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Urrea, Evelyn Durán; Meiners, Jocelly G. – Research-publishing.net, 2019
The development of language courses designed specifically for Spanish heritage learners has recently gained much attention at all levels of education in the US. Since heritage learners started to acquire the language since childhood at home, their needs are different from those of students in the traditional foreign language classroom. To fulfill…
Descriptors: Spanish, Native Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Shared Resources and Services
Yoon, Jiyoung – Online Submission, 2019
This study examines the common pedagogical approaches of L2 Spanish textbooks that are currently used at the college-level in the United States, and investigates whether they embrace the notion of input as a key concept in aiding L2 learners in learning new vocabulary words through activities that guide them from input/comprehension to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Blake, Robert J. – L2 Journal, 2020
L2 lexical studies have established that learners need to acquire knowledge of the first 3,000 most frequent words in order to enjoy 95% coverage of the vocabulary used in spontaneous speech (Nation 2006). However, there has been little data available that reveal how many of these most frequent words can be recognized by university language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Bilingualism
Suarez, Eugenio Dante; Nishikawa Chavez, Katsuo; Ruiz, Bladimir – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2020
This paper describes a faculty-led summer program in Madrid, Spain. We argue that it represents a case study in the implementation of best practices in study abroad, particularly as it relates to experiential programs that include an internship component. Adding to a growing consensus on best practices for these types of educational opportunities,…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Summer Programs, Interdisciplinary Approach, Liberal Arts
Schmidt, Lauren B. – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
This study examines how language attitudes play a role in the adoption of dialectal variants in second language (L2) pronunciation in a study abroad context. Twenty-four North American university students participating in a 6-week program in Buenos Aires, Argentina, were administered pre and posttest questionnaires and a posttest oral production…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Study Abroad
Farrell, Thomas S. C.; Avejic, Vanja – TESL Canada Journal, 2020
This paper presents a case study that examined the principles and practices of one novice English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher at a prominent English language institution in Central America. More specifically, this qualitative study sought to contribute to the discussion of the perceived interdependent influences of EFL teachers' thoughts…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Spišiaková, Mária; Kittová, Zuzana – Advanced Education, 2020
The paper focuses on education in the field of foreign languages, particularly Spanish, in the framework of university study of economic and managerial orientation in Slovakia in order to find out what the labour market requirements are for graduates in the field of foreign language skills. In our research, we focus on Spanish, as no similar…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Economics Education, Spanish
Lloyd-Hazlett, Jessica; Knight, Cory; Ogbeide, Stacy; Trepal, Heather; Blessing, Noel – Professional Counselor, 2020
The coordination of primary and behavioral health care that holistically targets clients' physical and mental needs is known as "integrated care." Primary care is increasingly becoming a de facto mental health system because of behavioral health care shortages and patient preferences. Primary care behavioral health (PCBH) is a gold…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Physical Health, Mental Health, Primary Health Care
Villalobos-Buehner, Maria – The EUROCALL Review, 2020
The goals of this research were twofold. First, to measure changes in cultural awareness levels between two groups of students in their third semester of a Spanish class. The trained group formed by university students from the USA collaborated with another group of university students from Colombia using Skype. The second aim was to identify…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Undergraduate Students, Computer Mediated Communication
Loewen, Shawn; Isbell, Daniel R.; Sporn, Zachary – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
Hundreds of millions of language learners around the globe study a second language with popular apps such as Duolingo, Rosetta Stone, Busuu, and Babbel. This study examined the effectiveness of one app, Babbel, for developing both receptive linguistic knowledge of vocabulary and grammar, as well as oral communicative ability in Spanish as a second…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ferrada, Juan Sebastián; Bucholtz, Mary; Corella, Meghan – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2020
Although hegemonic approaches to education privilege rationality as the sole legitimate form of knowledge production and consumption, research on emotion in socially transformative learning demonstrates that it is only through affective investment that intellectual engagement takes place and leads to social change. Hence, the agentive action of…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Student Attitudes, Racial Bias, Ethnicity
Urbieta, Alexandra Santamaría; Peñalver, Elena Alcalde – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
The aim of this study is to assess the needs and perceived difficulties of students of a master's degree on Bilingual Education who have had to work on a master's dissertation in English. First, some relevant studies in the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) will be reviewed, with a specific focus on those that tackle the challenges that…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Writing (Composition), Research Projects, Orientation Materials
Zheng, Yongyan; Lu, Xiuchuan; Ren, Wei – Modern Language Journal, 2020
This study uses a Q methodology to track the changing motivational profiles of 15 Chinese university students simultaneously engaged in second-language (L2) English and third-language (L3) Spanish learning over 1.5 years. Guided by complex dynamic systems theory (CDST), the study aims to investigate the initial trigger that propelled the Chinese…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Preuss, Michael; Sosa, Eric; Rodin, Jason; Ramos, Jorje; Dorsett, Christine; Burleson, Chenoa – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2020
A sense that there are a limited number of role models at colleges and universities for Hispanic and other minority students has been a concern of researchers in higher education for a number of years but little is actually known about who Hispanic students consider a role model. Similarly, researchers have investigated the impact of mentoring…
Descriptors: Role Models, Mentors, Preferences, Hispanic American Students
Monteagudo, Henrique; Muniain, Facundo Reyna – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
The present contribution focuses on the Galician-descendant community in the city of Buenos Aires. Its aim is to draw attention on the academic interest of research on the processes of assimilation to the language and identity of reception (in that case, Spanish) and maintenance or recovery of the language and identity of origin in the case of a…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, Immigrants, Acculturation, Spanish