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Clachar, Arlene – Hispania, 1999
The locus of control, whether internal or external, is an influential concept in second-language learning. One observes it, for example, in Puerto Rican students returning to Puerto Rico to take university-level courses. Explanations address a teaching method relying on use of problems with examples in such a way as to empower students. This also…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education, Hispanic Americans
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Clachar, Arlene – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1992
Reports on a study that sought to determine whether adult English-as-a-Second-Language students with internal orientations on two dimensions of locus of control also had positive expectancies about their life situations in the United States and a higher degree of proficiency in their English interlanguage than their counterparts with external…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Students
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Clachar, Arlene – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1997
Eight students taking English as a Second Language in a Puerto Rican university kept dialog journals in which they discussed English as a symbol of U.S. colonial domination of Puerto Rico and the erosion of Puerto Rican cultural identity, the relative importance of English and Spanish, and contradictions related to U.S. citizenship and the need…
Descriptors: College Students, Colonialism, Dialog Journals, Elementary Secondary Education