Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo study abroad

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En los últimos años ha habido un aumento en las investigaciones sobre hablantes de herencia hispana que estudian en países hispanohablantes; sin embargo, el currículo de las clases de español en este contexto no siempre toma en cuenta las fortalezas y necesidades de estos estudiantes. Los docentes en el extranjero necesitan conocimiento sobre estos estudiantes y las prácticas pedagógicas adecuadas para ellos para que puedan sobresalir. En este trabajo, presentamos cuatro recomendaciones basadas en la conciencia crítica del lenguaje para que los docentes en contextos de inmersión puedan aumentar la inclusión y la transformación de los hablantes de herencia en sus clases: (1) reconocer y aprovechar sus repertorios lingüísticos, (2) respetar e incluir la variación sociolingüística, (3) promover interacción en la comunidad local y (4)...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo análisis de manuales

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This article illustrates how neoliberalism has penetrated language teaching (materials) in a very profound manner. In addition, it issues something of a call to language teachers and students to become aware of the ideological nature of the materials that mediate their activity. The article contributes to a growing field of research on the links between the content and activities of language teaching materials and the economic, political, social, cultural and historical context from which they arise. It begins with a discussion of the current dominant form of global capitalism, neoliberalism, and what it entails in terms of policies, practices and ways of being in the world. It then moves to a review of previous publications on how neoliberalism has a direct impact on the content and activities contained in commercial language...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo análisis de manuales

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El libro de texto ha sido objeto de interés y, a su vez, un elemento sobre el que se han vertido numerosas críticas tanto a nivel curricular como educativo. A pesar de ello, en el ámbito hispánico todavía no contamos con un cuerpo contundente y sostenido de investigaciones sobre libros de texto de segundas lenguas (L2) o extranjeras (LE). Este monográfico reúne una colección de artículos sobre libros de texto centrados en el español como L2/LE, pero con implicaciones de interés también para otras lenguas y tradiciones textuales, con el fin de cumplir un doble propósito: por un lado, ofrecer un estado crítico del arte que de entidad a este ámbito en relación con la enseñanza del español y, por otro, proporcionar...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo justicia social

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This study examines the impact of implementing a social justice culture curriculum on learners' development of the intercultural communicative competence (ICC) and on their desire to continue learning Spanish. Two types of culture instruction—a traditional curriculum centered around foreign Spanish-speaking countries and an experimental curriculum focused on US Hispanic/Latinx communities—were implemented in third and fourth Spanish courses at a US university in the Southwest. A survey was developed to measure participants' (n = 264) ICC and intention to continue learning Spanish. Results indicate that both types of culture curriculum have a positive impact in the development of ICC cognitive domain, but only the US...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo ideología lingüística

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This article examines the experiences of Spanish high school teachers in Tennessee, a state in the New Latino South where anti-immigrant sentiments and rejection of languages other than English are commonplace. Through a narrative inquiry approach, we explored how these contextual realities impacted teachers' perceptions of their roles and how they shaped their pedagogical goals. Participants' narratives reveal that, despite sharing similar realities at the macro level (the U.S. and the New Latino South), teachers' experiences were dependent on two factors at the meso level (their communities and schools). Teachers in urban areas and private schools worked in less challenging environments. Teachers in rural areas,...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo justicia social

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Social justice pedagogies (SJPs) are increasingly common in world language (WL) classrooms. However, little is known about how these activities unfold in real time. This qualitative, observational, and exploratory study adopts a multimodal, microanalytic lens to examine the enactment of an in-class social justice (SJ) activity involving four learners in a postsecondary second language Spanish course in the U.S. Using video data, the study draws on Sociocognitive Theory and Multimodal Interaction Analysis to pursue two goals: (1) to investigate whether learners enacted the SJ activity in ways consistent with both the activity's instructions and broader SJPs, and (2) to explore whether and how language learning emerges within this interaction. The discussion raises important considerations about the design of SJ activities and offers...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo pedagogía crítica

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This article explores the current politics and practices of language teaching and learning at higher education in the US, and the ethical dilemmas that we face as instructors of Spanish as a Second Language (L2) with a focus on climate emergency. How can we teach and learn Spanish—a colonial language mostly in Latin America, but also in Africa, Asia, and even Oceania—in the context of climate and the environment without somehow perpetuating the ‘colonial normal’? How can we teach and learn Spanish in the context of climate and the environment without somehow propagating the colonial imperative? If we acknowledge that the climate crisis is the result of intersectional colonial and neocolonial processes at various levels, we need to decolonize our teaching dynamics. Thus, to tackle these questions, we propose radical curricular...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo pedagogía crítica

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Este artículo explora aproximaciones críticas a la enseñanza del español asentadas en la pedagogía freireana, llevándolas, en particular, al contexto de la educación universitaria. Partimos de la experiencia pedagógica propia en universidades de Uruguay y EE.UU., intentando llevar el diálogo suscitado por la comparación de nuestros contextos particulares a un plano más allá de lo coyuntural, esperando así que nuestras reflexiones resulten fructíferas para un grupo amplio de educadoras y educadores. El enfoque de investigación y de escritura adoptado en este trabajo (de corte autoetnográfico) permite incluir nuestras subjetividades y nuestro compromiso con los programas en que fuimos docentes y también planificadoras. Tratamos algunas dificultades que surgen de la implementación de cursos que no siguen las dinámicas y tradiciones...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo investigación

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This study investigates 70 university participants? selection of topic and acceptability relating to the explicit inclusion of social justice topics in intermediate language courses in universities in the United States. This study draws from the Critical Pedagogy and Task-Based Language Teaching as frameworks in the second language (L2) classroom. Participants enrolled in intermediate-level Spanish courses completed a series of projects in which tasks centered on social justice topics of their choosing. Qualitative data analysis revealed that language learners perceived the projects as opportunities to use real world, authentic language with the purpose of communicating in the target language. Learners reported that the incorporation of social justice in the L2 classroom provided new, meaningful learning while they developed greater...

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