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Brantmeier, Cindy; Dolosic, Haley; Balmaceda, David; Li, Yanjie – Hispania, 2019
The ratio of women to men is 4 to 1 in beginning university Spanish courses, and this gap widens the higher the level of instruction (Chavez 2001). Prior experiments on reading in Spanish show that the interaction of readers' gender and passage content plays a significant role with learners at the intermediate levels, but not at advanced levels of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Reading Skills
Perez, Marisol Santiago – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study is to validate the following hypothesis: First, spoken accents have a major influence and can affect listeners' personal attitudes and second, native Puerto Rican speakers will speak English as a second language without wanting to sound like a North American English speaker. This study will contribute to research on the…
Descriptors: Puerto Ricans, Spanish, Language Variation, Pronunciation