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Velazquez-Mendoza, Omar – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation focuses on the apparent linguistic discontinuity reflected in notarial texts from the twelfth to the thirteenth century in the Iberian Peninsula. Particular attention is given to the historical development of Spanish personal a (the direct object animacy marker), which can be used to trace the communicative continuity that must…
Descriptors: Evidence, Medieval History, Sociolinguistics, Semantics
Butvilofsky, Sandra Adriana – ProQuest LLC, 2010
More than 60% of children labeled English language learners in U.S. schools today are simultaneous bilinguals, and little is understood about their bilingual and biliterate potential, because theories of sequential bilingualism dominate the field. Most studies exploring bilingual children's writing development have focused almost exclusively on…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, Writing (Composition), Grade 2
Cuenca, M. H.; Barrio, M. M. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
Prosodic information aids segmentation of the continuous speech signal and thereby facilitates auditory speech processing. Durational and pitch variations are prosodic cues especially necessary to convey prosodic boundaries, but alaryngeal speakers have inconsistent control over acoustic parameters such as F0 and duration, being as a result noisy…
Descriptors: Cues, Speech, Speech Impairments, Acoustics
Fechter, Sharon Ahern – Hispania, 2010
Two recent reports offer some paradigm-shifting proposals regarding the teaching of world languages in general at the undergraduate level. The Modern Language Association's (MLA's) "Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World" and "Report to the Teagle Foundation on the Undergraduate Major in Language and Literature"…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Undergraduate Students, Community Colleges, Educational Change
Hurtado, Luz Marcela; Estrada, Chelsea – Modern Language Journal, 2010
This article examines the role of linguistic and sociolinguistic factors in the second language (L2) acquisition of Spanish vibrants. The data consist of 2 sets of recordings from 37 students enrolled in a Spanish pronunciation class. The statistical program VarbRul was used to analyze 7,597 samples. The vibration (simple or multiple) and the…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Second Language Learning, Articulation (Education), Spanish
Delgado, Rocio – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2010
This article explores the nature of instruction provided to Latino English language learners (ELLs) with disabilities. The case of a bilingual teacher who worked with an ELL with disabilities is presented. This teacher's voice describes her practice, beliefs, and other factors influencing her work with ELLs with disabilities. Finally, the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Disabilities, Bilingual Teachers, English (Second Language)
Herrera, Lazaro Moreno; Wedin, Asa – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2010
This article is based on results from a baseline study for an intended intervention project in bilingual-intercultural education in the Municipality of San Miguel Ixtahuacan, in the Department of San Marcos, Guatemala. To a great extent the article deals with issues of bilingual education from the perspective of social justice. It analyses the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Multicultural Education, Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries
Fraga-Canadas, Cynthia P. – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and the ACTFL suggest that a high proficiency in the Spanish language is essential for all Spanish teachers. With the growth of the Spanish-speaking population in the United States and the diversity of Hispanic culture, teacher education programs need to ensure that teacher candidates are…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Questionnaires, Teacher Educators
del Olmo, Margarita – Intercultural Education, 2010
The aim of this paper is to share the conclusions of a recent ethnographic study carried out in Madrid from 2005 to 2008 to analyze the effects of a program implemented by the Community of Madrid, Spain, to address diversity in schools. The Program was given an English name--"Welcome Schools"--and was aimed at preparing children recently…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Program Effectiveness
Barillas-Chon, David W. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2010
To date, research on immigrant Latino students has neglected to fully explore the school experiences of immigrants from Oaxaca, a community that has historically experienced economic, political, social, and cultural oppression in Mexico and now in the United States. Drawing from formal and informal interviews and observations, I examine the high…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Mexican Americans
Gavarro, Anna; Torrens, Vicenc; Wexler, Ken – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2010
The literature generally assumes that object clitic omission is equally allowed in all child languages. In this paper we challenge this claim by means of an elicitation experiment carried out with children acquiring two closely related languages, Catalan and Spanish. Our results show that while omission is high in young Catalan-speaking children,…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Grammar, Spanish, Child Language
Barrio, Concepcion; Yamada, Ann-Marie – Research on Social Work Practice, 2010
Objectives: This article describes the process of developing a culturally based family intervention for Spanish-speaking Latino families with a relative diagnosed with schizophrenia. Method: Our iterative intervention development process was guided by a cultural exchange framework and based on findings from an ethnographic study. We piloted this…
Descriptors: Intervention, Schizophrenia, Focus Groups, Ethnography
Hodgson, Miren – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2010
This article presents a study of a between-subjects design experiment on the comprehension of telicity in simple telic predicates (e.g., "John filled the bucket") and locatum predicates (e.g., "the water filled the bucket") in L1 Spanish. Weist, Wysocka, and Lyytinen (1991) for English and Finnish, and Van Hout (1997, 1998b) for English and Dutch…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages), Spanish, Second Language Learning
Abbott, Annie; Lear, Darcy – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
Using the National Standards' 5 C's as a framework, the authors examine student success in Spanish community service-learning at making connections across academic disciplines, to information and viewpoints that they encounter in the community, and to concrete social action. We use data from students, instructors, and community partners involved…
Descriptors: Social Action, National Standards, Service Learning, Spanish
Heyman, Janna C.; Gutheil, Irene A. – Health & Social Work, 2010
The purpose of this study was to determine which of two educational interventions delivered in Spanish would influence Latino elders' attitudes toward and comfort with end-of-life planning in comparison with a control group receiving only standard information routinely provided. Using a posttest-only control group design, elders receiving home…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Intervention, Multivariate Analysis, Hispanic Americans