Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: estudiantes afroamericanos

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This study investigates experiences and investments in Spanish language learning among African American graduates of a university in the southeastern US. In response to evidence of African American underrepresentation in this field, findings will forward those factors which may encourage advanced Spanish study and create a sense of belonging as learners and speakers. Data emerges from eight language learning autobiographies, each written by a self-identifying African American who completed a Spanish major or minor at university. Inductive coding and narrative analysis methods yield the following themes: (1) Limited family/community connections to TL speakers, but wide family interest/support for language learning; (2) Inspiring teachers, formal learning environments, and content, but with significant content omissions; (3) Navigation...

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Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: pedagogía crítica

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La enseñanza del español comprometida con la justicia social debe operar en términos de accesibilidad, equidad y representatividad. Sin embargo, en la actualidad la organización de la educación lingüística se caracteriza, en general, por su naturaleza instrumentalista y por sus vínculos con el colonialismo y las políticas neoliberales. Con el objetivo de fomentar el diálogo sobre alternativas que fomenten la justicia social en el marco de la enseñanza del español, planteamos en primer lugar los retos a los que se enfrenta la disciplina para afrontar su descolonización y ofrecemos una panorámica de los enfoques que, desde posicionamientos interdisciplinares, buscan contribuir a...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión escrita

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Few studies have analyzed the writing features of second language (L2) alongside heritage language (HL) learners of Spanish. Focusing on the development of writing complexity, we collected data from students at the beginning and at the end of a composition sequence. Comparing the groups at the outset revealed HL students' greater mood complexity. After 14 weeks, both groups improved in tense complexity, mean essay length, and lexical sophistication. Our findings suggest that, given sufficient time, both HL and L2 students can progress in similar ways in at least some measures of linguistic complexity. Nevertheless, they might gain from instruction that facilitates new and diverse vocabulary, and the construction of longer sentences. L2 students specifically would benefit from greater emphasis on the subjunctive. Our study supports the...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza de español en Estados Unidos

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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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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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Language teaching is a highly emotional profession that can affect the teachers' well-being and learners' achievement. However, studies have yet to explore the potential of positive psychology interventions and artificial intelligence (AI) tools to promote the psycho-emotional aspects of second language (L2) teachers and learners. Further, studies regarding the effectiveness of AI in promoting the learners' language skills...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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Este trabajo investiga los efectos de la instrucción pragmática y el enfoque por tareas en la producción escrita de correos electrónicos en situaciones de reclamos, por parte de aprendices de español L2 (EL2), en un contexto de aula virtual. Se analiza un corpus compuesto por las redacciones de estudiantes universitarios de EL2 en Suecia, obtenido a través de un diseño de prueba anterior, tratamiento pedagógico, prueba posterior y posterior prolongada, así como de hablantes del español L1. Este corpus es complementado con un cuestionario de hábitos pragmáticos aplicado al grupo de español L1. El análisis observa el uso de secuencias de inicio, modificaciones externas y...

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Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: pronunciación

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This article presents the Spanish version of the Computer-Assisted Listening and Speaking Tutor (CALST), an online platform that can be used to complement pronunciation training in the classroom. The Spanish CALST offers listening, speaking, and spelling exercises for Northern-Central Peninsular Spanish as an L2. Exercises are tailored by an automatic comparison with the learner's native language based on a database of phonetically specified phoneme inventories for over 500 languages, with the result that learners with different L1s are exposed to different...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: cognición y procesamiento

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This study compares metalinguistic awareness of students in a one-way partial Spanish immersion (IMM) program to that of their English-only (ENG) counterparts at the same school. Students in grades 3 and 5 from each program completed a sentence grammaticality judgment task in English delivered orally. Measures of IMM students' Spanish proficiency were included to examine the relationship between L2 Spanish ability and metalinguistic awareness. Grade 5 IMM students outperformed ENG students on the grammatically anomalous sentences, but no difference was found at grade 3. For the semantically anomalous sentences, IMM students outperformed their ENG counterparts at grade 3, but the reverse was true for grade 5. In summary, IMM student… performance on the anomalous sentence tasks did not show a robust bilingual advantage when compared to...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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Despite the growing interest in incorporating textual glosses into second language (L2) reading in hypermedia and paper media, no agreements have been reached as to whether and what extent a textual gloss facilitates L2 learners' vocabulary acquisition in hypermedia and paper media. The present study meta-analysed the overall effects of textual glosses and different glossing types (i.e. language, location, and mode) on L2 vocabulary acquisition, as well as the moderation effects on the variability of L2 vocabulary acquisition effect sizes. Based on a comprehensive search, 20 studies involving...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pedagogía crítica

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This paper examines the impact of a curriculum designed to develop students' Critical Language Awareness (CLA) in two postsecondary Spanish advanced grammar courses and a Hispanic Linguistics Master's course in a public institution of the US Northeast. The study includes a unique population of Latinxs, most of them born and raised outside the US, in the Dominican Republic. Quantitative analyses reveal CLA development in the areas of language variation, linguistic diversity, language ideologies, Spanish in the US, bilingualism, and translanguaging. Qualitative data shows that students approached the course experiencing linguistic insecurity and interrogating their own academic knowledge of grammar, whereas, after taking the course, learners move from feeling "grammarless" (students' perception of their Spanish as lacking grammar) to...

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