This article reports on the integration of leadership studies into upper-level foreign language literature classes in German and Spanish in two undergraduate programs--a military university (USAFA) and a civilian university (UNC Charlotte). Taking into account ACTFL's [American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages] 21st Century Skills Map…

A growing number of scholars invested in Iberian Studies are asking how peninsular literary and cultural studies might be reimagined, and reinvigorated, by placing the Spanish and Portuguese canons into critical dialogue with each other, and with Galician, Catalan, Basque/Euskadi, and Latin American and North African immigrant writers, cultural…

This essay seeks to provide parallel and interchangeable approaches to teaching Ramon del Valle-Inclan's challenging play "Luces de bohemia". A greater understanding of the cultural and mental frameworks of the early twentieth-century Spanish spectator will permit students to penetrate the dense intertextuality that characterizes Valle's…

Incidental focus on form is one of several ways to direct language learners' attention to formal aspects of language within meaningful communicative contexts. Learners can benefit from focus on form, but the extent to which incidental focus on form, or any other type, is available to learners in advanced foreign language literature classes has not…

Proposes a strategy for teaching Hispanic literature by women that effectively circumvents two major obstacles: (1) the absence of a strong tradition of female-authored literature in Spanish, and (2) the presumed inaccessibility of this literature for male readers. (18 references) (GLR)

Paper presented at the Second International Congress on the Teaching of Spanish in Madrid, Spain, in February 1971. (DS)

Outlines comparative approach to translation as flexible method which consists of comparing literary works from the target language word for word with several competent translations. Uses concrete example from Spanish literature. (BK)

Issue devoted to ways in which foreign literatures are taught in the language classroom. (DS)

Continuing series on concepts in teaching Spanish language, literature, and culture. (DS)

Continuing series on materials available for the teaching of Spanish language and literature. (DS)

Attempts to formulate practical objectives in teaching foreign language classes. Phase one presents materials, and phase two relates grammatical structures and textbook materials to students' own interest and personal experience. (DS)

Offers a panoramic view of the assortment of theories and strategies dedicated to language teaching over the past 30 years and argues in favor of a method to join literature and language from the first weeks of study. Analyzes a series of texts that demonstrate how Spanish literature holds out new and uncommon options to understand the world. (EV)

Conference held February 1971 in Madrid, Spain. (DS)

Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference of the Ontario Modern Language Teachers' Association and the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers, Rochester, New York, March 31, 1973. (HW)