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Pérez-Núñez, Antonio – Hispania, 2023
ChatGPT employs a deep learning (DL) model constructed using artificial neural networks and designed to analyze input data and extract increasingly complex features (Hu and Buehler 2023). Its chatbot interface makes it easy to use, requiring just a prompt to generate a response from the model. It is capable of producing fluent text in multiple…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Artificial Intelligence
de Oliveira e Silva Lemos, Marcela – Hispania, 2022
Portuguese language instruction is relevant to global businesses, diplomacy, security, and environmental affairs, yet it accounted for only 0.7% of total world language enrollments at universities in the United States in 2016. As part of an attempt to promote enrollments in Portuguese at an American public research institution with a top-rated…
Descriptors: Languages for Special Purposes, Portuguese, Second Language Instruction, Universities
Camus, Pablo; Advani, Mehak – Hispania, 2021
Study abroad (SA) provides a space and place for second language (L2) learners to be challenged in terms of their target language skills and intercultural awareness. In order to appropriately equip learners, a task-based approach seems ideal to identify learners' specific needs (Long 2015). The present study reports a multiphase needs analysis…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Student Needs, Spanish
Cubillos, Jorge; Ilvento, Thomas – Hispania, 2018
Traditionally in the United States, study abroad has been regarded as the primary source for meaningful interaction with members of the target language (TL) community, particularly at the postsecondary level. Today, more than 300,000 college students study abroad every year, and most of them do so in short-term island programs (defined as programs…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Study Abroad, Foreign Countries
Matus-Mendoza, Mariadelaluz – Hispania, 2020
The Philadelphia Mural Movement is internationally known; admittedly, it is one of its most sought attractions when visiting the city. Using this form of art as the backdrop, a telecollaborative task-based project between two universities located in two different countries, in two different continents, was designed in fall 2015. Universidad…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Study Abroad
Carreira, María M. – Hispania, 2018
The year 2017 saw the publication of one of the strongest endorsements of language education on record: "America's Languages: Investing in Language Education for the 21st Century" (henceforth "America's Languages"). Commissioned by a bipartisan group of members of Congress and authored by the Commission on Language Learning of…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Cameron, Robert D. – Hispania, 2017
Although millions of speakers of Spanish employ "voseo", the twentieth century did not see a single article published in "Hispania" that suggested incorporating instruction on "voseo" into the language classroom. In contrast, the twenty-first century has already seen three articles published in "Hispania"…
Descriptors: Spanish, Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Czerwionka, Lori; Cuza, Alejandro – Hispania, 2017
The current study examines English-speaking learners of Spanish and their pragmatic development of request forms during a six-week immersion program in Madrid, Spain. Elicited production and intuition data were analyzed, focusing on personal deictic orientation, directness evidenced by clause type, and the use of "por favor"…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
Martinsen, Rob – Hispania, 2011
Short-term study abroad programs of less than a semester are becoming increasingly popular among undergraduate students in the United States. However, little research has examined the changes in students' cultural sensitivity through their participation in such programs or what factors may predict growth and improvement in such areas. This study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cultural Awareness, Native Speakers, Study Abroad
Lord, Gillian – Hispania, 2009
This study contributes to ongoing investigations of what linguistic gains are feasible in a second language (L2) during study abroad (SA). Through case-study methodology, one participant's written production is analyzed in detail to investigate the processes of SA and L2 acquisition. The participant wrote weekly journal entries in Spanish during…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Case Studies, Spanish
Collentine, Joseph – Hispania, 2010
I provide an update on the state of the art of the research--the last one being Collentine (2003)--on the acquisition of the function of the subjunctive and mood selection, as well as the research's implications for pedagogy. The article considers what we currently know about the role of universal grammar, psycholinguistic perspectives on the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Study Abroad, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Meredith, R. Alan – Hispania, 2010
The interdependence of language and culture highlights the need to find methods for second language students to acquire cultural information and practices. This article reviews definitions of culture posited by anthropologists and language educators and discusses problems related to the recent paradigm shift from "small "c" and big…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, National Standards, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries

Ruiz-Fornells, Enrique – Hispania, 1983
Describes the various options available to American college students who want to study in Spain and some of the problems associated with each option regarding credit transfer. (EKN)
Descriptors: College Credits, Higher Education, Study Abroad, Transfer Policy

Ryan, John M.; Lafford, Barbara A. – Hispania, 1992
Second-language acquisition data are provided from a study abroad environment to support or reject prior assertions about natural states in the acquisition of the Spanish copulas "ser" and "estar." It is suggested that students tend to acquire the different copulas in given ordered stages. (20 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Spanish

de Felix, Judith Walker; Pena, Sylvia Cavazos – Hispania, 1992
Table 2, Correlation Coefficients, missing from the authors' article published in "Hispania" (v75 n2 1992), is presented. (LB)
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
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