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Haley, Maria Esperanza. "Integration of technology in the curriculum language arts: Spanish phonemic awareness." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2467.
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This paper explores the importance of providing teacher training in the use of technology to reap the benefits of adding computers to the classroom. It describes how a basic software program was used to create an interactive program to teach phonics in Spanish to kindergarten students in a Structured English Immersion Program. A benefit to having good phonemic awareness skills in Spanish is that it will help the student in developing phonemic awareness skills in English and will facilitate learning to read English words.
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Moore, Shannon. "The spanish conquistador in the Florida of the INCA." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 1994. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/132.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Sciences<br>History
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Lundvall, Christian. "How can Teacher increase the Motivation of Students in the Spanish Subject?" Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-33558.
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Motivation är en grundläggande faktor till elevers skolframgång och det finns ett samband mellan elevers motivation och lärarens förhållningssätt. Syftet med detta arbete var att undersöka vad en lärare kan göra för att öka elevers motivation, framförallt inom spanskämnet. Jag ville också ta reda på vad elever själva tycker triggar dem bäst att komma igång att jobba på lektionerna. Som metod använde jag en kvantitativ enkätundersökning i en årskurs 7 och en årskurs 9, samt kvalitativ semi-strukturerad intervju av tre spansklärare. Det var 18 elever i årskurs 7, och 20 elever i årskurs 9, som svarade på enkäten. Enkätundersökningen bestod av enkla ja och nej frågor rörande vad de motiveras av till att jobba på lektionerna, samt tre tips på vad en lärare kan göra för att öka elevers motivation. Intervjun med spansklärarna kopplades till enkätfrågorna för att komplettera med ett ämnesdidaktiskt lärarperspektiv. Resultaten av denna studie visade att inre motivation är det viktigaste för elevernas lärprocess för både de sjunde- och niondeklassare som ingick i undersökningen. Läraren kan bidra med att vara snäll, uppmuntrande, hjälpsam och göra lektionerna varierande. För att en lärare ska väcka elevernas intresse måste läraren sätta sig in i elevernas situation och förstärka elevernas naturliga motivation. Eleverna måste känna att de har kontroll över sitt eget lärande. För att höja sina elevers motivation i ämnet spanska kan spansklärare utforma aktiviteter där eleven kan skapa en framtida vision av sig själv som användare av det spanska språket, och variera undervisningen med olika teman för att sätta de olika momenten i språkinlärningen i ett sammanhang. I sin helhet ville jag med denna studie få en bättre förståelse för vad en lärare kan göra för att öka elevers motivation i allmänhet, och främst inom spanskämnet.<br>How can a Teacher increase the Motivation of Students in the Spanish Subject?
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Gutiérrez-Albilla, Julián Daniel. "Re-reading Buñuel's Spanish-language films : psychoanalysis, sexual dissidence, and the visual arts." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.616234.
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Martínez, Ramón Antonio. "Spanglish is spoken here making sense of Spanish-English code-switching and language ideologies in a sixth-grade English language arts classroom /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1971760601&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Heston, Dawn M. "Scaffolding the Continua of Biliterate Development in the Spanish Language Immersion Classroom." Thesis, University of Missouri - Columbia, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13877148.
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<p> The purpose of this qualitative research project is to describe the scaffolding strategies used by a teacher to engage and support students as they work within the continua of biliterate development in the fifth-grade Spanish language immersion classroom. As language immersion programs and dual language schools continue to grow in popularity in Canada and the United States, this study seeks to illuminate and interpret a teacher’s work with students in the Spanish Language Immersion Program (SLIP), a research site located in the urban Midwestern United States.</p><p> This instrumental case study employed the lens of Sociocultural Theory to explore the principal research question: How does the teacher scaffold student development of biliteracy within language and content instruction in the immersion school context? The research also explores pre-planned scaffolding versus interactional scaffolding, as well as the tensions and forces within the broader context that the teacher encounters while working with students in this bilingual educational environment. Classroom observations, teacher interviews, administration interviews, and artifacts were analyzed using methods borrowed from Grounded Theory.</p><p> Findings from this study highlight the characteristics of the Community of Practice created by the teacher in this classroom that include a focus upon encouragement, knowledge, organization, and literate habitus. Additionally, two visual models were created to present the data including: “Scaffolding Episodes in the Development of Biliteracy,” to illustrate the task-oriented support provided by the teacher, and “Centripetal versus Centrifugal Forces,” to present the forces and tensions that the teacher faced within the historical phases of the Spanish Language Immersion Program.</p><p>
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Francou-Desrochers, Maria-Alexandra. "Resituating Scarlatti in a nationalist context: Spanish identity in the «Goyescas» of Granados." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66645.
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Profound changes marked music in Spain towards the end of the nineteenth century. Casting aside Italian influences, which had governed many aspects of music in Spain up until then, Hispanic composers sought to redefine and regenerate the nation's musical identity. Taking as their model the so-called "Generation of '98," a literary movement that explored new ways of defining a "genuine" Spanishness, Spanish composers—chief among them Enrique Granados—took inspiration from pre-nineteenth-century musical figures, including, perhaps paradoxically, composers who came from outside the Iberian peninsula. This thesis demonstrates how the eighteenth-century Italian keyboardist-composer Domenico Scarlatti became an important symbol of "authentic" Spanish identity for fin-de-siècle composers in Spain. I show how Spanish composers claimed cultural ownership of Scarlatti and incorporated his keyboard idiom into their own works. I focus in particular on Granados' Goyescas: Los majos enamorados, a composition in which, I argue, Scarlatti's influence can be discerned (as yet no literature on this topic exists). I claim that Granados articulated a renewed conception of authentic Spanish identity through invoking Scarlatti in Goyescas.<br>De profonds changements marquèrent le nationalisme musical en Espagne au tournant du vingtième siècle. Mettant de côté l'influence italienne, qui avait gouverné plusieurs aspects de la vie musicale en Espagne, les compositeurs hispanophones cherchèrent à redéfinir et à régénérer l'identité musicale de la nation. Prenant comme modèle la génération de '98, (un cercle de jeunes auteurs en quête d'une nouvelle authenticité nationale), les compositeurs espagnols puisèrent leur inspiration dans le passé musical de la nation. Dans ce mémoire, je démontre que le claveciniste du dix-huitième siècle Domenico Scarlatti, malgré ses origines italiennes, devint un important symbole d'authenticité identitaire pour les compositeurs espagnols à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle. J'examine la manière par laquelle ces musiciens se sont approprié Scarlatti et ont incorporé son langage baroque dans leurs propres compostions. Je porte une attention particulière à Goyescas: Los majos enamorados, une œuvre d'Enrique Granados où l'on peut noter, selon moi, l'influence de Scarlatti. (Jusqu'à maintenant, aucune recherche n'a porté sur ce sujet). Je suggère qu'en invoquant Scarlatti, Granados souhaite articuler une conception renouvelée d'identité hispanique.
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Harrison, Stephanie Chantall. "Preservice Teachers Perceptions of Literature: A Study in a University Spanish Literature Class for Future Spanish Teachers." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7062.
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This qualitative study gave insight on the benefits that a university literature course for future Spanish teachers could contribute to preservice teachers as part of their preparation program. Nine university students participated in this study as they were the ones enrolled in this first-time offered university literature course for Spanish teachers. Data were collected from pre- and post-questionnaires, journals, and course observations. The findings suggested that the preservice teachers grew in pedagogical content knowledge, literary content, resources and strategies, and felt an overall sense of preparedness to use literary sources in their future classrooms
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Rhoades, William B. "Assessing early literacy development in Spanish speakers when Spanish is the language of instruction." Thesis, Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10070.
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Cruz, Nicole. "The influence of beliefs on people's perception of illness in the spanish golden age." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/540.
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Medicine is a field of science that is always changing and promoting new ideas and innovations. Throughout history, medicine has been an important factor in the lives of people around the world since the beginning of civilizations. This study focused on the literature of medicine as it relates to the Spanish Golden Age period. By looking at the history and critical studies in medicine during sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain as well as during the pre-colonial period in America, this thesis overviews the effects and influences in regards to health and illness in Spain and the Americas during the Spanish Golden Age era.<br>B.A.<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Humanities<br>Spanish
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Julbe-Delgado, Diana. "Spanish Spelling Errors of Emerging Bilingual Writers in Middle School." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1673.
