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01 Sep 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: This book discusses the effects of Study Abroad and Classroom Contexts on the Acquistion of Spanish as a Second Language: From Research to Application and theoretical and Research Considerations Underlying Classroom Practice.
Abstract: Preface 1. The State of The Art of Teaching Spanish: From Research to PraxisRafael Salaberry and Barbara Lafford 2. A Content-Based Approach to Spanish Language Study: Foreign Languages Across the CurriculumCarol A. Klee and Gwendolyn Barnes-Karol 3. Spanish SLA Research, Classroom Practice and Curriculum DesignJoseph Collentine 4. Theoretical and Research Considerations Underlying Classroom Practice: The Fundamental Role of InputBill VanPatten and Michael Leeser 5. Concept-Based Instruction and The Acquisition of L2 SpanishEduardo Negueruela and James P. Lantolf 6. The Effects of Study Abroad and Classroom Contexts on the Acquistion of Spanish as a Second Language: From Research to ApplicationBarbara Lafford and Joseph Collentine 7. Online Language Learning: The Case of Spanish Without WallsRobert Blake and Ann Marie Delforge 8. Testing SpanishRafael Salaberry and Andrew D. Cohen 9. Incorporating Linguistic Variation into the ClassroomManuel J. Gutierezz and Marta Fairclough 10. Making Connections: Second Language Acquisition Research and Heritage Language TeachingGuadalupe Valdes 11. Spanish Second Language Acquisition: Applications to the Teaching of Professional Translation (and Interpretation)Sonia Colina Contributors Index

39 citations



ComponentDOI
01 Jan 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: In this article, the null-subject parameter (NSP) was reset by English L2 learners of Spanish at the intermediate level, including poverty-of-the stimulus knowledge of the Overt Pronoun Constraint (Montalbetti 1984).
Abstract: In this article, along with others, we take the position that the Null-Subject Parameter (NSP) (Chomsky 1981; Rizzi 1982) cluster of properties is narrower in scope than some originally contended. We test for the resetting of the NSP by English L2 learners of Spanish at the intermediate level, including poverty-of-the stimulus knowledge of the Overt Pronoun Constraint (Montalbetti 1984). Our participants are tested before and after five months' residency in Spain in an effort to see if increased amounts of native exposure are particularly beneficial for parameter resetting. Although we demonstrate NSP resetting for some of the L2 learners, our data essentially demonstrate that even with the advent of time/exposure to native input, there is no immediate gainful effect for NSP resetting.

28 citations



Journal ArticleDOI
01 Dec 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: This article explored non-native, heritage, and native-speaking students' perspectives on studying in linguistically mixed, upper-level Spanish courses and elicits their suggestions for successfully managing the wide variety of needs represented in their classes.
Abstract: The growing number of heritage and native speakers in university-level Spanish courses is well documented. Combining these students with non-native Spanish speakers presents unique challenges and offers specific benefits to both language teachers and students. This investigation explores non-native, heritage, and native-speaking students' perspectives on studying in linguistically mixed, upper-level Spanish courses and elicits their suggestions for successfully managing the wide variety of needs represented in their classes.

24 citations





Journal Article
01 Jan 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: This article examined the effects of pictorial (videos, images) and verbal (Spanish definitions, English translations) glosses/annotations on vocabulary learning and comprehension of an authentic literary text and found no statistically significant differences in performance between choice and forced-lookup groups.
Abstract: The World Wide Web and emerging multimedia tools and software provide students with unprecedented opportunities to comprehend authentic texts and learn new vocabulary by using and creating annotations with written and spoken text and visual information. The present study examines the effects of pictorial (videos, images) and verbal (Spanish definitions, English translations) glosses/annotations on vocabulary learning and comprehension of an authentic literary text. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the following groups: 1) control (without access to glosses), 2) choice-lookup (access to verbal and pictorial glosses), 3) forced-lookup (required to consult all available verbal and pictorial glosses). Choice and forced-lookup groups performed significantly better on the vocabulary test and summary than the control group. No statistically significant differences in performance were found between choice and forced-lookup groups.

17 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
01 Sep 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: This article analyzed the strategies used by a group of Argentinean participants when refusing an invitation and identified their preferred politeness strategies, and attempted to uncover the underlying perspectives that make up their culture within the context examined.
Abstract: This paper analyzes the strategies used by a group of Argentinean participants when refusing an invitation. It identifies their preferred politeness strategies, and attempts to uncover the underlying perspectives that make up their culture within the context examined. The analysis incorporates Brown and Levinson's (1987) model of politeness and Blum-Kulka et al's (1989) distinction between head acts and supporting moves. More importantly, it takes into account 'the discourse context [...] discourse organization and conversational management [...]" (Kasper 2000: 201) to describe the overall politeness system expressed. Results show invitees preferring to balance their expression of respect and friendliness when refusing. They used strategies that threatened their own face with more strength than the interlocutor's (i.e., the inviter), specifically their negative face. All these strategies contributed to the maintenance of their vinculo (Fitch 1998) with the interlocutor.

