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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Spanish as a Foreign Language"”.
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Understanding Student Motivation in the Spanish as a Foreign Language Classroom
In the foreign language classroom, motivation is often identified as a critical factor to success in encounters of prolonged learning (Dörnyei, 1990, 2019; Dörnyei & Ushioda, 2021). Earlier motivational frameworks (e.g., Deci & Ryan, 1985) conceptualize motivation from two lenses: intrinsic and …
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An exploration of the process of reading to write used by good Spanish-as-a-foreign-language students
… in the process of reading to write used by foreign language (FL) students is lacking. This study is descriptive in nature as its main purpose was to generate a hypothesis about how good Spanish-as-foreign-language (SFL) students in a third-year level class performed reading-to-write tasks. …
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(Un)natural Bridges, (Un)safe Spaces: A Critical Qualitative Study of Spanish as a Foreign Language Educators’ Perceptions of Heritage Language Learners in Mixed Classrooms
Chicana feminist scholar Gloria Anzaldúa has been an integral part of research on hybrid identities and consciousness. In an increasingly multicultural and multilingual school system, educators of Spanish as a foreign language are faced with a different audience to the ones they were trained to …
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The Impact of Topic Familiarity, L2 Reading Proficiency, and L2 Passage Sight Vocabulary on Incidental Vocabulary Gain Through Reading for Adult Learners of Spanish as a Foreign Language
… nature of the impact of the following reader-based variables on L2 incidental vocabulary gain through reading: (a) L2 reading proficiency, (b) L2 passage sight vocabulary, (c) topic familiarity, and (d) course level. A secondary question investigated the presence of any story level effects on …
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Clitic-doubled left dislocation in L2 Spanish: findings from learners' production data
… interface phenomenon, in adult learners of Spanish as a foreign language. CLLD implies moving the direct or indirect object to the left periphery of the sentence, and adding a resumptive clitic pronoun that does not add any meaning to the sentence. While a canonical sentence can be used in …
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Foreign Language Acquisition among Children with Down Syndrome: A Precedent Study for Christian Schools
… with Down syndrome are largely excluded from the foreign language classroom, and no research exists documenting their abilities to learn a foreign language. Research is needed to demonstrate the abilities of children with Down syndrome to learn a foreign language so that they might be included in …
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The effects of hypermedia annotations on incidental vocabulary learning and reading comprehension
… of glossing lexical items in computer-based reading materials has examined the role of hypermedia annotations on incidental vocabulary learning and reading comprehension (AI-Seghayer, 2001; Chun & Plass, 1996; Gettys, Imhof & Kautz, 2001; Laufer & Hill, 2000; Lomicka, 1998). Of …
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Literal and figurative meanings of Spanish spatial prepositions in Chinese students’ acquisition of Spanish as a third language
… of the spatial and figurative meanings of five Spanish spatial particles, namely sobre, encima, debajo, bajo and en, by a group of Chinese university students of Spanish as a foreign language at intermediate and upper-intermediate language levels. More specifically, this study aims to answer two …
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Der Einsatz lateinamerikanischer Telenovelas im Spanischunterricht am Beispiel von Yo soy Betty, la fea
Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, das Potenzial lateinamerikanischer Telenovelas als audiovisuelle Medien für den Fremdsprachenunterricht Spanisch und deren Eignung für die Förderung der funktionalen kommunikativen Kompetenz, der interkulturellen kommunikativen Kompetenz und der Medienkompetenz …
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The Effects of Hypertext Glosses on L2 Vocabulary Acquisition: A Meta-Analysis
In the field of second language acquisition (SLA), "comprehensible input" (Krashen, 1985) has been considered a critical factor to help learners acquire foreign and second languages (L2). From this perspective, the notion of extensive or free voluntary reading (Day & Bamford, 1998; Krashen, 1993) …
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The effects of comprehensive written corrective feedback on the revision and acquisition of specific L2 forms
The role of written corrective feedback (WCF) as an instrument to facilitate Second Language Acquisition (SLA) has attracted much attention over the past fifteen years. However, the results from existing research on the effects of WCF (e.g., Truscott, 2007; Van Beuningen et al., 2012) present …
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Influencia de la dramatización en la expresión oral de discentes universitarios extranjeros y nativos
… tesis trata de dilucidar si una metodología basada en la dramatización y afín al enfoque comunicativo provoca efectos positivos en la expresión oral del alumnado universitario que participa en la investigación. Para ello, se ha diseñado un programa de dramatización que se ha implementado de …