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In spite of the significant growth in the Spanish-English bilingual population, there has not been sufficient research on cross-language effects, or how language transfer may affect important components of literacy, such as spelling. Many studies have focused on the influence of Spanish on the acquisition of English spelling skills; however, few studies have focused on how the acquisition of English influences Spanish spelling. The purpose of this investigation was to study the spelling errors of bilingual adolescents as they learn English.
A total of 20 bilingual Spanish-English students in grades 6 through 8 (ages 11 to 14 years) were selected from a larger mixed methods study (Danzak, 2009) not concerned with spelling. These students were enrolled in English as a Second Language (ESL) classes in a public middle school located on the west coast of Florida. The students completed four writing samples in each language (evenly divided between narrative and expository genres). All samples were analyzed using the Phonological Orthographic Morphological Assessment of Spelling-Spanish (POMAS-S), a linguistically-based analysis system that qualitatively describes Spanish spelling errors and is sensitive to effects of cross-language transfer.
Misspellings were extracted from the students' writing samples and were examined by looking at the effects of linguistic category, genre, and gender. Results of the three-way ANOVA revealed that the greatest number of errors occurred in the orthographic category, accounting for over 70% of the errors. Errors attributed to the other linguistic categories occurred less than 10% of the time each. There were no effects attributed to genre or gender.
The qualitative analysis revealed that the most common linguistic feature error was OAT (orthographic tonic accents) comprising 37% of the total number of errors followed by OLS (letter sound) errors, which comprised 11% of the total number of errors. All other phonological, orthographic, morphological, and phonological-orthographic linguistic feature patterns occurred with a frequency of 5% or less. Knowledge of the English language had a minimal, but obvious, influence on their spelling. These findings would suggest that Spanish-English bilingual adolescents predominantly made spelling errors that did not follow the orthographic rules of Spanish. Educational implications are presented.
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Woodward, Deena. "Paleo-Indian to Spanish Occupation around Choctawhatchee Bay, Northwest Florida, as Documented in a Private Artifact Collection." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4259.
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This project documents and analyzes a substantial private collection of artifacts from archaeological sites around Choctawhatchee Bay, northwest Florida. The goals are to determine what the materials can contribute to the archaeological record, how they enhance our knowledge of the people who lived there over the past 2000 years, and how this information can be used to expand or contradict models of prehistoric lifeways in this region. This is done by comparing artifact assemblages, looking at site distribution patterns, and using pXRF trace-element analysis to compare Late Archaic clay objects with those from elsewhere along the Gulf.
Examination of the assemblage and the results of the pXRF trace-element analysis show that both materials and finished products were imported into this region from as far away as Poverty Point, Louisiana, especially during Late Archaic times. In addition to the movement of artifacts, site distribution patterns around Choctawhatchee Bay show that people also moved into and away from the area during periods of low and high sea levels.
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Lowry, Carolyn S. "At what cost? : Spanish neutrality in the First World War." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003203.
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Bushong, Robert W. II. "The academic word list reorganized for Spanish-speaking English language learners." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4660.
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Published in TESOL Quarterly a decade ago, the Academic Word List (AWL) (Coxhead, 2000) has become increasingly influential in the field of TESOL. With more than 82% of the AWL comprised of words of Latin and Greek, much of this important list logically consists of English-Spanish cognates because Spanish originated from Latin. In order to serve Spanish-speaking English language learners (SSELLs) better, their teachers need to know which AWL words are cognates. Using published sources and linguistic analysis of the 570 items in the AWL, the research in this thesis has resulted in a newly reorganized AWL divided into four categories that are more useful for our Spanish-speaking English language learners as well as their instructors, curriculum designers, and materials writers: English-Spanish true cognates, partial cognates, false cognates, and non-cognates.<br>ID: 029050607; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2010.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-116).<br>M.A.<br>Masters<br>Department of Modern Languages and Literatures<br>Arts and Humanities
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Brea-Spahn, María R. "Spanish-Specific Patterns and Nonword Repetition Performance in English Language Learners." Scholar Commons, 2009. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1875.
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Nonword repetition tasks were originally devised to assess the efficiency of the phonological loop (Baddeley & Hitch, 1974), a component of the working memory system, where verbal information is temporarily stored and translated to support activities like phonological processing during early word-recognition (Snowling, 1981; Wagner et al., 2003), speech production (McCarthy & Warrington, 1984), and articulation (Watkins, Dronkers, & Vargha-Khadem, 2002; Yoss & Darley, 1974).
From a practical perspective, there is a significant need for a systematically-designed Spanish nonword repetition measure that is equivalent to currently-available English measures. For this study, a database of nonwords that considered phonotactic and phonological properties of Spanish was devised. In a preliminary study, Spanish-speaking adults provided wordlikeness judgments about a large set of candidate nonwords. A subset of the rated nonwords was used in the development of a Spanish nonword repetition measure. The aim of the main experiment was to explore the contributions of participant factors (age, gender, and vocabulary knowledge) and item factors (word length, stress pattern, and wordlikeness) to Spanish repetition performance in this group of Spanish speaking, English language learning children. From a theoretical perspective, this investigation allowed a first observation of how experience with listening to and producing Spanish words influences the acquisition of Spanish-specific phonological patterns.
A total of 68 children, ages four to six years with varying degrees of Spanish language knowledge participated in this study. Results revealed significant age and word length effects. However, stress pattern did not exert significant effects on repetition performance, which is not completely consistent with previous literature. That is, participants repeated nonwords from both the more frequent and the less frequent stress pattern with similar accuracy. Wordlikeness, a previously uninvestigated variable in nonword repetition was found to affect repetition accuracy. For all participants, nonwords rated as high in wordlikeness were more accurately repeated than were nonwords with low wordlikeness ratings. Findings of the study are discussed in terms of how they relate to working memory and usage-based models of phonological learning. Finally, the clinical relevance of nonword repetition in the assessment of coarse- and fine-grained mappings of phonological knowledge is suggested.
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Uhrig, Ashley. "A Comparison of Individual and Dyad Instruction for Spanish-Speaking Siblings." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1242405674.
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Hall, Alexandria C. (Alexandria Caitlin). "Between gods and men : analyzing the Aztec deification of the Spanish Conquistadores and reassessing its significance." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76571.
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Thesis (S.B. in History)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 2012.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-58).<br>Immediately following the Spanish Conquest of Mexico in 1521, accounts arose claiming the Aztecs believed the Spaniards to be gods. This tale of Spanish deification has sparked heated debate among scholars for centuries as they have been asking, "Did the Aztecs truly believe the Spaniards to be gods?" This question naturally results in two lines of argument, those who think the Aztecs did believe the Spaniards to be gods and those that do not. The scholars arguing for the Aztec deification of the Spaniards rely on known Aztec beliefs, the importance of time to the Aztecs, and the historical works that clearly state the Aztecs though the Spaniards to be divine. The scholars against this argument instead argue the Spaniards created this account of European apotheosis, based on historical precedents and strikingly similar accounts of European apotheosis after the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. Both of these arguments are not, however, free of criticism, revealing the inability to ever answer this question decisively. Instead, this intriguing narrative of the conquest should be reassessed using new questions that could provide new insight on the relations of Spaniards and their conquered subjects, on cultural clashes more generally, and on historical work and interests over time.<br>by Alexandria C. Hall.<br>S.B.in History
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Adams, Nathan Thomas. "Domestic vs. Foreign Immersion Experiences: Listening Comprehension of Multiple Dialects in Spanish." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8724.
