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Amy Clark – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2024
Emergent bi/multilingual children have historically been afforded few opportunities to engage dialogically with peers and teachers in posing authentic questions and co-constructing interpretations of texts as their reading instruction has traditionally been skills driven. Additionally, more recent scholarship has identified increased opportunities…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Spanish Literature, Spanish, Language Maintenance
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Varela-Lago, Ana – Hispania, 2020
This article examines the life and work of Mary J. Serrano (1840-1923), a successful translator and popularizer of Spanish literature in late nineteenth-century United States. It provides a short biography of Serrano and focuses on her work for the Spanish Legation in in Washington D.C. during the Cuban War of Independence (1895-98), a period of…
Descriptors: War, Journalism, Translation, Biographies
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Phillips, Nick – Hispania, 2021
This essay examines the state of Digital Humanities work in the subfield of literature from the Spanish speaking world. It provides a case study of a multiyear digital mapping project conducted with undergraduate students at a highly selective liberal arts college. This project serves as a means of examining the digital state of the field and…
Descriptors: Spanish, Fiction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sanders, Robert – Hispania, 2021
Requirements for the undergraduate major in Hispanic literature and offerings of Spanish peninsular and Latin American literature courses surveying the canon, masterpieces, major works, major authors, major trends, or representative works at fifty-six selected US colleges and universities were examined for academic years 1990-91, 2002-03, 2013-14,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Latin American Literature, Undergraduate Students, Spanish
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Jerónimo, Heather; Martin, Allysha – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
Research on social media in the foreign language classroom has grown significantly in the last 10 years. However, there continues to be a gap in how social media, Twitter in particular, can be used as a tool to build community within a Spanish as a second-language literature classroom. The current action research project seeks to address this gap.…
Descriptors: Social Media, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Bender, Rebecca M. – Hispania, 2021
This article demonstrates the pedagogical potential of two free digital tools: the mobile app Snapchat and Northwestern University Knight Lab's StoryMap. By combining Snapchat and StoryMap in the second language (L2) literature classroom, students adapt L2 language skills to twenty-first-century modes of communication, collaborate with peers, and…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Peer Relationship
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Darhower, Mark; Smith-Sherwood, Dawn – Hispania, 2021
Research on the language-literature divide in undergraduate second language programs documents the challenge of engaging literature learners in classroom discourse which is conducive to their developing interpersonal speaking skills as measured on the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Scale. In this study, Integrated Performance Assessments (IPAs) were…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Spanish
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Fernández, Ana María – Hispania, 2020
In the context of Latin American Studies (LAS) and from a sociohistorical perspective, the author proposes a non-credit workshop in Spanish as a Foreign Language (SFL) at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Its general aim is to raise students' awareness of the interrelationships between coloniality and the geopolitics of knowledge through fiction.…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Lallana, Amparo, Ed.; Martín, Lourdes Hernández, Ed.; Gutiérrez, Mara Fuertes, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This anniversary volume of the Association for the Teaching of Spanish in Higher Education in the United Kingdom is a compilation of contributions made by members and delegates at the 2019 ELEUK annual conference held at the University of Edinburgh. Throughout the book, authors share their teaching, assessment, and research practice in the area of…
Descriptors: Spanish, Higher Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Brown, Alan V.; Thompson, Gregory L. – Hispania, 2020
This article presents a descriptive analysis of the evolution of the world language Advanced Placement (AP) exam candidates' ethno-racial background, their heritage learner status, and language dominance, with particular emphasis on the two Spanish exams. The data come from aggregated national totals prepared by the College Board that include…
Descriptors: Spanish, Advanced Placement, Language Tests, Spanish Literature
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Lunn, Patricia; Frantzen, Diana – Hispania, 2017
Linguists are an increasing presence not only in graduate programs but at undergraduate institutions as well, and this could lead to positive interdisciplinary changes in curricula. Literary/cultural texts contain masterful examples of how linguistic features are used to communicate meaning, and learners need to notice these features in order to…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish Literature
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Cueto Asín, Elena – Hispania, 2016
This article examines poetry written during the Spanish Civil War that reflects on the modern character of the conflict: the novel tactic of aerial bombing civilian populations as it was disseminated through the mass media. A comparative reading of this body of poetry written by Spanish, British, and American authors allows for the examination of…
Descriptors: Spanish, Spanish Literature, War, Victims
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Bartlett, Linda; Manyé, Lourdes – Hispania, 2015
The long-running Spanish television program "Cuéntame cómo pasó" represents not only a wildly successful series for Radio Televisión Española, but also an excellent example of the project of historical memory. Premiering in 2001 (but set, in the first season, in 1968), the story of the multigenerational Alcántara family forms a…
Descriptors: Spanish, Social Change, Democracy, Foreign Countries
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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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Thoms, Joshua J.; Poole, Frederick J. – L2 Journal, 2018
This exploratory study analyzes the digital literacy practices that resulted from learner-learner interactions within a virtual environment when collaboratively reading eighteen Spanish poems via a digital annotation tool over a four-week period in a college-level Hispanic literature course. Using an ecological theoretical perspective and…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Spanish Literature, Computer Simulation, Second Language Learning
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