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Registers, Schools and Scales: Comments on Language and Identity in Twenty-First Century Catalonia
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Gal, Susan – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
Monolingual speakers of a national language continue to be the ideal figures on which national identities and senses of community are built. Yet this longstanding equation between nation and language is being contested by other ideologies. Alternatives are emerging from such disparate social locations as the European Union, now advocating for…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Ideology
Aztec Traces in Modern Spanish.
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Lozano, Anthony Girard – Hispania, 1981
Traces history of Aztec language and culture to show how traces remain in modern Spanish and how they have contributed to other languages. (BK)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Linguistic Borrowing, Romance Languages, Spanish
De nuevo, que es la Gramatica? (Once Again, What is Grammar?)
Perez Botero, Luis – Yelmo, 1979
Discusses an analysis of grammar that systematizes knowledge about language according to new parameters but continues to view traditional grammar as the backbone of language structure. (NCR)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Grammar, Morphology (Languages)
The Idiom in Spanish Language Teaching.
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Sugano, Marian Zwerling – Modern Language Journal, 1981
Explores special problems posed by idiomatic expressions for learners and teachers of second languages stressing need to integrate idioms into teaching. Presents program providing a classification of idiomatic expressions based on contrastive analysis of Spanish and English. (BK)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English, Idioms, Indo European Languages
Sobre el valor mundial del conocimiento del espanol (About the Value of Knowing Spanish in Today's World).
Yelmo, 1978
Discusses the historical role of the Romance languages and the practical value of Spanish in today's world. (NCR)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Attitudes, Language Role, Latin American Culture
Spain's Linguistic Normalization Laws: The Catalan Controversy.
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Rees, Earl L. – Hispania, 1996
The 1983 Catalonian Linguistic Normalization Law made Spanish and Catalan co-official languages in that region. The law's constitutionality was challenged and after more than a decade of litigation was upheld by Spain's Supreme Court, producing a polemic in Catalonia and, tangentially, an impact in the Basque region and Galicia. (21 references)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Civil Law, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
Language Learning and Language Utilization.
Lambert, Richard D. – 1980
The benefits of learning a foreign language and arguments in support of language requirements in the college curriculum are discussed. The arguments concerning the acquisition of indirect benefits not inherent in the language skill itself through the learning of a foreign language prove inconvincing and only serve to divert one's attention from…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cognitive Ability, College Curriculum, Core Curriculum
Proceedings of the National Conference on Individualized Instruction in Foreign Languages (2nd, Ohio State University, October 24-25, 1980).
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Ervin, Gerard L., Ed. – 1981
Papers in this volume on individualized instruction in foreign languages include: (1) "Individualized Instruction and 'Back to Basics': Are They Compatible?" by Howard B. Altman; (2) "Individualized Instruction in French at Northwestern University" by Margaret Sinclair Breslin; (3) "An Individualized French Program for…
Descriptors: African Languages, Arabic, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conversational Language Courses