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Study abroad has been shown to improve students' linguistic and cultural competence, but students who gain their fluency abroad may struggle to adapt to the plethora of regional dialects they encounter in their studies and interactions after they've returned from their study abroad. The researchers of this study posited that learning Spanish in a domestic immersion context may improve a student's flexibility or tolerance for dialectal variation in regard to listening comprehension. Using a detailed survey and multi-dialectal listening assessment, the researchers examined the degree to which Spanish language learners, in this case 183 missionaries, were exposed to a variety of dialects, whether this exposure varied depending on region of study, and whether it affected their ability to comprehend a variety of accents. Significantly higher levels of variation were found in Spain, the U.S., and Canada, possibly due to the higher levels of Hispanic immigration to these regions. A comparison of Spain, the region with the highest average test score, and Mexico, the region with the lowest average test score, showed high practical significance (d=.8), suggesting that high levels of linguistic variation in the region of study may improve listening comprehension of multiple dialects. Pearson correlations between exposure to variation and listening test score were also positive. The researchers believe this is grounds for increased support of immersion programs both domestic and abroad, especially to areas such as Spain with high levels of linguistic diversity.
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Mick, Graciela. "The role of revision in english-spanish software localization." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/378650.
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La tasca principal d'aquest projecte d'investigació empírica és explorar el procés de revisió en la traducció de la interfície de tres pogramas de programari desenvolupats per Siemens PLM Software Inc Centrarem la nostra atenció especialment en el paper dels revisors locals de l'idioma espanyol com una de els actors principals de les versions localitzades. L'equip format per traductors de plantilla i de revisors locals s'ha convertit en un tema d'interès per als investigadors, els professors de llengua i els professionals de la traducció. La revisió de la traducció és cada vegada més rellevant en l'ambient de la localització de programari. Les principals preguntes de recerca en aquest projecte són: La versió en espanyol és una fidel traducció del text escrit en anglès? Per què alguns clients mexicans prefereixen utilitzar les aplicacions de programari en idioma anglès? Per avaluar si la traducció i la funcionalitat de la interfície de les tres aplicacions eren apropiades, es va realitzar una extensa anàlisi lingüístic de seixanta segments de text extrets de les tres aplicacions traduïdes i revisades per traductors interns i revisors locals, respectivament. En segon lloc, un selecte grup de clients i usuaris de parla hispana de les aplicacions de Siemens completi un qüestionari d'avaluació electrònica. I per entendre millor les preferències d'idioma dels clients mexicans, es va realitzar una anàlisi lingüístic d'una sèrie d'informes de problemes presentats pels usuaris de les aplicacions durant sis mesos. L'anàlisi de les dades indica que els errors de traducció i el llenguatge es van corregir durant l'etapa de revisió. Les proves dels instruments de l'enquesta suggereix que la versió localitzada de la interfície d'usuari es llegeix amb fluïdesa i naturalitat. No obstant això, es va trobar que la principal diferència estadística entre la font i el text de destinació en el nombre dels errors funcionals. Per aquesta raó, alguns usuaris de parla hispana en realitat canviar a la versió en anglès dels productes de programari. I, finalment, l'evidència dels informes de problemes suggereix que el nombre d'Informe de problemes és baix durant el període de temps determinat i que no hi ha cap crítica per qüestions funcionals.<br>La tarea principal de este proyecto de investigación empírica es explorar el proceso de revisión en la traducción de la interfaz de tres pogramas de software desarrollados por Siemens PLM Software Inc. Centraremos nuestra atención en el papel de los revisores locales del idioma español como una de los actores principales de las versiones localizadas. El equipo formado por traductores de plantilla y de revisores locales se ha convertido en un tema de interés para los investigadores, los profesores de idioma y los profesionales de la traducción. La revisión de la traducción es cada vez más relevante en el ambiente de la localización de software. Las principales preguntas de investigación: ¿La versión en español es una fiel traducción del texto escrito en inglés? ¿Por qué algunos clientes mexicanos prefieren utilizar las aplicaciones de software en idioma inglés? Para evaluar si la traducción y la funcionalidad de la interfaz de las tres aplicaciones eran apropiadas, se realizó un extenso análisis linguístico de sesenta segmentos de texto extraídos de las tres aplicaciones traducidas y revisadas por traductores internos y revisores locales, respectivamente. En segundo lugar, un selecto grupo de clientes y usuarios de habla hispana de las aplicaciones completó un cuestionario electrónico. Y se realizó un análisis linguístico de una serie de informes de problemas presentados por los usuarios de las aplicaciones durante seis meses. El análisis demuestra que los errores de traducción y el lenguaje se corrigieron durante la etapa de revisión. Los resultados de la encuesta sugieren que la versión localizada de la interfaz se lee fluida y naturalmente. Sin embargo, se determinó que la principal diferencia estadística entre el texto de partida y el texto de llegada es el número de errores funcionales. Por esta razón, algunos usuarios de habla hispana prefieren utilizar la versión en inglés de los productos de software. Y, finalmente, el análisis de los informes de problemas linguísticos indica que el número fue bajo durante el periodo de tiempo determinado y que no hubo ninguna crítica por cuestiones funcionales.<br>The main task of this empirical research project is to explore the Spanish translation revision/review process of three software solutions developed by Siemens PLM Software Inc. We will focus our attention especially on the role of Spanish in-country reviewers or revisers as one of the main agents for localized output. The in-house translator and in-country reviewer team is emerging as a concept of interest to researchers, l and translation practitioners. Translation revision efforts are becoming increasingly more relevant in a software localization scenario. The main research questions in this project are: Does the Spanish version communicate what the English does? Why do some Mexican customers prefer to use the English-language software applications? To evaluate the language appropriateness and functionality of the user interface of the PLM software products in the Spanish-localized versions, we conducted a detailed language evaluation of sixty UI segments translated and revised by in-house translators and in-country reviewers respectively. The data analysis indicates that translation and language errors were corrected during the revision stage. Furthermore, an electronic assessment questionnaire was completed by a select group of Siemens PLM software Spanish-speaking customers. The evidence from the survey instruments suggests that the localized version of the user interface reads fluently and naturally. However, the main statistical difference between the source and the target text was found in the number of functional errors. For this reason, some Spanish-speaking end-users actually switch to the English version of the software solutions. And finally, to further understand the Mexican customers’ language preference, we collected and analyzed a number of problem reports submitted by our application users during a six-month period. The evidence from the problem reports suggests that the number of PRs is low for that particular time frame and that there is no indication of any functional issues. The research findings should have important implications for the practice of software translation revision and for raising awareness that localization is a team effort involving more players than just translators and revisers.
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del, Barco Dolores Villarreal. "First language instruction and second language acquisition among Spanish speaking high school students: A case study." Scholarly Commons, 1988. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3364.
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This case-study had as its principal focus the applicability of James Cummins' theory of developmental interdependence in language acquisition to secondary age students. This theory postulates that, for younger children, the development and strengthening of the first language can ultimately lead to a more rapid and efficient acquisition of the second. The study set out to test the hypothesis that secondary age Limited English Proficient (LEP) students who receive Primary Language Arts instruction demonstrate higher levels of English acquisition than do comparable students who do not receive this instruction. The primary language of the students was Spanish. A quasi-experimental research design was used to compare the effect of different treatments on two relatively equal groups of Hispanic LEP students in a single urban high school over a five year period. Achievement and completion of high school work were examined statistically for students enrolled in English as a Second Language and Espanol Para Hispanos (Spanish for Spanish-Speakers) classes during the course of the study. Hispanic LEP students in neither treatment group and all other Hispanic students in attendance at the school during the study made up additional comparison groups. Results of achievement tests, while not completely conclusive, suggest a qualified affirmative of the hypothesis. Students in the Espanol Para Hispanos (Spanish for Spanish-Speakers) groups demonstrated a statistically significant higher level of achievement in English Reading and Language Arts than did the other LEP groups in Tenth grade. Achievement in English in Eleventh and Twelfth grades, although substantial, was not as definitive. There was also corroboration for Cummins' views on "Student Empowerment". Correlations of Participation in Treatment Groups with Completion of Studies showed that a statistically significant percentage of students who received instruction in the development of their primary language (Spanish) graduated from high school. The Tenth grade was found to be the most crucial year for treatment to be effective, both for achievement and for completion of studies.
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Basso, Ann McCauley. "Bel-Imperia: The (Early) Modern Woman in Thomas Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy." Scholar Commons, 2006. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3776.
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At the heart of Thomas Kyd's revenge tragedy The Spanish Tragedy lies an arranged marriage around which all of the other action revolves. Bel-Imperia of Spain has been betrothed against her will to Prince Balthazar of Portugal, but she is no ordinary woman, and she has plans of her own. Bel-Imperia's unwillingness to participate in the arranged marriage is indicative of the rise of the companionate marriage; it represents a rejection of the arranged marriage that dominated upper class society in earlier years.
