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Pak, Chin-Sook – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2018
A growing number of colleges and universities in the United States offer Spanish classes intended to meet specific needs of heritage speakers. In predominantly White institutions, beyond the language focus, these classes can also provide Latino students with a unique place on campus to strengthen their sense of belonging in ways that might not be…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Sense of Community, Culturally Relevant Education, Heritage Education
Caldas, Blanca – TESOL Journal, 2018
Using multicultural children's books "La Asombrosa Graciela" and "William's Doll" as springboards for discussion surrounding gender roles, this study examines the role of drama-based pedagogy in the developing understanding of gender roles in a second-grade Spanish dual-language classroom. This practitioner inquiry shows…
Descriptors: Drama, Teaching Methods, Bilingual Education, English (Second Language)
Barkel, Ashley Amanda – ProQuest LLC, 2018
With Common Core State Standards (CCSS), all students are held to the same high expectations, including students learning English and other learners who may have academic difficulties. Many students learning English have trouble writing and need effective writing strategies to meet the demands the standards present. Ten fourth and fifth grade…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Learning Strategies, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Bárkányi, Zsuzsanna – Research-publishing.net, 2018
The present chapter examines learners' beliefs and attitudes with regard to speaking in a learning environment that is neither formal nor non-formal. The main research question is whether learners perceive Language Massive Open Online Courses (LMOOCs) as a completely informal context that is free of anxiety or rather as a virtual classroom where…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Technology
Moratinos-Johnston, Sofía; Ballester Brage, LLuís; Juan-Garau, Maria; Salazar-Noguera, Joana – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Attitudes and motivation seem decisive in successful language learning (Dörnyei, Csizér, and Németh 2006. "Motivation, Language Attitudes and Globalisation: A Hungarian Perspective." Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.). Research in Spanish multilingual contexts analysing the influence of the L1 on attitudes and motivation to learn foreign…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Herrmann-Abell, Cari F.; DeBoer, George E.; Trumbull, Elise; Sexton, Ursula M.; Glassman, Sara; Huang, Chun-Wei; Nelson-Barber, Sharon – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study is part of a larger effort to investigate linguistic features of assessment items that might explain differential performance of English learners on science assessments. An analysis of a large set of multiple-choice items suggested two features that held promise in reducing the performance gap: the presence of contrast words and the…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Spanish Speaking, Grade 9, Grade 8
Linares, Rebecca E. – Teachers College Record, 2022
Context: Transnational emergent multilingual (TEM) adolescents are young people who maintain emotional, social, economic, and physical connections and networks to more than one country, often a home country and a host country. Because of their linguistic identities and varied schooling experiences, when they enroll in U.S. public schools, many are…
Descriptors: Literacy, Multilingualism, Self Concept, Native Language
Sahr, Annabell – Athens Journal of Education, 2020
This qualitative case study draws on a theoretical framework of translanguaging (García & Wei, 2014) and border pedagogies (Cashman, 2015) and seeks to shed light on the question of what role translanguaging can play in students' language learning in a German as a foreign language class at a Hispanic-serving university that is situated in the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Doppen, Frans H.; Wentworth, Laura F. – Journal of International Social Studies, 2020
While the research literature is replete with studies on student perspectives and their development of cross-cultural sensitivity, research on the perspectives of educators who host international preservice teachers is woefully lacking. This study seeks to fill that gap by assessing the experiences of 15 educators at an elementary host school in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, Student Attitudes, Preservice Teachers
Sabaté-Dalmau, Maria – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2020
Under the conditions of the globalized new economy, European universities have become profit-making institutions. They envision students as mobile workers-to-be whose employability chances depend on self-enterprising and on self-responsibilization for foreign-language command, and they now compete in the educational marketplace by targeting them…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Life Style, Universities, Occupational Mobility
Thomas, Rebecca S.; Waugh, Christian E. – Intercultural Education, 2020
This study examined the effects of a script-based communicative intervention (SBCI) on psychological and cultural adaptation in students studying abroad in second language (German and Spanish) contexts. Regardless of language proficiency, students with exposure to the SBCI, relative to those without the intervention, exhibited higher well-being…
Descriptors: Intervention, Study Abroad, German, Spanish
Thibaut, Patricia; Carvalho, Lucila – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2021
Young people are increasingly connected in a digital and globalized world, but technology-mediated interactions alone do not necessarily lead to a culture of meaningful participation and meaning making processes. Students from disadvantaged contexts are especially vulnerable to this. Drawing on the "Activity-Centred Analysis and Design"…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Cultural Capital, Case Studies, High School Students
Kuder, Emily – Hispania, 2021
Using open educational resources (OER) in post-secondary settings has shown to reduce costs for students, advance accessibility and equity, generate motivation, boost enrollment, and improve academic outcomes. This article details innovative coursework and assessment tools for a Spanish for the Professions course designed around OER content…
Descriptors: Languages for Special Purposes, Open Educational Resources, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Fernández, Ana M. – Hispania, 2021
The detrimental effects of neoliberalism accompany globalization. The paradoxes generated by the global-regional gap have revealed local cultures' double vulnerability to national and international development. Miguel Pereira fictionalizes this complex phenomenon in the film "Verónico Cruz. La deuda interna" (Argentina, 1988). Inspired…
Descriptors: Spanish, Films, Languages for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning
Perales-Escudero, Moisés – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
The goal of this paper is to describe a group of adult Mexican English learners' ideologies about different APPRAISAL patterns in English-language scientific texts. APPRAISAL is a descriptive framework of the linguistic resources used to convey feelings and attitudes (Martin & White, 2005). This topic is particularly interesting in EAP…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Health Sciences, English for Academic Purposes, Mexicans