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Attitudes to Spanish language variation. A study on Portuguese students of Spanish as a Foreign Language

Language Learning in Higher Education, 2023
Abstract Drawing on data collected via a web-based survey, this study investigates the attitudes of SFL (Spanish as a Foreign Language) learners in Portugal towards four Spanish varieties. A verbal guise experiment was designed to collect students’ perceptions of language variation.
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Language Ideology: The Case of Spanish in Departments of Foreign Languages

Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2003
In this article we investigate language ideology in a department of Spanish. We are concerned with examining the acquisition and transmission of linguistic culture in departments of foreign languages within university settings and the ways in which views about non‐English languages that are part of the American cultural dialogue are maintained and ...
Guadalupe Valdés   +3 more
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Spanish: The Foreign National Language

adfl, 2006
An issue that currently dominates discussions in and about foreign language departments in higher education in the United States concerns the explo sive growth of enrollments in Spanish courses, a situation that has become synthesized in a catchy acronym used widely now to encompass the other foreign languages: LOTS (languages other than Spanish ...
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The development of writing in English and Spanish as foreign languages

Assessing Writing, 2005
Contains fulltext : 41625.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)
Haan, P.J.M. de, Esch, C.J.M. van
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Comprehension of Indirect Meaning in Spanish as a Foreign Language

Foreign Language Annals, 2016
AbstractThis study investigated comprehension of indirect meaning among learners of L2 Spanish via an original computer‐delivered multimedia listening test. The comprehension of implied speaker intention is a type of indirect communication that involves the ability to understand implied intention by using linguistic knowledge, contextual cues, and the ...
Naoko Taguchi   +2 more
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