This study seeks to throw light upon early modern attitudes towards marriage, focusing particularly on the arranged marriage, the companionate marriage, and the state marriage. Additionally, it examines the role of woman as peace-weaver, a practice that dates back as far as the Beowulf manuscript. Using historical as well as literary sources to delineate these forms, I apply this information to a study of the play itself, with an emphasis on its performative value. Since the proposed marriage dictates all of the action of the play, an analysis of the bartered bride, Bel-Imperia, is of particular importance. This essay examines her character in depth as well as her relationships with Andrea and Horatio, who love her; with Lorenzo, the King, and her father, who seek to exploit her; and with Hieronimo, who becomes her partner in revenge. Additionally, I contrast her with Isabella, one of only two other female characters in the play and conclude by delineating how my analysis would affect a performance of the play and by "directing" a hypothetical interpretation of The Spanish Tragedy.
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Smith, Kaitlan. "Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Narratives on the 1585 Relación Geográfica Map of Santiago Atitlán." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/428.
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The 1585 Relación Geográfica Map of Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala gives scholars a rare glimpse of sixteenth- century southern Guatemala. The map displays the use of Spanish, Nahua, and Maya perspectives. The coexistence of indigenous Nahua versus Spanish or European iconographies and narratives is a theme constantly explored in the studies of the Relaciones Geográficas maps. However, the opposition of two different indigenous narratives and iconographies, as well as Spanish, is not. This project examines the convergences and conflicts among these narratives and iconographies as evidenced on the map and in the accompanying text. The individual discussion of each narrative is followed by a critical discussion to provide theoretical and authorial contexts for the map. In effect, this study complicates the view of sixteenth-century Mesoamerican Relaciones Geográficas maps.
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Bonilla, Ana Maria. "A comparative analysis of comprehension questions in three California state-adopted Spanish and English basal readers." Scholarly Commons, 1988. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3205.
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The primary purpose of this study was to determine if there was a variation in the number of questions within a given taxonomy level between parallel Spanish and English basal readers at primary grade levels. A secondary purpose was to determine if questions in parallel Spanish and English series, that extended to fourth grade, facilitated the transition from the Spanish to the English reader. Specifically, the tasks to be accomplished in the study were: (1) to classify reading questions contained in California state-adopted parallel Spanish and English basal readers utilizing Barrett's Taxonomy, (2) to determine the number of questions each level of the taxonomy contained, (3) to determine if the number of questions within each level of the taxonomy differed by reading series among grade levels and between languages, and (4) to ascertain the readability level of each reader utilized in this study. Three California state-adopted parallel Spanish and English basal series were selected. A total of 114 lesson plans: fifty-four from the Spanish series and sixty from the English series, were selected. A total of 5,797 reading comprehension questions were classified according to the four major divisions of the Barrett Taxonomy. Chi Square values revealed that differences do exist on the number of questions assigned to each taxonomy level among the three basal series in both languages. Chi Square values also revealed that differences do exist on the number of questions assigned to each taxonomy level between the basal series at the first, second, and third grade level. At all grade levels, and in both languages, literal level questions were highest in frequency and percentage, followed by inference, evaluation, and appreciation level questions respectively. These findings seem to indicate that there is a tendency among basal readers, to emphasize questions which require literal comprehension more than critical interpretation. Differences were also found in the readability level between the Spanish and English text at each grade level. All readers, with the exception of the first grade English readers, were above the stated reading level and in most cases the readability level of the Spanish readers was higher than that of the English readers.
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Araldi, Caitlin M. "A qualitative analysis of perspectives educational implications in the Spanish bilingual programs in primary education in the Central Florida region." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/4.
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The proposed goal of this research was to take the data gathered and implement it in analyzing the potential reformation of programs in need of evaluation, assessing the potential benefits of further development in the field of bilingual education in the United States as a nation. Using data collected in the Central Florida region as a microcosmic example of how existing programs function in the modern elementary educational system, the purpose of this study was to demonstrate through the conduction of interviews with local teachers and currently available research that a more suitable standard for bilingual education is both necessary and valuable for our school systems and for the future of our students as productive and capable adults. As a survey of the current state of bilingual education in Central Florida elementary schools, this research sought to establish a clearer panoramic view of the ways in which our system is perceived as observed directly through those participating and facilitating it firsthand in local classrooms. Classroom observations and data gathered from educational professionals within the participating elementary school system, inclusive solely of those implementing a bilingual program as a method of assimilation for a high population of Spanish-speaking students transitioning to a targeted language of English, were the primary basis of this research, supplemented by existing psychological and educational research in the field of language acquisition and development in young children. Results have suggested that current methods of bilingual instruction are based upon the integrated standards of three existing models: transitional bilingual education, immersion, and English as a Second Language.; The three appeared to be functioning in such a way that does not fully allow for a wide range of learning needs to be met, and that furthermore does not fully support a directed initiative toward a future in consistently dynamic and progressive research in the bilingual field, such that a standardized system flexible enough to encourage the needs of a diverse population might be realized. With further standardization and research, bilingual education might itself become a standard of American education for all students, native and non-native.<br>ID: 030645661; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for honors in the major in Modern Languages and Literatures.; Adviser: Martha Garcia.; Thesis (B.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 38-39).<br>B.A.<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Humanities<br>Modern Languages and Literatures
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Arnold, Erik William. "Using Eye Tracking to Examine Working Memory and Verbal Feature Processing in Spanish." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7472.
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Second language acquisition (SLA) has been a dominant field in linguistics research over the past several decades. In this field, researchers have investigated what makes learning the grammar of a second language difficult and they have identified many factors that may contribute to this difficulty, including agreement processing. In linguistic terms, agreement refers to the necessary covariation of grammatical features between two of more syntactic constituents. In prior years of agreement processing research, some authors examined how native speakers process varying grammatical features (e.g. number and gender) in agreement relations. In recent years, however, they have turned towards L2 learners and have investigated whether learners can attain native-like levels of processing agreement in a second language.While some researchers have investigated differences between learners and native speakers, others have examined the effect of individual differences on agreement processing. Of particular interest to this thesis is working memory capacity (WMC) and its effect during the different processing stages of agreement. Lastly, features expressed through agreement may affect individuals' processing behavior. Different features (e.g. person, number, gender) are regularly expressed in agreement relations by different manifestations of exponence. Many authors have investigated the effect different features have on processing agreement when those features are expressed by separative exponence. Fewer have examined the effect of cumulative exponence on agreement processing.Eye tracking is a useful psycholinguistic tool to investigate these questions. Using eye tracking, I examine English learners of Spanish and their eye behavior as they processed Spanish verbal agreement and investigate whether they demonstrate sensitivity similar to native Spanish speakers while processing verbal agreement errors. I investigate if individuals demonstrate similar sensitivity when processing three different types of verbal agreement errors—number, person, and tense. Additionally, I examine whether individuals' sensitivity to agreement errors is affected by working memory capacity. Using a linear mixed effects model, I analyze the eye tracking data and share the results of the analyses and their implications for L2 research in agreement processing.
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Serrano, Rubio Milla. "Kommunikationsfokus i spanskundervisningen." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-34492.
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Studiens syfte är att få en bättre förståelse kring klassrumsaktiviteter som skapar förutsättningar som bidrar till utvecklingen av kommunikativa förmågor i undervisningen av moderna språk på högstadiet. Studiens syfte är härmed att kunna hjälpa blivande och undervisande lärare i moderna språk att identifiera och tillämpa didaktiska metoder som främjar kommunikativa förmågor. Nations Four Strands Hypothesis (1996) och Longs(1996) interaktionsteori är teoretiska ramverk som står i fokus av denna studie. Tidigare forskning som redovisas i denna studie visar att kommunikationsbaserad undervisning kan vara fördelaktig för elevernas kunskapsutveckling och i synnerhet utvecklingen av kommunikativa förmågor. För att analysera studiens frågeställningar, genomförs kvalitativa klassrumsobservationer. Materialet analyserades på ett kvalitativt och beskrivande sätt, samt kompletterades med kvantifieringen av tidsuppdelningen av olika klassrumsaktiviteter. Resultatet analyserades utifrån Nations (1996) och Longs (1996) teorier och visade att en av lärarna tillämpar Nations (1996) and Longs teorier i sina undervisningsmetoder till en viss utsträckning, samt integrerar övningar och aktiviteter som främjar kommunikation och interaktion. Studiens resultat visar vilka klassrumsaktiviteter verkar att skapa fördelaktiga förutsättningar som utvecklar kommunikativa förmågor.
