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Tavares, Vander – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2023
Research on language teacher identity has grown exponentially over the last two decades. By researching language teacher identity, we develop a better understanding of how sociological issues generally impact teachers' lives. For non-native language teachers, in particular, challenges tend to originate from language ideologies around…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Professional Identity, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Agnieszka Stepkowska – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The paper focuses on the communication of three bilingual couples, each speaking a different lingua franca (LF). Positioning theory offers a methodological framework to explain language choice in interactive positioning within personal contacts. A comparative view of the couples' storylines benefits from the differences between them. The analysis…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Form Classes (Languages), Language Attitudes, Intercultural Communication
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Allés-Torrent, Susanna; Myers, Megan Jeanette; Ortega, Élika – Hispania, 2021
The Digital Humanities (DH) has been for many years, even decades, in constant development and self-definition and has been able to gather a diverse and international community that goes beyond the traditional framework of academia. Modern Languages (ML) also finds itself in the process of establishing the terms in which it intersects with the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Portuguese, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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Vasconcelos, Ricardo – Hispania, 2020
Portuguese is the fifth most-spoken language in the world, with about 260 million speakers (and growing to an expected 400 million by 2050), the third most spoken in the West, the most widely spoken in the Southern Hemisphere, an official language in 9 countries and other regions. It is present in Europe, South America, Africa, and parts of Asia.…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Reimão, Ana – Research-publishing.net, 2020
"Micro-contos," or micro-fiction, are very short and concise literary texts that require close-reading and inference from the reader. In this case study, I will describe how I have used these widely available texts in a Portuguese A2/B1 language module to develop analytical and other soft skills. I will demonstrate how this activity…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Skill Development, Fiction, Critical Reading
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Sack, William; Maggin, Sherry; Miller, Zachary F. – Hispania, 2021
The United States Military Academy at West Point is a four-year, undergraduate institution that educates and trains its students (cadets) to become future leaders in the US Army officer corps. The Department of Foreign Languages (DFL) at West Point plays an integral role in developing cadets' cultural and linguistic competencies in preparation for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Military Training, Universities, Languages for Special Purposes
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Tardy, Christine M.; Sommer-Farias, Bruna; Gevers, Jeroen – Written Communication, 2020
Increased attention to genre in writing studies has brought a proliferation of new terms and concepts for capturing the complexity of writers' knowledge about genres, including genre knowledge, genre awareness, recontextualization, conditional knowledge, and metacognition. Definitions of these concepts have at times conflicted, and their…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Literary Genres, Metacognition
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Soulé, María-Victoria; Stylianou, Kostas; Yerou, Christina; Xerou, Eftychia; Tsitsi, Theologia; Charalambous, Andreas – Research-publishing.net, 2021
The HERO project aims to develop a training program for caregivers to be working in the elderly care sector. The program is particularly addressed to caregivers from Middle Eastern and African countries as refugees and intends to help them integrate into European society. This paper seeks to offer an overview of the project, including its…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Caregiver Training, Program Development, Refugees
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Aleksic, Gabrijela; García, Ofelia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Based on an analysis of the video recording and transcript of one lesson chosen by preschool teachers in Luxembourg as an example of translanguaging pedagogy, this article shows the teachers' limited understandings of translanguaging. As a result of a new 2017 multilingual education policy for early childhood, the first author designed a…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Code Switching (Language)
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Fernandes, Eugênia Magnólia da Silva – Hispania, 2021
Based on practical reflections on the role of language educators and Portuguese language learners in diasporic communities in the state of California, this short-form article shares academic contributions from the Luso-Brazilian Studies Program at the University of California, Davis, to underrepresented groups in Lusophone communities amidst the…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transformative Learning
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Travers, Will – Hispania, 2017
On college campuses throughout the United States, classes for decades have been offered to help Spanish speakers learn Portuguese, augmented recently by similar courses in Italian, French, and Catalan. Though there exist numerous commonalities between these innovative course offerings, the pivotal role of Spanish stands out. This essay therefore…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism
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Waldvogel, Dieter A.; de Souza, Ismênia Sales – Hispania, 2017
Brazil's meteoric rise as Latin America's economic superpower has prompted the United States government to reassess its strategic vision of South America and its relationship with Brazil. The next generation of US economic, business, political, and military leaders will likely be faced with a South American landscape heavily dominated by Brazil.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Portuguese
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Maddox, John – Hispania, 2017
In times of crisis when literature and world languages are threatened by economic hardship, they should draw closer to African diaspora studies. The African diaspora is so vast, longstanding, and diverse that it must be studied using a comparative, multilingual, interdisciplinary, and international approach that includes study in French,…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Multilingualism, Interdisciplinary Approach, Spanish
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Jones-Kellogg, Rebecca – Hispania, 2015
This paper describes a task-based activity used at the United States Military Academy, in their first- through third-semester Portuguese language sequence "Proficiencies" (Proficiências). The stand-alone task-based activity can be an effective tool in gaining foreign-language proficiency at even the lowest levels of classroom instruction…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Vocabulary Development, Learning Processes, Task Analysis
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Cervi-Wilson, Tiziana; Brick, Billy – Research-publishing.net, 2016
As the employment of graduates appears among the performance indicators of institutions in higher education, universities are focussing more and more upon the development of employability related skills to enhance students' prospects in the job market. All UK universities are measured on the first jobs that their students acquire after graduation.…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Employment Potential
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