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Direct linkMario Alberto Martinez Garcia – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In recent years, the number of Mexican youth moving (back) to Mexico from the US has been steadily growing (Sanchez Garcia & Hamann, 2016; Jensen & Jacobo-Suarez, 2019). The Pew Research Center for Hispanic Studies estimates that between 2009 and 2014, roughly 1 million Mexicans and their families moved from the US to Mexico…
Descriptors: Mexicans, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Download full textHerrera, Luis Javier Pentón; Duany, Miriam – NECTFL Review, 2016
Native Spanish speakers from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, who are also English language learners, are a growing population of students in the K-12 classrooms throughout the United States. This particular group of students is oftentimes placed in Spanish-as-a-foreign-language classes that fail to meet their linguistic development…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish, Spanish Speaking, Native Speakers
McBride, Kara – Hispania, 2015
This study explores which features of Spanish as a foreign language (SFL) pronunciation most impact raters' evaluations. Native Spanish speakers (NSSs) from regions with different pronunciation norms were polled: 147 evaluators from northern Mexico and 99 evaluators from central Argentina. These evaluations were contrasted with ratings from…
Descriptors: Spanish, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers
Méndez López, Mariza G.; Bautista Tun, Moisés – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2017
The study aims to understand what factors may motivate and demotivate students with low emotional intelligence to participate in speaking activities during English class. Participants wrote an emotions journal to identify factors affecting student participation and were then interviewed at the end of the study period in order to elaborate on their…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Emotional Intelligence, Gender Differences, Teaching Methods
Garcia-Paine, Jose M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The United States has been experiencing an ever-growing increase in the last few decades of English Language Learner students (ELLs) whose primary language is Spanish and who are of Mexican descent. At the same time, the teaching force in the country remains strongly homogeneously White, English-speaking, and female. This creates an inequitable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Language Learners, Spanish, Native Speakers
Lopez, Jacqueline; Frawley, William; Peyton, Joy Kreeft – Heritage Language Journal, 2010
This paper examines the connection between heritage language and culture and the construction and maintenance of social and personal identities of the Cora, an indigenous people of the Mexican Sierra del Nayar, in Northwestern Mexico. Using the frameworks of the socially and linguistically mediated mind (Dennet, 1991; Harre & Gillet, 1994;…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Language Maintenance, Cultural Maintenance, Indigenous Populations