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Sanchez, Giselle. "Prediction of English and Spanish Early Literacy Skills of English Language Learners in the Primary Grades." Scholar Commons, 2007. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3893.
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This study explored how language, emergent literacy, and reading skills in both English and Spanish develop with a group of English language learners (ELLs) (n = 267). Specifically, the researcher investigated what early language and literacy skills were the most important predictors of reading abilities as indicated by the Book Task in prekindergarten through first grade. Early language and literacy skills were assessed utilizing subtest from the Woodcock Language Proficiency Batter - Revised, the Woodcock Language Proficiency Battery - Revised - Spanish Form and the Phonological Awareness Task. Participants came from households where Spanish was one of the languages spoken. Multiple linear regression and path analyses were utilized to reveal the importance of each predictor variable during each grade level. Results indicated that vocabulary, listening comprehension, letter-word recognition, and phonological awareness are the most important predictors throughout the grade levels. These results are discussed in terms of their potential implications for research and practice with ELLs.
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Guerrero, Lourdes R. "Project SOL shining light on teaching secondary level, Spanish-Dominant English learners using Colegio de Bachilleres content /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1970030551&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Sandholtz, Carrie Dalton. ""Making it Real": The Effect of Hispanic Peer Tutors on High School Spanish Learners." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8687.
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This mixed methods study investigated the effects of a pilot peer-tutoring program for high school students between L1 Spanish-speaking tutors and Spanish second language (L2) tutees during Fall Semester 2018 (16 weeks). The purpose of this research was to explore the impact the peer-tutoring program had on the language acquisition, motivation to learn, intercultural sensitivity, and number of Spanish-speaking friendships of the L2 Spanish learners. The study consisted of a matched-group comparison and a qualitative exploration of reflective surveys completed by the participants in the pilot program. The experimental group (n=32) received a treatment of 20 minutes of peer tutoring each class period and the control group (n=41) received no treatment. Results of language acquisition data suggested that, though not statistically significant (p=0.119), the experimental group showed language acquisition gains that are noteworthy. The experimental group showed a 60% greater increase in the oral proficiency score over the control group in a pre-test/post-test analysis of an identical oral proficiency test. Results from the motivation data showed a marked decrease in motivation of the experimental group as compared to the control group. Results from the intercultural sensitivity assessment showed a statistically significantly higher end score on the behavioral scale and a higher end score on the attitude scale of the experimental group vs. the control group. Results from the quantitative data indicating pre and post number of Spanish-speaking friends showed no increase in number of Spanish speaking friends for the experimental group vs. the control group. However, qualitative data showed that 25% of the experimental group reported making a new Spanish-speaking friend after the treatment. Future research needs to consider how peer tutoring as compared to reciprocal peer tutoring among L2 learners with higher proficiency may impact these results.
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King, Brandon J. "Exploring Spanish Heritage Language Learning and Task Design for Virtual Worlds." Scholar Commons, 2018. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7180.
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In this exploratory case study, I take a constant comparative methods type approach to exploring a shift in second language acquisition (SLA) away from approaches built on the assumption that language participants in the U.S. are monolingual English speakers (Block, 2003; Ortega, 2009, 2013; Thompson, 2013; Valdés, 2005), with little initial investment in the language or its culture (Rivera-Mills, 2012; Valdés, Fishman, Chavéz, & Pérez, 2006). This bias has entrenched a monolingual speaker baseline for statistical analysis within many experimental designs (Block, 2003; Ortega, 2009, 2013; Thompson, 2013; Valdés, 2005). Further, I redress this methodological bias by applying sociocultural theoretical (SCT) (Vygotsky, 1986) approaches to investigating Spanish heritage language learners (SHLLs). Heritage Language Acquisition (HLA) has an established tradition of situating its research within socio-cultural context when considering language-learning phenomena, laying groundwork for relating these contextual factors to the issues in delivering pedagogically sound HL instruction.
Ducar (2008) identifies a specific gap in HLA literature, where HLL voices are underrepresented and Valdés et al. (2006) further highlights the need for the development of resources and strategies for accommodating HLLs specifically. I attempt to fill these gaps under SCT by using qualitative methods that incorporate HLL voices into the broader HLA discussion (Ducar, 2008). I take a bottom up approach to resource and task design targeted to serve Spanish heritage language learners (SHLLs) in the U.S. by first surveying the population’s backgrounds and motivations at universities that serve an over 20% student body of Hispanic/latin@ students. Next, I propose a supplemental resource whose agile design is able to adapt to the unique needs of these SHLLs. Further, I investigate in what ways one technological resource, the virtual world Second Life (SL), may be adopted to meet Spanish HLL (SHLL) needs. In this second part, I analyze how one SHLL, who I will refer to as David, used this SL resource. I was guided in this analysis by asking: “In what ways does differentiating HL instruction with SL afford identity mediation through symbolic artifacts within SL?” and “In what ways can task design and extension activities be adapted to meet specific SHLLs’ needs without overly constraining their creative language use or the open format of SL?”.
I do this by first taking a snap shot via anonymous survey of 47 SHLLs across the U.S., attending 133 universities with a high level of undergraduate latin@/Hispanic students (20% or higher) that offer concentrations in Spanish (see http://www.collegedata.com). The respondents needed to be currently enrolled in a course advancing them beyond the Novice High level of proficiency as defined by ACFTL (2012). My analysis and discussion of these responses is organized around trends illuminated with descriptive statistics in their backgrounds and then motivations. Finally, I draw on open ended responses to create a qualitative analysis and present vignettes that highlight SHLL voices, while exemplifying trends found through word count analysis and axial coding of the data. Next, I explore the case of a single SHLL, reporting a familial connection to the language and studying intermediate Spanish at a university in the U.S, and his experience with SL.
My analysis of David’s case draws on data from a pre-survey that was designed to elicit data on his background, align discussion with established criteria for matching HLL backgrounds to learning needs, and elicit his emic perspective about using SL to study his HL. Additionally, the community of inquiry framework (COI) (Arbaugh, Cleveland-Innes, Diaz, Garrison, Ice, Richardson, & Swan, 2008) guided me in meticulously designing SL tasks that elicited data about David’s engagement with the SL environment, its affordances, and the HL. These also provided insights into what ways that he chose to expand or deepen his command of the HL. I coded these data with Dedoose, a qualitative research tool, using a three-stage coding process similar to axial coding, building code trees and constantly relating themes to one another until saturated thematic categories emerge.
I build a critical discussion of what this coding process reveals in relation to the case-study’s research focuses above, the guiding research questions, and relate the resulting findings to possible implications for teaching Spanish to SHLLs in the U.S., instructional design for this population within specific intuitional constraints, and for task design that leverages specific affordances that SL may offer SHLLs.
In Part I, I present a rationale for introducing two new research questions to help guide my investigation of the survey of 47 SHLLs: “In what ways do SHLL motivations for studying their HL differ and how might these motivations be best accommodated through instructional design?” and “In what ways do SHLL backgrounds differ and influence their objectives for studying their HL?”. I then used these research questions to analyze these data and weave a discussion. At the beginning of each stage of this analysis I explain the methodology behind the analysis and the generation of any figures or tables that helped me in interpreting the data and answering the research questions. Ultimately, I create vignettes to highlight SHLL voices (Ducar, 2008) and weave a narrative grounded in the major trends and themes sown together throughout the chapter.