17 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
01 Dec 2007-Hispania

Journal ArticleDOI
01 Dec 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: Part 1 Preface Chapter 2 Issues in Translation Chapter 3 Translation Strategies and Techniques Chapter 4 History of Translation Theories Chapter 5 Traduttore, traditore.
Abstract: Part 1 Preface Chapter 2 Issues in Translation Chapter 3 Translation Strategies and Techniques Chapter 4 History of Translation Theories Chapter 5 Traduttore, traditore. Shaping Culture through Translation Chapter 6 Interpretation and Audiovisual Translation Chapter 7 Translations into English Chapter 8 Translations into Spanish Part 9 Bibliography Part 10 Index

Journal ArticleDOI
01 Sep 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: In this article, a case study on the impact of computer training on K-2 children's reading skills is presented. Butte et al. showed that the computer training of Latino migrant parents and children's use of computers to increase their reading skills was beneficial to the children.
Abstract: During the spring 2005 semester, Gettysburg College Spanish 305 students visited local Latino migrant families on a weekly basis to provide basic computer training and ESL classes as part of a study on how computer training of Latino migrant parents affects K-2 Children's reading skills. In this descriptive, interpretative and theoretical case study, Gettysburg College students acted as tutors and visited Latino migrant homes to deliver IMPACCT (Integrated Migrant Parent and Child Computer Training) to eight limited-English-proficient Latino migrant families. This paper shows the many academic, social, and cultural benefits that teaching Latino/migrant parents brought to Gettysburg College students. Students developed strong relationships with families and improved their Spanish skills and cultural awareness while helping the families to support their children's use of computers to increase their reading skills.

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30 Aug 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: A comparative essay on mutual influences between Spanish and Argentinian authoritarian nationalisms shows that overseas hispanophiles were inspired on different peninsular doctrinal sources, like the Menendez Pelayo's national-Catholicism, the liberalism of the Institucion Libre de Ensenanza, the Miguel de Unamuno's casticism, the Ortega's europeanism, the D'Ors' classicism or the Maeztu's Hispanidad.
Abstract: This comparative essay on mutual influences between Spanish and Argentinian authoritarian nationalisms shows that overseas hispanophiles were inspired on different peninsular doctrinal sources, like the Menendez Pelayo's national-Catholicism, the liberalism of the Institucion Libre de Ensenanza, the Miguel de Unamuno's casticism, the Ortega's europeanism, the D'Ors' classicism or the Maeztu's Hispanidad. From half-thirties to half-forties, the different trends of Spanish nationalism integrated in the Francoist regime failed to impose the disappearance of alternative liberaldemocratic and peripheral nationalisms in the Argentinian political debate. Although authoritarian Spanish nationalism influenced the activity of Argentinian catholic intellectuals in different ways, their real effect was very relative, because they acted only as circumstantial models to some Argentinian political regimes. But their imperialist development and their relations with the fascist regimes at the beginning of the forties restricted their possibilities of influence in Argentina in a totally irreversible way.

Journal Article
01 Jan 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: The authors argue that ideologies on language and the material conditions surrounding language use should be examined throughout the Spanish curriculum and that students should be given opportunities to examine the construction of the discipline itself.
Abstract: This article begins with a consideration of curricular reform proposals influenced by cultural studies and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of modern languages. Addressing the lack of critical perspectives on language in such approaches, we call for a pedagogy designed to foster students' critical understanding of the role of language and language ideologies in the production of knowledge, culture, and identities. Whereas earlier pedagogies based on critical language awareness (CLA) were limited to a few select courses, we argue that ideologies on language and the material conditions surrounding language use should be examined throughout the Spanish curriculum. So too should students be given opportunities to examine the construction of the discipline itself. We demonstrate the feasibility of incorporating CLA into the study of literary texts, which remain at the core of most major programs in the U.S., by providing detailed examples of activities to accompany Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva Coronica y buen gobierno.

