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Direct linkArnhart, Jeanette – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In the context of the Northwest Arkansas (NWA) regional setting, this study examines the effects of the Spanish for Heritage and Native Speakers (SHNS) model from multiple vantage points. Educational capital and biculturation approaches are employed to help theoretically frame post-secondary educational success and ethnic identity, respectively.…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Hispanic American Students, Spanish, Native Speakers
Abdi, Klara – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2011
This article draws on data from an ethnographic multiple-case study on the identity, positioning, and interactions of Spanish as a heritage language (SHL) students in regular Canadian high school Spanish classes. Interview and classroom observational data are discursively analyzed to reveal the presence of a form of language ideology that equates…
Descriptors: High Schools, Ideology, Literacy, Spanish Speaking
Zimmerman, Nancy S. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Having orally proficient Spanish speaking heritage learners in a class alongside monolingual English speakers who are learning Spanish as a second language is quite the challenge: the heritage learners' ability to converse can be intimidating to the non heritage learner, but at the same time, the non heritage learner's ability to grasp the grammar…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Learning Theories, Heritage Education, Second Language Learning
Gignoux, Alicia – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This is a qualitative interpretive study that explores the past and present experiences of heritage learners (HLs) of Mexican descent who were studying or had recently studied advanced Spanish in institutions of higher education. All of the participants had been exposed to Spanish in the home and began their studies in elementary or middle school…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Environment, College Students, Heritage Education
Peer reviewedFaltis, Christian Jan – Bilingual Review, 1984
Describes a study which examined the literacy approach to Spanish for Native Speakers (SNS) by focusing on one SNS class. The focus was on the relationship between the teachers' and the students' perceptions of the uses for Spanish literacy and the kinds of tasks found in textbooks and assignments. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Higher Education, Interviews, Language Usage
McGarry, Richard – Applied Language Learning, 2004
This study examines the pedagogical and pragmatic motives behind error correction both in classroom contexts and in everyday conversation among native Spanish-speaking English teachers in Costa Rica. Survey and interview data are analyzed and discussed in terms of participants' attitudes toward correction of errors in L1 and L2 in various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Error Correction, English Teachers, English (Second Language)