In Part II, I present rationale for modifying my original three research questions, removing the second one completely due to lack of data: “In what ways do SHLL backgrounds differ and influence their objectives for studying their HL?” and “In what ways do SHLL motivations for studying their HL differ and how might these motivations be best accommodated through instructional design?”. I interweave my exploratory analysis and discussion about David’s background and motivations with that of the previous chapter to related David’s case to the larger data set. Further, I use the COI framework (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2000, 2001) and Dörnyei’s (1994, 2005, 2009, 2014) work on motivation to analyze my instructional design in relation to David’s experience within the SL Lab. I analyze David’s motivational attractor states from a qualitative perspective as he progressed through to completion of the lab and compare motivational factors between David and pilot study participants. Based on these findings I offer some recommendations for both revising the proposed resource’s design and for the design of other resources that might capitalize on what I have learned during the course of this investigation.
During the course of these investigative efforts I also encountered some challenges and surprising rewards. I reserve a section of this study to discuss some of these challenges, such as institutional barriers, demands on student time, strains on student motivation, and instructional design adaptations that frequently failed to address these challenges despite being research supported approaches. I correspondingly recount how these challenges coupled with moments of collegial collaboration to help both myself as a researcher and the project to grow, persevere, and adapt during the long course of the investigation. It is my sincere hope that sharing this personal perspective provides greater context to the study and insight for other researchers that would take on similar research endeavors.
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Willis, Andrew. "Violent exchanges : genre, national cinemas and the politics of popular films : case studies in Spanish horror and American martial arts cinema." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13908/.
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This thesis argues that in order to understand the way in which films work one has to place them into a variety of contexts. As well as those of production, these include the historical and culturally specific moments of their creation and consumption. In order to explore how these contexts impact upon the textual construction of individual and groups of films, and our potential understanding of them, this study offers two contrasting case studies of critically neglected areas: Spanish horror cinema since the late-1960s; and US martial arts films since the late 1980s. The first places a range of horror films into very particular historical moments: the Spain of the Franco regime; the transition to democracy in the late 1970s and early 1980s; and the contemporary, increasingly trans-national, Spanish film industry. Each chapter in this section looks in detail at how the shifts and changes in Spanish society, the critical reception of cinema, and production trends, has impacted upon the texts that have appeared on increasingly international screens. The second case study considers the shifts and changes in the production of US martial arts films. It discusses the problem of defining an area of filmmaking that is more commonly associated with a different filmmaking tradition, in a different national cinema. Each chapter here investigates the ways in which 'martial arts movies' operate in strikingly different production contexts. In particular, it contrasts films made within the US mainstream or Hollywood cinema, and the exploitation world that functions on its fringes. Finally, these case studies suggest that a fuller understanding of these works can only be achieved by utilising a number of approaches, both textual and contextual; creating an approach which Douglas Kellner has described as 'multiperspectival'.
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Carrasco, Cecilia. "The development of an assessment instrument measuring the Spanish proficiency of first grade students in a bilingual bicultural language arts program." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1985. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/319.
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Juan, Checa José Javier. "A contrastive study of the EFL vowel system in native Spanish, French, German and Russian learners." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671141.
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This thesis focuses on the phonetic difficulties that learners of English as a foreign language will
encounter. This research wants tó propose a new point of view; a different and wider angle on how
to approach this issue. Instead of comparing only one or two languages to English, it will compare
4 (Spanish, French, German and Russian) with similar or different characteristics based on vowel
system and isochrony. The phonetic mistakes will then be analyzed through spectrography, which
could help us better understand the nature of the problem.<br>Esta tesis se centra en las dificultades fonéticas con las que los estudiantes de inglés como lengua extranjera se toparán. Esta investigación quiere proponer un nuevo punto de vista; un ángulo diferente y más amplio en cómo enfocar este tema. En lugar de compara únicamente una o dos lenguas con el inglés, comparará 4 (español, francés, alemán y ruso) con características similares o diferentes basadas en el sistema vocálico y la isocronía. Los errores fonéticos serán analizados a través de a espectrografía, que podría ayudarnos a comprender mejor la naturaleza del problema.
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Smalley, Judith Ellen. "The differential predictive validity of the Spanish and English versions of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test." Scholarly Commons, 1995. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2797.
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The purpose of this study was to determine the predictive validity of the Spanish and English versions of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test for entering limited English proficient (LEP) Spanish and monolingual English kindergarten students. The criterion was reading achievement as measured by the Total Reading subtest of the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) and the Spanish Assessment of Basic Education (SABE). In addition, percentage of instructional time in Spanish was examined as a variable which may combine with the vocabulary scores to predict achievement for the Spanish speaking students. Selected for the study were 355 monolingual English speaking and 208 monolingual Spanish-speaking kindergarten students from a single district in central California. The LEP students included were those who scored a "one," no English, on the Bilingual Syntax Measure (BSM) upon entering kindergarten. Students included in the study were selected over 3 school years and 25 kindergarten teachers. Ninety percent of the district's students were on free or reduced cost lunch. The results of this study indicate there is a statistically significant relationship between entering kindergarten students' vocabulary scores and end of the first grade reading achievement but the vocabulary scores differentially predict achievement for the Spanish and English students. English speaking students scored significantly higher in reading achievement than Spanish-speaking students. The amount of time spent instructing in Spanish during the first grade combines with the students' language and vocabulary scores for a greater increment in the prediction of reading achievement. LEP Spanish-speaking students instructed more than 75% of the time in Spanish at the first grade level scored significantly higher in reading achievement than those instructed less than 75% of the time.
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Verde, Erica. "Investigating Miami English-Spanish Bilinguals' Treatment of English Deictic Verbs of Motion." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1229.
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This investigation focused on the treatment of English deictic verbs of motion by Spanish-English bilinguals in Miami. Although English and Spanish share significant overlap of the spatial deixis system, they diverge in important aspects. It is not known how these verbs are processed by bilinguals. Thus, this study examined Spanish-English bilinguals’ interpretation of the verbs come, go, bring, and take in English.
Forty-five monolingual English speakers and Spanish-English bilinguals participated. Participants were asked to watch video clips depicting motion events and to judge the acceptability of accompanying narrations spoken by the actors in the videos.
Analyses showed that, in general, monolinguals and bilinguals patterned similarly across the deictic verbs come, bring, go and take. However, they did differ in relation to acceptability of word order for verbal objects. Also, bring was highly accepted by all language groups across all goal paths, possibly suggesting an innovation in its use.
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Cresswell, Angela. "Culture Learning in Spanish Companion Book Websites: An Analysis of Tasks." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002733.
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Norwood, Annette L. "The acquisition of Spanish through videoconferencing and video-based lessons by individual fifth-graders." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001530.
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Fitzpatrick, Patricia A. "Inmanencia mística en la obra de Federico García Lorca." FIU Digital Commons, 2005. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3335.
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The purpose of this dissertation was to analyze the works of Federico Garcia Lorca within the mystic context that dominates their very genesis. The problematic definition of mysticism was explored lest it be confused with traditional mysticism, which implies union with the divine. The historiography of literature speaks of the Mystic Genre, yet it does not address the mystic mode of artistic creation due to its inability to adhere to rational measure. This mode of conception was explored through Lorca’s poetic discourse: ‘Lorquian mysticism’ is the result of the poet’s cultivation of an innate spiritual potential enhanced by external influences and technical mastery.
There is visible influence of Fray Luis of Leon in Lorca’s early Libro de poemas and El maleficio de la mariposa, as well as of Saint John of the Cross in the later Divan del Tamarit, Sonetos de amor and Yerma. However, definitive echoes of poets from theSufi and other Eastern mystic traditions were also illustrated in these late works. A persistent longing to elide the physical condition, the greatest obstacle of the transcendental quest, is the essence of Lorca’s poetic voice.
The object of this analysis was Lorca’s language, which reaches levels removed from conventional thought. His dazzling metaphors and his particular use of symbols and of paradox compare equitably with those of great mystic poets. Like them, Lorca was faced with the same limitations of language to describe an ineffable experience; he embraced what Octavio Paz describes as ‘sacred language’: there is a linguistic frugality as well as an ambiguity in Lorca’s poetic art that result from his realization of super- cognitive states. Yet such an interpretation is rejected by the rationalist approach, invoking the age-old debate between faith and reason and signaling the application of psychoanalytical theory. This limited approach was disputed on the basis of reader- response theory. Lorca was truly an eclectic and a modification of the conventional reader’s preestablished horizon of expectations is essential in order to seal the gaps in his late works. This innovative perspective placed Lorca within the framework of a new mysticism in the modem world.