Journal Article
01 Jan 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that prosody alone does not determine the coda that occurs in Spanish, instead, the sonorant and fricative distributions in a syllable are tied to their frequency of production and relative prominence in the universal sonority hierarchy.
Abstract: The coda has attracted the attention of many acquisition researchers. They maintain that its development responds to considerable variability. Recent studies show that Spanish-speaking children acquire medial codas in stressed syllables before producing final ones. They also develop sonorants before obstruents and acquire the plural /-s/ before /s/. The present study shows that prosody alone does not determine the codas that occur in Spanish. Instead, it claims that sonorant and fricative distributions in a syllable are tied to their frequency of production and relative prominence in the universal sonority hierarchy. Medial and final codas tend to develop at about the same time. It appears that there is no distinction between the acquisition of /-s/ and final /s/. The fi-equent occurrences of medial nasal in codas are explained as being licensed by a follovving onset.

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01 Sep 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: A Four-Part Canon for the Analysis of Brazilian National Identity is presented, focusing on Pedro I and Disputed Views of the Brazilian Nation, 1860-1900.
Abstract: Introduction: A Four-Part Canon for the Analysis of Brazilian National Identity Part I: Texts Chapter 1: Machado de Assis and the Question of Brazilian National Identity Chapter 2: Euclides de Cunha's View of Brazil's Fractured Identity Chapter 3: Gilberto Freyre's Concept of Culture in The Masters and the Slaves Part II: Facts Chapter 4: Brasiliana: Published Works and Collections Chapter 5: Forging Future Citizens in Brazilian Public Schools, 1937-1945 Part III: Sights Chapter 6: The Visual Imaging of Brazilian Identity Chapter 7: Cinematic Images of the Brazilian Indian Chapter 8: The Emperor and His Pedestal: Pedro I and Disputed Views of the Brazilian Nation, 1860-1900 Part IV: Sounds Chapter 9: Two Musical Representations of Brazil: Carlos Gomes and Heitor Villa Lobos Timeline of Brazilian History

Journal Article
01 Jan 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: This paper explored a model via Backward Design for developing performance tasks in response to the themes and questions in song lyrics, which yielded student products that draw upon their understanding of the lyrics and transfer interdisciplinary concepts, knowledge, and skills.
Abstract: Culturally authentic songs and lyrics can be integrated into all levels of the Spanish curriculum, K-16. This art form need not only be used for appreciation of a particular musical genre or as a listening, cloze activity. Songs can be aligned to a theme, line of inquiry, idea, or socio-political issue that appears in the curriculum. This workshop explored a model via Backward Design for developing performance tasks in response to the themes and questions in song lyrics. This type of assessment yields student products that draw upon their understanding of the lyrics and transfer interdisciplinary concepts, knowledge, and skills. The best advantage of learning language through visual and performing arts is their ability to extend the learners' understanding of themselves and their world while guiding them in creating meaning and developing their range of self-expression. Through the arts, lan guage and culture come alive to ignite inquiry and active learning whereby memorization of facts and recall tasks hardly fit the bill. Music defines and transmits culture, dissolving barriers of religion, cultures, race, geography, and class. Every society responds to and creates music. The music of Spanish-speaking countries offers a diverse palette of sounds, instruments, and rhythms. Classic works as well as fresh mestizo chops release the learner on a fascinating ride through cultural history. Through the music and lyrics, students learn about other cultures, their influence on musical genres, and the products, practices, and perspectives of the cultures that influenced the artists and their work. There are connections to other disciplines such as art, history, environment, social is sues, literature, and obviously music. Throughout performance-based assessment, learners make comparisons between the issues revealed in the lyrics and the messages in music from their own cultures. They also compare linguistic variations heard in songs from different Spanish-speaking countries. They apply what they learn about this music to better understand the communities that influence the blends of sounds and genres, both in the United States and around the world. In this way, students expand their idea of music from Spanish-speaking countries to understand the various cultural communities through a much wider and inclusive lens. Through technology, a wide range of music genres is readily available and the benefits of music in education are well known (Jensen 2000). Still, there is a dearth of materials on using

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01 Dec 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: The results of both reaction time tests and production accuracy analyses from this study partially support a dual-mechanism model, which posits that regularly inflected verbs are generated by rule and irregular verbs must be stored fully inflected in the lexicon.
Abstract: This study of Spanish LI and L2 speakers provides evidence that tests two competing models of the mental processing and representation of conjugated verbs. The results of both reaction time tests and production accuracy analyses from this study partially support a dual-mechanism model, which posits that regularly inflected verbs are generated by rule and irregular verbs must be stored fully inflected in the lexicon. Some of the data is inconclusive, however, and does not completely eliminate the feasibility of a competing model, namely the connectionist model. This competing model suggests that all verbs, regular and irregular, must be stored fully inflected in the lexicon and that speakers do not have access to rules.

