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Rosti Vana; Lillie Padilla – Hispania, 2024
The present study examines the lack of representation of minority communities in the existing literature by examining the representation of Afro-Latinxs in texts and visuals in seven Spanish as a Heritage Language (SHL) textbooks, and the ideologies behind these representations. Drawing upon Norman Fairclough's (1995) model for conducting Critical…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Content Analysis, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Benjamin Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines heritage language learners of Spanish enrolled in university Spanish courses, focusing on their strategic use of suprasegmental speech features in two speaking tasks. The research investigates attitudes' influence on heritage language learners' speech production in different task types. Participants engaged in two…
Descriptors: Language Rhythm, Intonation, Spanish, Oral Language
Maria Fernanda Gavino – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This project explores how the variation in language experiences and attitudes that Mexican American Spanish heritage speaker bilinguals in the United States have affects their speech perception in both their languages. Heritage language bilinguals speak as a first language a minority language that they have cultural ties to (e.g., Spanish in the…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Mexican Americans, Bilingualism, Spanish Speaking
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Jessie D. Dixon – Hispania, 2024
In Spanish language curricula, it is essential that we teach about "afrodescendientes" in Latin America and the Caribbean to present an inclusive representation of the diverse people, practices, and cultural products. Their perspectives and cultural products must be integrated in the curricula of Spanish undergraduate programs beyond the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Latin Americans
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Diaz, Adriana Raquel; Mejía, Glenda; Villamizar, Andrés Gabriel – L2 Journal, 2022
This paper is motivated by growing, inexorable tensions between societal impetus to advance inclusive (non-binary) linguistic change across many Spanish-speaking communities, and the seemingly removed reality of the Spanish as a world language classroom. As a first step in reconciling these tensions and breaking free from apparent disciplinary…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
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Mattson-Prieto, Raquel; Showstack, Rachel – Language Learning, 2022
This study investigated classroom interaction through the framework of "stancetaking" (Du Bois, 2007) to understand how Spanish second language (L2) learners positioned themselves when participating in communicative language learning activities. Data came from transcribed audio and video recordings of three 90-minute lessons in one…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Classroom Communication
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Schmidt, Lauren B. – Hispania, 2022
The objective of the current study is to investigate the development of awareness of dialectal differences in Spanish by second language learners in a formal language learning classroom setting in the United States. Sensitivity toward different regional varieties of a language forms part of socio-linguistic--and ultimately,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Dialects, Pronunciation
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Glyn Hicks; Laura Domínguez; E. Jamieson; Monika S. Schmid – Language Learning Journal, 2024
This article sheds light on the linguistic and extralinguistic conditions that determine the likelihood of L1 grammatical attrition in late sequential bilinguals. We explore whether aspectual interpretations associated with the present tense may be a vulnerable area for the native grammar of 30 late Spanish-English bilinguals who have settled in…
Descriptors: Native Language, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ian Matthew Michalski – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In this dissertation, I explore the sociolinguistic perception of stylistic variation by native Spanish speakers and second language learners of Spanish. Within the field of Hispanic sociolinguistics and there is growing interest in studying the social information that listeners extract from language variation that speakers employ (e.g., Chappell,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Student Attitudes
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Pozzi, Rebecca; Bayley, Robert – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Although recent research suggests that gains are made in the acquisition of dialectal features during study abroad, the few studies that have been conducted on this topic in Spanish-speaking contexts have focused primarily on features characteristic of Spain. This article examines the L2 acquisition of phonological features characteristic of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonology, Spanish, Study Abroad
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Daniel J. Olson; Lori Czerwionka – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
While language dominance has been crucial in the study of bilingualism, recent research has called for more detailed measures to systematically account for the observation that bilinguals use different languages in different domains, a phenomenon formalized in the Complementary Principle. Few studies have systematically measured these…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Bilingualism, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
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Moreno, Oscar; Garrett-Rucks, Paula – Dimension, 2021
Despite the increasing number of U.S. born Latinos, placing heritage and native speakers in the Spanish curriculum is still a challenge (MacGregor-Mendoza & Moreno, 2020). The present article: (1) addresses the unique needs of heritage speakers in the Spanish curriculum; (2) problematizes traditional grammar-based placement exams; and (3)…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Language Tests, Spanish, Heritage Education
Fransheska Arias Reyes; Ivanna Tavarez Vasquez; Pedro Tavárez DaCosta – Online Submission, 2025
Our country, which is today the Dominican Republic, is a Spanish speaking country due to the historical and well known fact that the then Hispaniola Island or Santo Domingo was split into two different colonies by effect of the Aranjuez Treaty (1777), held between the two Colonial Metropolis of Spain and France thus establishing the French…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Code Switching (Language), Higher Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Fernández-Sánchez, Javier; García-Pardo, Alfredo – Hispania, 2023
In this paper we analyze the semantic and pragmatic properties of a colloquial interrogative construction attested in European Spanish, which we label invariable "qué" questions (IQQs). In doing so, we contribute to the better understanding of a relatively understudied phenomenon in Spanish, given that IQQs have been mainly approached…
Descriptors: Semantics, Pragmatics, Language Variation, Spanish
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Parmegiani, Andrea – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
This paper reports on a writing programme I started at Bronx Community College to improve academic success among recently immigrated Spanish-speaking students by linking ESL courses to Spanish academic literacy courses within the framework of a learning community. My reflection begins by articulating the pedagogical rationale for looking beyond…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Writing Instruction, Longitudinal Studies, English (Second Language)
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