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Curtis, Wesley. "The Effects of Processing Instruction on Chinese Learners' Acquisition of Spanish Copulae." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5932.
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Processing instruction (PI) is a language teaching technique based upon the model of input processing developed by VanPatten (1993, 1996, 2002, 2004). The present study investigated the effects of PI as well as two other experimental conditions (traditional instruction and control) on the acquisition of the Spanish copulae ser and estar by 66 Chinese university students enrolled in a blended (partially presential and partially online) fourth-semester language course. The PI treatment condition included non-paradigmatic grammar explanations, processing strategies designed to help learners avoid commiting errors they may be predisposed to make, and structured input activities which eliminate redundant features of language that may make difficult the establishment of form-meaning connections. The traditional instruction (TI) treatment condition included paradigmatic explanations of grammar as well as production-based activities and exercises. Participants assigned to the control condition did not receive any instruction during the course of the study.
The results of an experiment comparing the effects of each treatment condition on learners' scores on the Knowledge Test of Spanish Copulae, a measurement instrument designed for this study, found PI to be superior to TI at the immediate posttest level for tasks of interpretation and production. However, mean difference scores for the PI group were not significant when compared to those of the control group. Moreover, the learning gains exhibited by the PI group at immediate posttest were not durative, as they were not significant at the delayed posttest.
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Terantino, Joseph M. "Transformational Processes and Learner Outcomes for Online Learning: An Activity Theory Case Study of Spanish Students." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002822.
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Delp, Lindsay R. "La Guerra Civil Española: Un Estudio de La Literatura Como Un Mecanismo de Recuperar La Memoria Colectiva." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/60.
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Esta tesis es una exploración de la literatura como un mecanismo de recuperar la memoria colectiva de España después de la Guerra Civil. Los textos de Duelo en El Paraíso por Juan Goytisolo, El cuarto de atrás por Carmen Martín Gaite, Soldados de Salamina de Javier Cercas, y Los girasoles ciegos de Alberto Méndez se utilizan como ejemplos de la literatura de la posguerra que se tratan del tema de la memoria como parte faltante de la sociedad de hoy. El análisis de estos cuatro textos muestra las maneras diferentes en que la literatura puede servir como manera de ganar acceso al pasado.
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Drozd, Olena. "Sonority and its role in the acquisition of complex coda clusters by Spanish speakers learning English as a second language." FIU Digital Commons, 2003. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3633.
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This thesis looked at the concept of sonority and its influence in the acquisition of complex coda consonant clusters by ESL Spanish speakers. An experiment was performed to test the relationship between the sonority values of the segments of final complex clusters and the rate of errors. The goal of this thesis was to test the hypothesis that the Sonority Sequencing Principle was a powerful linguistic constraint that affected the acquisition of L2 phonology. The findings confirmed the idea that sonority played a crucial role in the phonological acquisition of L2 learners. Subjects reduced the least sonorant segment of the final cluster in order to achieve the minimal sonority descent. The choice of the segment couId not be a tbuted to possible Li interference since Spanish did not license complex codas and any final obstruents except /s/. The minimal sonority distance factor effected the rate of e ors. Subjects produced more errors in clusters where the sonority distance between their segments was small (e.g., one, two, and three).
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Apro, Flavio. "Folias de Espanha: o eterno retorno." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27157/tde-27102010-142724/.
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Esta tese focaliza a trajetória do tema musical Folias de Espanha, que constitui um dos mais notáveis fenômenos na musicologia devido à sua permanente recorrência na História da Música. Nosso objetivo foi ampliar o escopo interdisciplinar de estudo e de reflexão musicológica através da compreensão da utilização do tema na História da Música e sua historiografia, a fim de enriquecer o horizonte de nossa prática acadêmica. A Folias de Espanha é uma melodia simples e de caráter enigmático que surgiu em Portugal no início do século XVI como uma dança selvagem popular das ruas que teve sua estrutura rítmica e harmônica modificadas ao passar pela Espanha. Da península ibérica, migrou para a Itália e foi levada por guitarristas italianos à corte francesa, transformando-se ali em uma dança majestosa. Sua história a partir desse itinerário é complexa e reflete sua grande popularidade, pois ela ainda constitui grande fonte de inspiração para diversos compositores, desde nomes consagrados como Bach, Beethoven e Liszt, até trilhas compostas para filmes comerciais. Outros temas musicais apresentam a mesma recorrência histórica, como por exemplo, o hino católico Dies Irae do século XIII ou o tema do Capricho N.24 de Paganini, mas a retomada da Folias de Espanha como tema musical é a mais recorrente na História da Música.<br>This thesis focuses on the trajectory of the theme Spanish Folias, which is one of the most remarkable phenomena in musicology due to its permanent recurrence in music history. Our goal was to broaden the scope of interdisciplinary study and musicological reflection through the understanding of the use of the theme in music history and its historiography, in order to enrich the horizon of our academic practice. The Spanish Folias is a simple melody with enigmatic character that first appeared in Portugal in the early sixteenth century as a wild popular street dance that had its rhythmic and harmonic structure modified by passing through Spain. From the Iberian Peninsula, it traveled to Italy and was taken by Italian guitarists to the French court, becoming into a majestic dance. Its history starting from this itinerary is complex and reflects its great popularity, since it still constitutes a great source of inspiration for several composers, since renowned names such as Bach, Beethoven and Liszt, until soundtracks composed for commercial movies. Other musical themes display the same historical recurrence, as for example, the XIII century catholic hymn Dies Irae or Paganinis Caprice N.24, but the resuming of Spanish Folias as musical subject is the most recurrent in the History of Music.
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Barragan, Nieto Jose Pablo. "De bubas y anticuerpos: un estudio comparativo de algunas respuestas culturales al mal francés y el sida en España." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5412.
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The significant cultural impact of HIV/AIDS has led to the production of an impressive amount of scholarship in the US and Northern Europe since the outbreak of the epidemic in 1980. In contrast, the study of the cultural representations of HIV/AIDS has been largely overlooked in the realm of Spanish literary criticism. The purpose of my dissertation is to address that void through the analysis of a representative corpus of texts and artistic works from different periods and genres that acknowledge the impact of the epidemic in Spain. More particularly, this dissertation analyzes Spanish literary and artistic representations of HIV/AIDS through a critical comparison with other written materials produced in the 16th and 17th centuries as a reaction to the syphilis epidemic that hit Europe at the time, also known as the Great Pox.
The corpus of texts used in this dissertation includes Francisco Delicado’s La Lozana andaluza (1528); two short novels by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616); individual poems and collections of poetry by authors such as Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645), Anastasio Pantaleón de Ribera (1600-1629), Aníbal Núñez (1944-1987), or Galician-language poet Lois Pereiro (1958-1996); as well as artistic works and performances by AIDS activist Pepe Espaliú (1955-1993). I explore this corpus through an interdisciplinary approach bringing into play, among others, historical and medical discourses, biopolitics, sociology of literature, semiology, as well as theories about violence and empathy.
In my comparative examination of these authors’ representations of disease, I argue that contemporary writers approached HIV/AIDS using a framework inspired on the aesthetic and epistemic strategies developed in the 16th and 17th centuries in the context of the emergence of the Baroque. This framework allowed modern authors to confront the uncertainties caused by Post-Modernity and HIV/AIDS, and inspired them to depict the pandemic by means of metaphor and indirectness.
The ultimate goal of my research is to uncover variables that will help to enlighten the well-documented historical trend to stigmatize sexual transmitted and infectious diseases. My work also sheds light on the reasons behind the slow emergence of epidemic diseases as objects of cultural debate in Spain, as well as on the social, political and ethical consequences of this slowness. Finally, I argue that there are some specifically artistic and literary responses to the Great Pox and HIV/AIDS that can help to understand the nature of these diseases and to distinguish discriminatory usages of these phenomena.
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Giraldo, Hanna I. "The Influence of Levels of Processing on Spanish-English Bilingual False Memory." UNF Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/449.
