for the dissemination and support of localized forms of knowledge and language use and the valorization of alternative citizenship identities. In this study, I compare two schools in Ecuador to show how divergent ways of teaching Kichwa promote or…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Citizenship Education, Language Planning, American Indian Languages
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Wroblewski, Michael – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This article takes a linguistic anthropological approach to analyzing multilingualism in the linguistic landscape of the Amazonian city of Tena, Ecuador, a key locus of indigenous Kichwa language revitalization, identity formation, and politics. Following recent scholarly reconsiderations of multilingual linguistic landscapes as sites of…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Spanish, Ethnography, Signs
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