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01 Dec 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the role of the reglas de tildacion and the silaba tonica in the adquisicion of the tilde, a task that is relativamente sencilla for estudiantes de espanol.
Abstract: Este estudio investiga la adquisicion del acento ortografico, un proceso complejo poco investigado hasta el momento. Mas especificamente, se busco determinar el rol relativo de las reglas de tildacion y la silaba tonica en la adquisicion de la tilde mediante mediante un estudio cuasi-experimental. Para esto, se aislaron en varias pruebas, antes y despues del tratamiento, distintos factores intervinientes: la percepcion/identificacion de la silaba tonica, la tildacion y la tildacion excluyendo el factor perceptivo. Para el tratamiento, los participantes recibieron instruccion sobre las reglas de acentuacion y las de tildacion. Los resultados apoyan la hipotesis de que la mayor dificultad se encuentra vinculada a la silaba tonica mientras que la colocacion de la tilde segun las reglas de tildacion resulta ser una tarea relativamente sencilla para estudiantes de espanol como segunda lengua.

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30 Aug 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: The lack of secondary sources on Gibraltar during the First World War is due to the "problem" encountered in modern and contemporary historical analysis of the British colony as mentioned in this paper. But despite the limitations of approaches dependent on arbitrary frames of reference and political borders, this article contributes to Spanish historical study of the Great War, setting relations between British strategic activities in Gibraltar and the economic, social and political dynamics generated in the Campo Region by taking into consideration the Spanish Government's attitudes towards good neighbourliness and Spanish-British bilateral understanding.
Abstract: The lack of secondary sources on Gibraltar during the First World War is due to the «problem» encountered in modern and contemporary historical analysis of the British colony. The different ways of thinking about «Gibraltar», from the Spanish, English and Gibraltarian points of view, create a fragmented panorama of studies, barely coherent with the transnational logic of the referential context. In spite of the limitations of approaches dependent on arbitrary frames of reference and political borders, this article contributes to Spanish historical study of the Great War, setting relations between British strategic activities in Gibraltar and the economic, social and political dynamics generated in the Campo Region by taking into consideration the Spanish Government’s attitudes towards good neighbourliness and Spanish-British bilateral understanding.

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30 Dec 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: The emergence and assertiveness of a new historiography of medieval Portuguese nobility is revealed by a significant number of studies carried out in the areas of social and cultural history and the history of mentalities.
Abstract: The emergence and assertiveness of a new historiography of medieval Portuguese nobility, particularly apparent in the last few years, is revealed by a significant number of studies carried out in the areas of social and cultural history and the history of mentalities. The wealth and singularity of some of the sources used, with particular reference to the books of nobility drawn up from the end of the 13th century to the 1340s, led to this revival which, however, broadened its analysis to include a variety of document typologies. The model proposed by Duby to analyse the evolution of kinship structure was reflected in this theme’s treatment in Portugal through the work of Jose Mattoso. The research undertaken in the last few years has allowed us to confront perspectives and review interpretations. Thus, throughout the 13th and 14th centuries in Portugal, on a par with an essentially «vertical» kinship structure, made clear for example in the very structure of the books of nobility, there remained a system of hereditary transmission of patrimony which treated all heirs as equal, with no exclusion of second sons or females. This fact contributed to the atomization and dispersion of nobiliary property, preventing the constitution of any great and enduring regional secular seigniorial potentates during this period.

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30 Apr 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the rise and consolidation of youth organizations in Spain, which made them almost autonomous bodies in relation to their parent organisations, and examine the conditions which favored this process, the development of the major youth organisations, their relationship with political organisations and entities, and the role of young people in the social and political conflicts which took place in Spain during the 1920s and 1930s.
Abstract: This article analyses the rise and consolidation of youth organisations in Spain, which made them almost autonomous bodies in relation to their parent organisations. The article examines the conditions which favoured this process, the development of the major youth organisations, their relationship with political organisations and entities, and the role of young people in the social and political conflicts which took place in Spain during the 1920s and 1930s. The work begins by analysing the first student protests and the shaping of the first party youth sections, continuing with a study of the development of student protest during Primo de Rivera’s Dictatorship, and the decade of the boom in youth movements in the period between 1931 and 1939.

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30 Apr 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: The foundation of the monastery of Ona by count Sancho III of Navarre as discussed by the authors highlights the desire of the Castilian counts to assert their dominion in their northern territories and demonstrates how his interests and religious feelings were close to those of his father-in-law.
Abstract: Flushed with success in the aftermath of his political and military victories against the fading powers of al-Andalus, count Sancho of Castile founded the monastery of Ona in 1011. While Ona continued the tradition of comital monasteries, it was also open to new religious and cultural influences that placed greater emphasis on the care of the dead. The foundation of the monastery also highlighted the desire of the Castilian counts to assert their dominion in their northern territories. King Sancho III of Navarre was buried in Ona in 1035. This was a carefully chosen decision that demonstrates how his interests and religious feelings were close to those of his father-in-law, count Sancho.