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In this study we investigated the role of semantic-processing on memory for Spanish-English bilinguals using the DRM paradigm (Deese, 1959; Roediger & McDermott, 1995), a procedure commonly used to elicit false memories. Participants were tested in within-language (i.e., encoding language and recall language match) and across-language (i.e., encoding language and recall language mismatch). The results indicated higher levels of recall for semantic processing in all conditions, however at the cost of higher thematically-related intrusions. These findings are consistent with the “more is less” pattern (Toglia, Neuschatz, & Goodwin, 1999), wherein greater correct recall is accompanied by greater false recall. In addition, the cross-language conditions resulted in higher semantically relevant intrusions and lower recall overall when compared to the within-language conditions, what might be termed “less is less.” Across all conditions non-semantic processing led to fewer false memories leading to overall accuracy exceeding that in the semantic-processing. In addition, greater levels of accuracy were observed in the within-language conditions. The study highlights the effects of semantic-processing on associative memory by exploring linguistic conditions that lead to false memories and provides insight into the procedure involved in transferring information from one language at encoding and another at retrieval and how false memories occur during this transferring process. Spanish-English bilinguals represent more than half of all bilinguals in the United States, and this population continues to increase (Grosjean, 2012). Implications for forensic interviewing (as in avoiding suspect interrogations always being conducted in English) and eyewitness testimony are among the applications that are discussed.
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Esbrí, Blasco Montserrat. ""Cooking" in the mind: a frame-based contrastive study of culinary metaphors in American English and Peninsular Spanish." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/669271.
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The present thesis aims at identifying and contrasting metaphorical expressions and their underlying conceptual metaphors grounded in the COOKING domain in American English (AmE) and Peninsular Spanish (PenSp). To achieve this aim, this dissertation focuses on metaphors referred to by culinary actions in COCA and Corpus del Español: Web/Dialects. This investigation presents a refined version of MIP (Pragglejaz, 2007) that integrates frames (Fillmore, 1982) as a semantic tool for characterizing the basic and the contextual senses of words. This procedure allows for identifying the frame elements that are mapped onto other frames in each culture. On the whole, the results of this dissertation expand our knowledge on cross-linguistic variation by pointing out the scope of metaphors evoked and the cultural salience of those metaphors in AmE and PenSp. Therefore, this study reveals valuable clues on the role of culture in the configuration of specific patterns of metaphorical conceptualization.<br>El objetivo de esta tesis es identificar y contrastar expresiones metafóricas y sus metáforas conceptuales subyacentes basadas en el dominio COCINA en Inglés Americano (IngA) y Español Peninsular (EspP). Para lograr este objetivo esta tesis se centra en metáforas evocadas por acciones culinarias en COCA y Corpus del Español: Web/Dialects. Esta investigación presenta una versión mejorada de MIP (Pragglejaz, 2007) que integra marcos (Fillmore, 1982) como herramienta semántica para caracterizar el sentido básico y contextual de las palabras. Este método permite identificar los elementos de marco que se proyectan a otros marcos en cada cultura. Los resultados de esta tesis expanden nuestro conocimiento sobre variación metafórica entre lenguas al señalar el conjunto de metáforas culinarias evocadas y la relevancia cultural de estas metáforas en IngA y EspP. Por tanto, este estudio revela evidencias importantes sobre el rol de la cultura en la configuración de patrones específicos de conceptualización metafórica.
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Sanchez, Maria-Elena. "Validation Of Assessment Indicators Of General Patterns Of Psycholinguistic And Cognitive Abilities Of Young Spanish-Speaking Children (Bilingual, Translation, Tests, Language Development)." Scholarly Commons, 1986. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3528.
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Problem. Most of the diagnostic tools available for the assessment of language and cognition in early childhood education have been designed for fluent English-speakers. Few instruments include items appropriate to the needs of Spanish-speaking children with limited English Proficiency (LEP). Available Spanish language test are translations of English tools and have not been standardized among the Hispanic population. Classroom teachers and education specialists need an appropriately validated Spanish test for educational planning and programing of LEP Spanish-speaking children. Purpose. The purpose of this study was three dimensional: (1) to develop a functional adaptation of a criterion-referenced diagnostic test for the assessment of language and cognitive skills of preschool LEP Spanish-speaking children for educational planning, (2) to establish validity and reliability of the adapted Spanish criterion-referenced test and two norm-referenced tests to be used by educational diagnosticians for the assessment of language and learning abilities of young LEP Spanish-speaking pupils. Procedures. The test Evaluacion de Languaje y Habilidades Cognoscitivas en Edad Pre-Escolar (ELCEP) was developed as the Spanish adaptation of the Preschool Language-Cognitive Skills Assessment for Curriculum Entry (PLACE), by John Logfren (1978). The first draft of ELCEP was field tested and revised in preparation for validation of six Spanish-English bilingual professionals from different fields of education. A sample of 35 LEP Spanish-speaking children was used to establish the reliability of the ELCEP. A sample of 100 LEP Spanish-speaking children was used to establish concurrent validity of the ELCEP, and the two norm-referenced test, Prueba Illinois de Habilidades Psicolinguisticas (PIHP) and Bateria Woodcock de Proficiencia del Idioma or Woodcock Language Proficiency Battery Spanish (WLPB-Span.) Findings. The level of significance for rejecting the null hypotheses was set at .05. No significant differences were found between male and female scores, or between age group scores from the reliability sample of the ELCEP. Significant correlations and traits of communality were found from comparison of 15 variables from the ELCEP, PHIP, and WLPB-Span, through factor analysis. Recommendation. Additional extension of the ELCEP for ensuring quality of test constructs to permit criterion-referenced and norm-referenced application of the test. Further studies to ensure appropriate development of equivalent English and Spanish forms of the ELCEP, and local norms for the PHIP AND WLPB-Span.
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López, María Marta. "La Poesía Tanguera de Eladia Blázquez: De la Melancolía Tradicional a la Vanguardia Renovadora." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/mcl_theses/2.
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The purpose of this study is to explore and analyze the ars poetica in the work of Eladia Blázquez (1936-2005), and to appreciate to what extent it converges or separates detaches itself from the traditional tango lyrics. Due to her numerous pieces, she is the first and only woman to write both music and lyrics consistently, while proposing a different viewpoint in tone and themes in order to update them to current times. Among them, the major are Buenos Aires, life and identity. The researcher proposes that Blázquez nourished herself on the classics, recreating them while offering new expressive possibilities, shifting at times from their melancholic tone and the moaning sound of the bandoneón, tango’s soul-haunting instrument, to a more hopeful one. Definitely, Blázquez’s renovated vanguard brought about change in Argentinean tango poetry, and the genre back to life when it was agonizing. INDEX WORDS: Tango, Lyrics, Eladia Blázquez, Buenos Aires, Life, National identity.
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Stack, Margaret. "An Archaeological and Archival Appraisal of "Spanish Indians" on the West Coast of Florida in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3363.
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Spanish Indian is a generic term that has been used repeatedly in written documents over the past three centuries to describe a range of different social, ethnic, and economic groups in the southeastern United States. In this thesis, a comparative analysis of the material culture from Cuban fishing ranchos of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries on the west coast of Florida addresses the ways in which specific Spanish Indian artifact assemblages fit into the archaeological record. Three archaeological assemblages from known Rancho sites are detailed and analyzed. In addition, this thesis details a public archaeology project undertaken in conjunction with the Florida Public Archaeology Network, which led to the development of a traveling exhibit and public presentation on the origins of local place names. The thesis also provides suggestions for how historical archaeologists might contend with difficulties in determining and documenting identity at early historical sites in coastal Florida. The research undertaken for this thesis demonstrates a pressing need for additional data collection and research in the field. As it currently stands, however, the preliminary analysis conducted in this thesis indicates an economic basis for cultural interaction and intermarriage rather than an actual cultural synthesis, creolization, or ethnogenesis, which would imply shared cultural systems of belief and meaning. This thesis is also a proposal for a typology of ranchos. Through a cross-comparison of the similarities and differences in subsistence strategies and labor practices, a research design for rancho archaeology is outlined.
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Lopez, Melissa. "Genre Criticism: Is Testimonio A/Part of Creative Nonfiction?" Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/771.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf<br>Bachelors<br>English<br>Arts and Sciences<br>Creative Writing