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Mónica Cassaretto; Patty Vilela; Miguel Dávila; María Fernanda Páramo; María Soledad Rodríguez – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To evaluate the psychometric properties of the short version of the Spanish Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (SACQ-50, Spanish version). Participants: 1513 students from 14 universities in Peru, mainly females (61.5%), aged between 18 and 30 years. Method: Cross-sectional study with the questionnaire administered in person.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Questionnaires, Student Adjustment
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Zeynep Köylü; Nurullah Eryilmaz; Carmen Pérez-Vidal; Marjolijn Verspoor; Hana Gustafsson – Language Learning, 2024
Because of authentic exposure, study-abroad sojourners are expected to become more proficient in terms of holistic formulaicity (defined as targetlike language use of intensifiers, fillers, multiword sequences, lexical features, verb-argument constructions, pragmatic and discourse features, and so on), use of formulaic sequences, and lexical…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Language Usage, Language Proficiency, Diaries
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Maria Adelina Ianos; Ursula Hinostroza-Castillo; Fernando Senar; Cristina Petreñas – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This study examines the relationship between language attitudes and language use from a social cognition perspective in the context of Catalonia, a culturally and linguistically diverse Spanish Autonomous Community that has been implementing social and educational measures to promote the use of its own language, Catalan. We examined how implicit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Multilingualism, Language Usage
Diana G. Rodriguez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to understand the phenomena of bilingual counselors who work with the Latinx/e population and provide counseling services using the Spanish language. Specifically, this researcher hoped to highlight the voices of recently graduated bilingual counselors who graduated within the last 5 years from CACREP programs and…
Descriptors: Counselors, College Graduates, Bilingualism, Spanish
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Alexandra Babino; Blanca Jurado; Kimberly Muñoz – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
Using a holistic biliteracies framework, this longitudinal comparative case study explores how two racioinguistically marginalized BPSTs (one heritage Spanish/English bilingual and one initially Spanish-dominant Mexican national) grew in their understanding of biliteracies development and their enactment of biliteracies pedagogies in the beginning…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Spanish, English
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Yang Fu; Xiaohui Yan; Jiaqi Mao; Haibin Su; Fan Cao – npj Science of Learning, 2024
Reading difficulty (RD) is associated with phonological deficits; however, it remains unknown whether the phonological deficits are different in children and adults with RD as reflected in foreign speech perception and production. In the current study, using functional Near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), we found less difference between Chinese…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Adults, Children, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Sedor, Nicole – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
This longitudinal, multi-semester study investigates the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) in university-level communicative Spanish classrooms to find out how instructor feedback affects student performance on IPA assessments, if at all, and in what ways do teachers and students use feedback from the IPAs in their teaching and learning, if…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Tests, Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation
Office of English Language Acquisition, US Department of Education, 2023
States annually report the five languages other than English most commonly spoken by English learners (ELs) as well as the number of ELs who speak each of the "top five" languages. This fact sheet gives an overview of the most commonly spoken languages during the 2019-20 school year (SY). Fifty languages or language categories appear in…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Language Usage, Geographic Location, Spanish
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Elizabeth D. Peña; Lisa M. Bedore; Alejandro Granados Vargas – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Bilingual children are both over- and under-identified with developmental language disorder (DLD). We propose that this may be a function of monolingual approaches that fail to consider the dynamic nature of bilingualism as well as assumptions of bilingual delay. We explored the extent to which bilingual children with and without DLD…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Delayed Speech, Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities
Jonathan Avila – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Current speech-to-speech translation systems face challenges in effectively translating the nuances of prosody, which plays a pivotal role in conveying speaker intent and stance in dialog. This limitation restricts cross-lingual communication, especially in situations demanding deeper interpersonal understanding. To address this, this research…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Suprasegmentals, Translation, Barriers
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Morrison, Astrid; Tavakoli, Parvaneh – Modern Language Journal, 2023
To respond to recent calls for examining oral fluency from a broader social and communicative perspective, the current study aimed at investigating the effects of task communicative function on second language (L2) and first language (L1) speakers' fluency. Designing tasks that represent three different communicative functions (congratulations,…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Fluency, Native Language, Spanish
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Amanda Huensch – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study explored the effect of speaking task on midclause pausing characteristics in the L1 and L2 speech of the same speakers to gain further insights into the potential relationship between pause location and stages of speech production. Participants included English L1 learners of L2 French (n = 29) or Spanish (n = 27) from the publicly…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Speech, English
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Ryan W. Pontier; David Riera – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2024
This article focuses on self-identified Spanish-speaking early childhood educators' experiences with and views of bilingualism as they learned about translanguaging--a dynamic, liberatory, and culturally and linguistically sustaining theory and practice of language. Artifacts and conversations with teachers showed that, counter to many of their…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Spanish Speaking, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language)
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Falcon Restrepo-Ramos – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This study compares two linguistic landscapes and the concurrent language policies of two scenarios where minority languages coexist with Spanish. On one hand, in the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia, Spanish is in contact with an English-based Creole (Raizal Creole). Similarly, Valencian (Spain) coexists with Spanish as a national language.…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Language Planning, Educational Policy, Language Maintenance
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Rosalva Alamillo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigated how comfortable and secure heritage Spanish speakers feel about communicating in Spanish in public spaces of San Diego County, as well as the geographic distribution of Spanish use there. The goal was to determine the prevalence of Spanish use in the public sphere. Adult heritage Spanish speakers completed a survey about…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Language Usage, Interpersonal Communication, Incidence
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