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30 Apr 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the evolution of insurance companies in Majorca during the 17th and 18th centuries and show that the characteristics of these companies do not differ largely from those documented in other places during the 18th century.
Abstract: During the 17th century an innovative leading role of insurance companies transformed the Spanish market. For the first time such renovation is documented from the Majorcan market. From the 1670’s, the maritime insurance companies became the predominant method of insuring in Majorca. The maritime insurances societies (Caixes de Seguretat) replaced individuals and they soon controlled the business. The convert community (chuetas) was the driving force behind this change. The converts practice one of marrying and carrying on economic and social activities within their community allowed to create a closed community. This «closed community » enabled them to create a complex network of insurance companies of different sizes linked through common partners (Caixes majors and caixons). In this way they were able to reduce the transaction costs. This model lasted during for the most part of the 18th century. The features of the model and companies do not differ largely from those documented in other places during the 18th century. Such similarities corroborate the evolutionary model rather than success was related with the novelty of the creation of the insurance companies in the 18th century.

Journal Article
01 Jan 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: The authors studied the use of framing devices in Emilia Pardo Bazan's short stories that explore the issue of gender dynamics, and found that narrative frames allowed the Countess to convey a veiled feminist message while still maintaining a large readership.
Abstract: This paper studies the use of framing devices in Emilia Pardo Bazan's short stories that explore the issue of gender dynamics. In my analysis of the four stories, "Los buenos tiempos," "Afta," "Madre" and "El encaje roto." I show how the use of this structural framing technique allows Pardo Bazan to orchestrate dialogues between the two narrators of each tale that subtly call into question patriarchal social customs and also highlight the important role of the reader in interpreting a story. Ultimately I show how the use of narrative frames in Pardo Bazan's short stories allows the Countess to convey a veiled feminist message while still maintaining a large readership.


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01 Sep 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: This article explored the feasibility of a semester-long writing activity for beginning foreign-language students and found that such an approach is an excellent component in fostering general language acquisition and likely interest in pursuing further language study.
Abstract: This project explores the feasibility of a semester-long writing activity for beginning foreign-language students. The type of writing proposed is carefully guided, but also contextualized, personalized and therefore meaningful and motivating to the student. Further, several of the national Standards for Language Learning are addressed through this activity. Included in the article are a description of how such a project can be developed, sample student writing in Spanish as well as results of a student survey on perceived usefulness of the writing task and its effect on language acquisition. Both student reaction as well as the typical ultimate written product suggest that such an approach to writing is an excellent component in fostering general language acquisition and likely interest in pursuing further language study.

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30 Apr 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: The Congregación de San Fermin de los Navarros as mentioned in this paper is a family of Navarrese and Basque brothers who established a complex social network as well as hospitals and brotherhoods for mutual help.
Abstract: From the end of 16th Century, Madrid, as the home of the court and the main recipient of the landed revenues of the monarchy, aristocracy and Church , rapidly increased in size and attracted huge migration, thereby becoming a significant consumption market and financial center. Those who migrated set up complex social networks as well as hospitals and brotherhoods for mutual help. One of those, the Congregacion de San Fermin de los Navarros, linked those coming from Navarre, who held important positions in commerce, banking and royal bureaucracy through strong kinship and patronage networks. The building of a new church for the fraternity shows up the strong economic position of its members. Several internal debates point out how consistent the reciprocal relationship was between these brotherhoods and the close but separate neighborhoods fo the Navarrese and Basque communities in Madrid.

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30 Dec 2007-Hispania
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the economic activities linked to trade and to other equally profitable businesses in La Rioja's urban society and show that these activities allowed them to create the wealth that made them the richest people where they live in, while, at the same time, enabled them to live a way of life according to the elitist knightly ideal typical of the aristocratic segments of the society of that time.
Abstract: At the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Modern Era, merchants made up one of the most dynamic and powerful social groups in La Rioja’s cities and towns. Throughout this research, we intend to show some features on these members of La Rioja’s urban society. With this in mind, we will analyse the economic activities linked to trade and to other equally profitable businesses. As we will see, these activities allowed them to create the wealth that made them the richest people where they live in, while, at the same time, enabled them to live a way of life according to the elitist knightly ideal typical of the aristocratic segments of the society of that time.