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Rico, Mercedes; Fielden, Laura Victoria; Sánchez, Héctor – JALT CALL Journal, 2019
While the globalized nature of contemporary society can be empowering for many, it may mean the maintenance of social iniquities for others, such as migrant populations. Spain, like many other European countries, has faced a high migration influx in the last decades. As a result, the government has invested in measures orientated toward social…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Social Differences, Computer Software, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Valencia, Heriberto González – English Language Teaching, 2019
This article shows how the integration of native language in EFL classes affect positively the teaching and learning processes of English as a foreign language. The methodology shows a quantitative approach performing different processes and techniques adapted to the requirements of the investigation, data is the result of tests done to two groups…
Descriptors: Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hernandez-Matias, Liz; Llerandi-Román, Pablo A.; Pérez-Donato, Lizmar; Calzada-Jorge, Natalia; Mendoza, Stephanie; Laureano-Torre, Faviola; Washington, A. Valance; Borrero, Michelle – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2019
Multiple worldwide efforts, including research experiences and internships for students, have been developed to increase diversity in STEM. In order to understand the outcomes of these research experiences, instruments have become available, but surprisingly, Spanish instruments for these purposes are scarce. The evaluation of diverse scientific…
Descriptors: Spanish, Translation, Self Concept, Factor Analysis
Ekiaka-Oblazamengo, Julien – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Over the last few decades, the United States of America (USA) has experienced an increase in the number of K-12 students due to increasing waves of immigrants and the high birth rate of immigrant families. Most of today's K-12 classes reflect a diversity of non-English speaking (NES) students whose English proficiency challenges their academic…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Teacher Education Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Mirra, Nicole; Liberation League, Debate – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to analyze how a group of middle-school debaters integrated their identities and epistemologies into the traditional literacy practice of debate to advocate for more expansive and inclusive forms of academic and civic discussion. The adult and youth co-researchers of the Debate Liberation League (DLL) detail their creation…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Debate, English Instruction, Language Arts
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Seibert Hanson, Aroline E.; Brown, Christina M. – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2020
We tested the effectiveness of the spaced-repetition flashcard application, Anki, on improving 62 university-level learners' second language (L2) learning in a semester-long beginning Spanish course. Using effective study strategies is critical for L2 learning, but college students learning an L2 often study with strategies that are only useful…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Spanish, College Students
Francesca Venezia – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation explores community-based learning (CBL) in university Spanish education. Although Spanish education continues to construct Spanish as a foreign language (Leeman, 2014), recent trends such as changing demographics in the US have led to calls for Spanish education to focus more on US Latinx communities (e.g., Torres, Pascual y…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Hispanic Americans
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Tocaimaza-Hatch, C. Cecilia; Bloom, Melanie – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
Language textbooks present cultural content in a typically homogeneous fashion, thereby ignoring inherent diversity both within and between cultures and reinforcing monodimensional views. Consequently, instructors must find ways to facilitate students' critical engagement with and reflection on cultural representations in order to provide them…
Descriptors: United States History, Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Prada, Josh – Classroom Discourse, 2019
The present study explores how translanguaging serves as vehicle to (help) re-configure linguistic attitudinal and ideological structures in a university Spanish course for heritage speakers. Specifically, it focuses on the links between exposure to (and engagement in) classroom translanguaging and the participants' challenging of traditional…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Attitudes, Code Switching (Language), Language Usage
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Turpin, Kristen M. – L2 Journal, 2019
This study proposes a method for implementing trained peer response within the multiliteracies framework and then qualitatively examines its effectiveness. Three factors are considered: (1) the extent to which peer response training engaged learners in all four knowledge processes; (2) the quality of peer-to-peer feedback; and (3) students'…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Instructional Effectiveness, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes
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Morales, P. Zitlali; Saravia, Lydia A.; Pérez-Iribe, María Fernanda – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2019
This article focuses on the reported experiences of three focal students who participated in a Spanish/English dual language program in their southern California school district throughout their elementary and middle school years. All three students identify as Mexican-origin and speak Spanish, English, and the Indigenous language of Zapoteco and…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Hispanic American Students, Student Attitudes, Native Language
Longbottom, William George – ProQuest LLC, 2019
One of the most researched challenges in learning Spanish is the acquisition and use of the past aspect, namely, the preterit and imperfect. L2 learners encounter this challenge due to differences in how native English and Spanish speakers view past events. Numerous studies on the Spanish past aspect have analyzed L2 learners' past aspectual…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Semantics
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Sparks, Richard L.; Luebbers, Julie; Castaneda, Martha; Patton, Jon – Modern Language Journal, 2018
A unique anxiety for foreign language (L2) learning has been hypothesized to explain students' problems with language learning. However, L2 anxiety instruments have been challenged on the grounds that they reflect students' language learning ability and/or perceptions of their language learning skills. In this study, 266 U.S. high school students…
Descriptors: High School Students, Spanish, Anxiety, Second Language Learning
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Cerda, Janet; Bailey, Alison L.; Heritage, Margaret – Language and Education, 2020
Using a qualitative case study design and applying a sociocultural theoretical perspective, support for self- and co-regulated learning in an elementary Spanish and English dual-language classroom was documented. The multi-age classroom comprised 33 students acquiring English and Spanish, at school (52% female students; 20 fourth grade and 13…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Bilingual Education, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods
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Mari, Vanessa; Carroll, Kevin S. – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2020
This paper documents English teachers' and advanced English students' perspectives on the use of Spanish in the English classroom in Puerto Rico. Using qualitative data collection methods such as interviews and focus group data, the researchers document the ways that many English teachers on the island justify their use of Spanish in the English…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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