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Collentine, Karina – Hispania, 2016
Tasks provide engaging ways to involve learners in meaningful, real-world activities with the foreign language (FL). Yet selecting classroom tasks suitable to learners' linguistic readiness is challenging, and task-based research is exploring the relationship between learners' overall abilities (e.g., reading, grammatical) and the complexity and…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, College Students
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Yanguas, Inigo – Hispania, 2010
The present preliminary study empirically investigated Spanish heritage language (HL) speakers in Spanish for native speakers (SNS) college courses. It focused on their attitudes and motivation to improve their HL and on their varying linguistic competences in that language. A well-established second language acquisition (SLA) motivational model…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, Second Language Instruction, Spanish