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Hudgens Henderson, Mary; Wilson, Damián Vergara; Woods, Michael R. – Hispania, 2020
This study investigates correlations of course level, gender, and ethnic identity labels with attitudinal dimensions toward Spanish by Spanish as a Heritage Language Learners in New Mexico. Participants in first-semester (n = 327) and fourth-semester (n = 174) Spanish as a Heritage Language courses rated twelve items designed to index language…
Descriptors: Spanish, Heritage Education, Self Concept, Hispanic American Students
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Sung, Ko-Yin – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2011
This survey study, which involved 134 language learners enrolled in first-year Chinese as a foreign language classrooms in the US universities, intended to address the research question, "Do learners' strategy use differ based on the following learner differences: (1) gender; (2) home language/culture; and (3) number of other foreign languages…
Descriptors: Test Results, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese
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Shankar, Shalini – Review of Research in Education, 2011
Recent studies of Asian American youth language practices have presented compelling insights about the identities and migration experiences of young people of Asian descent. This article offers a detailed examination of the relationship between language use and select issues concerning Asian American youth, including social life, schooling,…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Social Life, Adolescents, Migration