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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, Sonia V. González, Dania López García, Patricio Márquez   +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
Abstract This article presents the first results of the study of argumentative essays in English as a foreign language and in Spanish as a foreign language and as a native language, carried out at Radboud University Nijmegen (formerly the University of Nijmegen) between 2002 and 2008.
Pieter de Haan, Kees van Esch
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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, Maria Pia Gomez‐Laich, Maria‐Jose Arrufat‐Marques   +2 more
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Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language in the XVII Century

Hispania, 1960
develop among those of the Iberian Peninsula, yet it became the tongue of Spain already since the appearance of its first vernacular literary documents.* The other dialects did not seem to have the same vitality and so Castilian expanded within non-Arabic Spain naturally, in a peaceful way, mainly by virtue of its literary production.' Since the XIIIth
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Anxiety and Reading Comprehension in Spanish as a Foreign Language

Foreign Language Annals, 2000
Abstract: This study explored the relationship between language anxiety and reading in Spanish. The issues addressed were: (1) the effect of language anxiety on the reading comprehension and recall of university‐level language students and (2) the effect of language anxiety on the reading process itself. A total of 89 participants, all students in two
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FrameNet as a Resource to Teach Spanish as a Foreign Language

2018
The advent of new technologies in our society has pervaded the field of language teaching. FrameNet is one of the tools whose potential for language teaching is still unexplored. In this chapter, I trace possible pedagogical implications and applications of the Spanish FrameNet in the Spanish as a foreign language (SFL hereafter) classroom. The chapter
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Lexical collocations and the learning of Spanish as a foreign language

2011
This chapter deals with the definition of collocation in books used for the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language (SFL). Different definitions of this concept are revised, and its characteristics are deeply discussed in order to distinguish them from free combinations and compounds.
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Methodologies and models in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language

Onomázein Revista de lingüística filología y traducción
In this paper, the evolution of the main language teaching methods and their treatment of learning difficulties is succinctly presented. The different methodologies that have been tested throughout the history of the teaching of a second language (L2) are supported by different theoretical principles and hypotheses. The different theoretical linguistic
Mónica Belda-Torrijos, Linda Palfreeman
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Teaching pronunciatin of Spanish as a foreign language

2011
The 1st Congress on Spanish as a Foreign Language in Asia Pacific (I CELEAP), Manila, Philippines, 21-22 November 2009.
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