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Cathy Hauspie; Stijn Schelfhout; Nicolas Dirix; Lot Fonteyne; Mark Janse; Arnaud Szmalec; Alexandra Vereeck; Wouter Duyck – Language Learning, 2024
Studying Latin in secondary education is still widespread in Europe and believed to result in cognitive benefits, even beyond the linguistic domain. In this study we explored the relation between such study and later academic achievement in higher education (N = 1,898). First, we demonstrated that Latin students exhibit increased levels of study…
Descriptors: Latin, Second Language Learning, Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Diana Marcela Duque Salazar; María Alejandra Tangarife Loaiza; Ángela Patricia Velásquez Hoyos – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
This systematic literature review examines the panorama of interculturality in rural contexts of bilingual education in Latin America. It aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge in Latin America and identify key themes, challenges, and gaps in the field. The review highlights the importance of recognizing and…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Bilingual Education, Latin Americans, Cultural Pluralism
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Carolyn S. F. Silva – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2025
"As the experiences of AfroLatinx groups continue to gain momentum in academic conversations, AfroBrazilians' identity and racialized experiences remain undertheorized. Anchored by the conceptual framework of AfroLatinidades and methodologically situated in the realm of qualitative research, this study draws from oral history interviews to…
Descriptors: Race, Racism, Blacks, Educational Experience
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Lunn, Patricia; Frantzen, Diana – Hispania, 2017
Linguists are an increasing presence not only in graduate programs but at undergraduate institutions as well, and this could lead to positive interdisciplinary changes in curricula. Literary/cultural texts contain masterful examples of how linguistic features are used to communicate meaning, and learners need to notice these features in order to…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish Literature
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Cortés, Jimy Alexander; Arellano, Iván Darío – English Language Teaching, 2017
Even though the majority of Colombian professors are also involved in research, they have limitations in their English language skills that separate them from the rest of the scientific society. Evidently, these limitations have become an obstacle in the awareness of professors' modest, but no less important, research work. In order to carry out…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Role, Scientific Research, College Faculty
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Gómez Sará, Mary Mily – HOW, 2017
This article reviews the background of the foreign language bilingualism in Colombia, as well as the Colombian bilingualism plans and the policy launched between 2004 and 2016. Then, these plans and policy are analyzed taking into account the most common criticisms from the academic community. In this sense, aspects such as the lack of continuity,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Bowler, Megan – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2020
This paper takes stock of the state of language learning in the UK, as the country teeters on the edge of Brexit and becomes used to being led by the first Prime Minister in over 50 years to have studied Languages at university. The author, Megan Bowler, a Classics student at the University of Oxford, looks at the broad benefits to individuals,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Poveda, David – Reading Research Quarterly, 2012
In this article, I examine literacy artifacts placed by students in different locations of a state-run secondary school in the city of Madrid, Spain. The data were gathered as part of a two-year long multilevel ethnography focused on the social and academic trajectories of immigrant students in Spanish compulsory secondary education. The analysis…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Latin Americans, Anthropological Linguistics, Ethnography
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Jager, Sake, Ed.; Kurek, Malgorzata, Ed.; O'Rourke, Breffni, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2016
Trinity College Dublin was proud to host, in April 2016, the Second International Conference on Telecollaboration in Higher Education, with the theme "New Directions in Telecollaborative Research and Practice." Over two and a half days, 150 participants offered 95 research presentations, posters, and "problem shared" sessions.…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Cooperation, Higher Education, Educational Research
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Pickens, Cortney – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2008
The way in which foreign languages, including the Classics, are taught is evolving. There are those who teach language for literature-based, instrumental purposes only, and those who want to see foreign language education cross boundaries into literature, culture, history, and geography. Foreign language educators have the opportunity to teach…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Strasheim, Lorraine A. – 1976
This mini-text is a set of classroom ready Latin readings, a selection of Martial's epigrams complete with Latin-English vocabularies and reading notes. The readings concern the Roman holiday Saturnalia, at which time the Romans exchanged gifts and favors. The first epigram, Xenia (gifts), gives the reason for the following epigrams, which are…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Classical Literature, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background
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Strasheim, Lorraine A. – 1976
This mini-text is a series of Martial's epigrams on the slave. The epigrams deal with: slave torture, tenderness to a slave, the slave as a curiosity, flogging, the slave as property, a selling point, the slave as a person, sex and the slave, and slaves as gifts. The epigrams come with complete Latin-English vocabularies and reading notes. The…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Classical Literature, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background
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Strasheim, Lorraine A. – 1976
Taking the epigrams of Martial and some of the reading notes from the Loeb Classical Library, this document presents classroom-ready readings on foods, including a menu excerpted from Martial and a series of two- to four-line epigrams on a variety of foods:peppers, beans, flour, beets, lettuce, turnips, leeks, cheese, sausage, eggs, bread,…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Classical Literature, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background
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Lacasa, Judith Noble; Lacasa, Jaime – Hispania, 1983
Discusses a survey which ranks relative student interest in different aspects of Hispanic culture. Information on family sphere, social behavior, values, institutions and attitudes, and diversions are considered most important. (EKN)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Latin American Culture, Second Language Learning, Spanish
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Mantero, Miguel – Foreign Language Annals, 2002
Investigated text-centered talk in an introduction to Hispanic literature university level classroom. Framed within sociocultural theory, the study aimed to establish the nature of classroom talk in the college level foreign language bridge course. Aimed to clarify the relationship between cognitive processes and language acquisition in a foreign…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Latin American Literature
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