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Cubillos, Jorge; Ilvento, Thomas – Hispania, 2018
Traditionally in the United States, study abroad has been regarded as the primary source for meaningful interaction with members of the target language (TL) community, particularly at the postsecondary level. Today, more than 300,000 college students study abroad every year, and most of them do so in short-term island programs (defined as programs…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Study Abroad, Foreign Countries
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LeLoup, Jean W.; Schmidt-Rinehart, Barbara C. – Hispania, 2018
This current study reports the findings of sociolinguistic research investigating the place of the "voseo" in the Spanish language curriculum in the United States. The study describes the results of questionnaire responses from 177 US Spanish teachers and survey responses from 560 US college students of Spanish. Both instruments sought…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
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Lado, Beatriz; Bowden, Harriet Wood; Stafford, Catherine; Sanz, Cristina – Hispania, 2017
Experience with a second language (L2) has been shown to facilitate learning of a third or subsequent language (L3) (Sanz 2000). However, little is known about how much L2 experience is needed before benefits for L3 development emerge, or about whether effects depend on type of L3 instruction. We report two experiments investigating initial…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Processes, Bilingualism, Educational Experiments
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Elola, Idoia; Mikulski, Ariana M. – Hispania, 2016
Following a cognitively-oriented framework, this study builds upon the authors' previous work (Elola and Mikulski 2013; Mikulski and Elola 2011), which analyzed writing processes (planning time, execution time, revision time), fluency, and accuracy of Spanish heritage language (SHL) learners when composing in English and in Spanish. By analyzing…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Native Speakers
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Torres, Julio; Serafini, Ellen J. – Hispania, 2016
Scholars of task-based language teaching (TBLT) advocate for the identification of learners' communicative needs to inform syllabus design, particularly in language for specific purposes contexts (e.g., Long 2015). However, little research has applied TBLT principles in designing Spanish for specific purposes curricula. Moreover, despite the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Languages for Special Purposes
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White, Justin – Hispania, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to compare structured input (SI) with other input-based instructional treatments. The input-based instructional types include: input flood (IF), text enhancement (TE), SI activities, and focused input (FI; SI without implicit negative feedback). Participants included 145 adult learners enrolled in an intermediate…
Descriptors: Spanish, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Schoonmaker-Gates, Elena – Hispania, 2015
Although previous research has documented the relationship between voice-onset time (VOT) and the production of foreign accent in English and Spanish, less is known about the role of this cue in perception. VOT refers to the aspiration that occurs between the release of a stop consonant and the beginning of the following segment. In Spanish and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Pronunciation, Second Language Instruction
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Gurzynski-Weiss, Laura; Long, Avizia Y.; Solon, Megan – Hispania, 2015
Despite myriad changes to language teaching methods over time, university-level classroom spaces have largely remained the same--until now. Recent innovations in classroom space design center on technological advances, include movable furniture and coffee-shop style rooms, and are believed to facilitate language learning in several ways.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Facilities Design
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Czerwionka, Lori; Cuza, Alejandro – Hispania, 2017
The current study examines English-speaking learners of Spanish and their pragmatic development of request forms during a six-week immersion program in Madrid, Spain. Elicited production and intuition data were analyzed, focusing on personal deictic orientation, directness evidenced by clause type, and the use of "por favor"…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
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Kuriscak, Lisa – Hispania, 2015
This study focuses on variation within a group of learners of Spanish (N = 253) who produced requests and complaints via a written discourse completion task. It examines the effects of learner and situational variables on production--the effect of proficiency and addressee-gender on speech-act choice and the effect of perception of imposition on…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Language Variation
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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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McBride, Kara – Hispania, 2015
This study explores which features of Spanish as a foreign language (SFL) pronunciation most impact raters' evaluations. Native Spanish speakers (NSSs) from regions with different pronunciation norms were polled: 147 evaluators from northern Mexico and 99 evaluators from central Argentina. These evaluations were contrasted with ratings from…
Descriptors: Spanish, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers
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Austin, Jennifer; Blume, Maria; Sanchez, Liliana – Hispania, 2013
In this exploratory study of subtractive bilingualism in Spanish-English bilingual children, we present evidence that crosslinguistic influence has a selective effect on heritage first language loss. Differences in feature strength between English and Spanish in interrogative and negative polarity item (NPI) sentences seem to affect the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Syntax, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning
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Kirk, Rachel W. – Hispania, 2013
This study examines the effects of processing instruction (PI) alone versus PI and output (O) on the acquisition of three conjunctional and infinitival phrases in Spanish. Seventy intermediate and advanced-intermediate high school participants received: 1) PI on three consecutive days (PI + PI + PI); 2) PI for two days and meaning-based output…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Processing, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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VanPatten, Bill; Borst, Stefanie – Hispania, 2012
In the present study, we examine the roles of 1) explicit information about language provided to learners prior to treatment and 2) aptitude (specifically grammatical sensitivity) within Processing Instruction. Forty-two learners of Spanish in their third-semester of study were divided into two groups: those who received explicit information (EI)…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Grammar, Aptitude Tests
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