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Direct linkCamus, Pablo; Advani, Mehak – Hispania, 2021
Study abroad (SA) provides a space and place for second language (L2) learners to be challenged in terms of their target language skills and intercultural awareness. In order to appropriately equip learners, a task-based approach seems ideal to identify learners' specific needs (Long 2015). The present study reports a multiphase needs analysis…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Student Needs, Spanish
Llombart-Huesca, Amàlia; Pulido, Alejandra – Hispania, 2017
In recent years, the World Languages field has witnessed an increased interest in service-learning (SL) initiatives. Many SL projects focus on the potential that Spanish-speaking communities offer students of Spanish, as a foreign language, to increase their language skills and cultural understanding of these communities. Some authors, however,…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Native Language
Fernandes, Eugênia Magnólia da Silva – Hispania, 2021
Based on practical reflections on the role of language educators and Portuguese language learners in diasporic communities in the state of California, this short-form article shares academic contributions from the Luso-Brazilian Studies Program at the University of California, Davis, to underrepresented groups in Lusophone communities amidst the…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transformative Learning
Carreira, María M. – Hispania, 2018
The year 2017 saw the publication of one of the strongest endorsements of language education on record: "America's Languages: Investing in Language Education for the 21st Century" (henceforth "America's Languages"). Commissioned by a bipartisan group of members of Congress and authored by the Commission on Language Learning of…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Aristizábal, Juanita C.; Welch, Patrick McDermott – Hispania, 2017
This article describes the process by which the authors created a Virtual Learning Community for cultural and linguistic exchange between college students of Portuguese in the United States and undergraduate and graduate students of English in Brazil. In addition to describing the way the so-called tandem model for telecollaboration was adapted to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Computer Mediated Communication, Teaching Assistants
Pellettieri, Jill – Hispania, 2011
This pilot study investigates whether requiring participation in community-based learning can motivate intermediate level Spanish learners to engage in more frequent interaction in Spanish outside of the classroom and course requirements. Using the theoretical framework of willingness to communicate in a second language, this study combines both…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Spanish
