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Folkart, Jessica A. – Hispania, 2022
Cristina Fernández Cubas's short story "La nueva vida" ("La habitación de Nona" 2015) foregrounds the play between truth and fiction, past and present, and death and identity, where the widowed protagonist finds meaning not in philosophy, but in physics. Widowed in 2007 at age 62, Fernández Cubas focalized this story through…
Descriptors: Spanish Literature, Literary Genres, Fiction, Physics
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Civil, Marta; Quintos, Beatriz – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background/Context: There is much to understand about how parents and children interact around mathematics, particularly with families whose home language is different from the children's main language of schooling. Families of immigrant origin are likely to bring experiences and knowledge that may be different from what their children's schools…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Mathematics Education, Bilingual Students
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de Diego-Lázaro, Beatriz – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Studies on multilingual word learning have focused on identifying a bilingual advantage over monolingual peers, paying little attention to the relationships between bilinguals' existing vocabulary size and novel word learning. This study compared monolingual and bilingual school-age children on word learning tasks in familiar and unfamiliar…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
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Maria-José González-Valenzuela; Dolores López-Montiel; Fatma Chebaani; Marta Cobos-Cali; Elisa Piedra-Martínez; Isaías Martín-Ruiz – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
This study analyses the impact of certain cognitive processes on the writing of words in languages with different orthographic consistency (Spanish and Arabic) in the first and second years of Primary Education. One hundred twenty-eight schoolchildren from Ecuador and 109 from Algiers participated in this study. All the participants were aged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Spanish, Arabic
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Jorge González Alonso; Pablo Bernabeu; Gabriella Silva; Vincent DeLuca; Claudia Poch; Iva Ivanova; Jason Rothman – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
The burgeoning field of third language (L3) acquisition has increasingly focused on intermediate stages of language development, aiming to establish the groundwork for comprehensive models of L3 learning that encompass the entire developmental sequence. This article underscores the importance of a robust epistemological foundation, advocating for…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Artificial Languages, Second Language Learning, Individual Differences
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McClain, Janna Brown; Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette; Flores, Israel; Buckley, Laura – Bilingual Research Journal, 2021
Emergent bilinguals (EB) from Spanish-speaking homes are an already large and rapidly growing population in the U.S., yet limited research examines their language environments, particularly in the English dominant contexts where most attend school. This explanatory sequential mixed-methods study first quantitatively examines adults' use of Spanish…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Preschool Education
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Phillips, Nick – Hispania, 2021
This essay examines the state of Digital Humanities work in the subfield of literature from the Spanish speaking world. It provides a case study of a multiyear digital mapping project conducted with undergraduate students at a highly selective liberal arts college. This project serves as a means of examining the digital state of the field and…
Descriptors: Spanish, Fiction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sanders, Robert – Hispania, 2021
Requirements for the undergraduate major in Hispanic literature and offerings of Spanish peninsular and Latin American literature courses surveying the canon, masterpieces, major works, major authors, major trends, or representative works at fifty-six selected US colleges and universities were examined for academic years 1990-91, 2002-03, 2013-14,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Latin American Literature, Undergraduate Students, Spanish
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Christou, Spyros; Sanz-Torrent, Monica; Coloma, Carmen J.; Guerra, Ernesto; Araya, Claudia; Andreu, Llorenç – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2021
Background: Function words, and more specifically prepositions and prepositional locutions, are considered to be one of the most important difficulties for children with DLD. Aims: To examine the capacity of bilingual children with developmental language disorder (DLD) to comprehend different Spanish prepositions and prepositional locutions in a…
Descriptors: Children, Developmental Disabilities, Bilingualism, Comprehension
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Banegas, Darío Luis; López, María Fernanda – Applied Linguistics, 2021
The aim of this commentary is to discuss and promote discussion on some linguistic and pedagogical issues around the use of gender inclusive language, particularly the -e morpheme in plural forms, in Spanish. Its speakers are experiencing and becoming aware of language change in real time concerning the use of morphosyntactic choices that seek…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sex Fairness, Morphemes, Spanish
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Lozano-Argüelles, Cristina; Fernández Arroyo, Laura; Rodríguez, Nicole; Durand López, Ezequiel M.; Garrido Pozú, Juan J.; Markovits, Jennifer; Varela, Jessica P.; de Rocafiguera, Núria; Casillas, Joseph V. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Previous studies attest that early bilinguals can modify their perceptual identification according to the fine-grained phonetic detail of the language they believe they are hearing. Following Gonzales et al. (2019), we replicate the double phonemic boundary effect in late learners (LBs) using conceptual-based cueing. We administered a forced…
Descriptors: Adults, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Cues
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Mattson-Prieto, Raquel; Showstack, Rachel – Language Learning, 2022
This study investigated classroom interaction through the framework of "stancetaking" (Du Bois, 2007) to understand how Spanish second language (L2) learners positioned themselves when participating in communicative language learning activities. Data came from transcribed audio and video recordings of three 90-minute lessons in one…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Classroom Communication
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Banerjee, Ipshita; Lambert, Joseph M.; Copeland, Bailey A.; Paranczak, Jessica L.; Bailey, Kathryn M.; Standish, Cassandra M. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2022
Little research has highlighted how evidence-based practices (e.g., functional communication training [FCT]) might be adapted for bilingual learners with disabilities. In the current study, we served 2 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and challenging behavior whose parents primarily spoke Spanish at home, and whose teachers primarily…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Behavior Problems, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Dykstra, Shelley; Sánchez-Gutiérrez, Claudia; Marcos Miguel, Nausica; Alins Breda, Diego – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
While the literature on second language reading agrees that exposing students to graded readers (GRs) is beneficial, little is known about how students perceive them. This study explores students' anxiety and overall experiences in a reading program (RP) using GRs in a large first-year Spanish language program. Data are based on 312 students' pre…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Spanish, College Second Language Programs
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Hancock, Charlotte R.; Adams, Mary J.; Kissau, Scott – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
Over past decades, there has been a paradigm shift in WL instruction, moving away from traditional, grammar-based programs and toward instruction that promotes student proficiency in the target language. Despite this growing attention to proficiency-based instruction, few studies have investigated the relationship between proficiency-based…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Language Proficiency, Oral Language, Outcomes of Education
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