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Border harm and affective injustice: The politics of anger at the Melilla border, Spain

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines protests in a detention center in Melilla, Spain—a site where structural violence intersects with the everyday harms of confinement. Adopting a justice and dignity‐centered perspective, we analyze grassroots forms of resistance emerging at the border. The study focuses on the protests of Tunisian migrants and explores the
Corina Tulbure
wiley   +1 more source

Lengua y cultura: una propuesta teórico-práctica para cerrar la brecha

open access: yesStudia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2016
In the present article we revise the concepts of culture and intercultural competence, include the five dimensions of the concept of culture proposed by Moran (2001) –products, practices, communities, persons, and perspectives- in Byram’s (1991) model ...
Cecilia Silva
doaj   +3 more sources

Teachers’ Perspectives on the Impact of English Immersion on Spanish Language Development in Primary Education

open access: yesColombian Applied Linguistics Journal
This study analyzed the effects of constant exposure to English as a foreign language on developing Spanish as the first language among elementary school students.
Jorge Andrés Giraldo Gómez   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the Feasibility of Wearable Devices for Physiological Monitoring and Heat Risk Prediction in Outdoor Agricultural Workers

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Outdoor agricultural workers experience significant heat exposure, yet few studies have evaluated whether wearable sensors can reliably measure continuous physiological responses in real field conditions. This pilot study examined the feasibility and predictive utility of core temperature, hydration, heart rate, and movement data ...
Sinan Sousan   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction

open access: yesRiCognizioni, 2015
Introduction to the monographic section "AMERICANISMOS: ¿UNA PERSPECTIVA EUROCÉNTRICA?"
Eva Bravo-García
doaj   +1 more source

Essential, Yet Precarious, Mistreated, Sick and Medicalized: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed‐Methods Study on Homecare Aides in Spain

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Homecare aides (HCAs) are professional non‐family caregivers, who support dependent individuals to live at home with dignity; yet in Spain they remain understudied and vulnerable, often facing precarious working conditions. We aimed to characterize HCAs’ employment, living conditions, health, and exposure to workplace violence and ...
Albert Navarro‐Giné   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

LexComSpaL2: A Lexical Complexity Corpus for Spanish as a Foreign Language

open access: yesProceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
We present LexComSpaL2, a novel corpus which can be employed to train personalised word-level difficulty classifiers for learners of Spanish as a foreign/second language (L2). The dataset contains 2,240 in-context target words with the corresponding difficulty judgements of 26 Dutch-speaking students who are learning Spanish as an L2, resulting in a ...
Degraeuwe, Jasper, Goethals, Patrick
openaire   +3 more sources

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

The contribution of prosody to foreign accent: A study of Spanish as a foreign language

open access: yesLoquens, 2017
The aim of this study is to analyze the contribution of prosody on the perception of foreign accent by Brazilian learners of Spanish. The data were collected from 15 participants and a control group of 5 native Spanish speakers. A perceptual test was performed with two different speech styles (reading and storytelling) and with delexicalized and ...
Cristiane Conceição Silva   +1 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Translation and Cross‐Cultural Adaptation of the Chronic Rhinosinusitis Control Test for Global Use

open access: yesInternational Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction The Chronic Rhinosinusitis Control Test (CRCT) is a patient‐reported outcome measure (PROM) written in English that is psychometrically validated to measure chronic rhinosinusitis control. Because the availability of translated PROMs is a driver of data equity—collection of data that is fair and generally representative—our ...
Hye K. Pae   +52 more
wiley   +1 more source

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