Download or read book Developing Writing Skills in Spanish written by Javier Muñoz-Basols and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing Writing Skills in Spanish is designed to be used as a classroom text, self study material, or simply as a resource on writing. It provides intermediate and advanced level students of Spanish with the necessary skills to become competent and confident writers in the Spanish language.
Download or read book Improving Writing Skills of Spanish speaking Students written by Maria Patricia Castro-Porto and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developing Writing Skills in Spanish written by Javier Muñoz-Basols and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing Writing Skills in Spanish provides intermediate and advanced level students with the necessary skills to become competent and confident writers in the Spanish language. With a focus on writing as a craft, Developing Writing Skills in Spanish offers a rich selection of original materials including narrative texts, expository essays, opinion pieces and newspaper articles. Each chapter covers a specific kind of writing and is designed to help tackle the material in small units. The book aids students in crafting clear, coherent and cohesive manuscripts by means of guided practice and step-by-step activities. Key features: Guidance on how to structure a variety of texts: narrative, descriptive, expository, argumentative, academic, journalistic, legal and scientific. Sequenced exercises on style, writing conventions, word choice, syntax and grammar. Reference lists and tables with specialized vocabulary, transition words and other useful expressions. Strategies and tips for planning manuscripts, brainstorming ideas, vocabulary enrichment, editing and proofreading. Includes original samples, as well as fragments from newspapers, well-known literary works and essays by notable Hispanic authors and journalists. Website with additional activities to reinforce the content of each chapter and a teacher's guide with valuable support materials at: www.developingwritingskills.com Designed as a classroom text, self-study material or simply as a resource on writing, Developing Writing Skills in Spanish is the ideal supplement for all intermediate to advanced students of Spanish.
Download or read book English Writing Composition for the Spanish Speaker written by Kathleen Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yo Se Espa ol Requetebien written by Beatriz Espitia and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Question: What happens if I use Language Experience Approach to teach reading and writing in a Spanish class for native speakers? Research Activities: All the students who enrolled in Spanish for native speakers' class already speak Spanish as their first language, but often these students have had few opportunities to acquire written abilities in Spanish. These bilingual students typically enroll in Spanish for native speakers classes at the high school level, where they are taught about the grammar of Spanish, and how to write for personal as well as expository purposes. This inquiry research focused on an approach that teaches writing which draws from students' background to develop their written ideas. This way of teaching writing is called Language Experience Approach (LEA). The Language Experience Approach is an approach that uses students' oral language to develop their reading and writing skills. The purpose of the study was to analyze how using a version of the Language Experience Approach helps students improve their reading and writing skills in Spanish. The intervention was conducted with a small group of four students at different proficiency levels in Spanish, two high performing and two average performing. There were three different data sets collected: two surveys, three writing samples and several observational notes in the course of three weeks. The focus of the research was to examine the individual performance of each student using the LEA. The sub-questions were: What is the difference between their writing and reading of LEA and the textbook we use in the class? How will the production and comprehension differ between the two texts, LEA and the classroom textbook? Students writing and reading skills improved greatly from the first LEA story to the third LEA story, since they were able to incorporate their personal experiences to develop their literacy skills. Compared to textbook material, students engaged in and improved their sentence structure and descriptive detail with LEA activities. Grade Level: Secondary, 9-10. Subject: Spanish. Project Descriptor: Survey-Attitude, Observation-Field notes, Observation-Student Engagement, Writing Samples, Language Experience Approach.
Download or read book The Everything Spanish Practice Book written by Julie Gutin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¿Habla espanol? Are you ready to take your basic Spanish skills to the next level? Have you gotten all you can from your instructional textbooks? Do you like to learn in creative and fun ways? With exciting audio narrated by Con Salsa Radio Host Peter Martinez and with over 200 exercises, The Everything Spanish Practice Book with CD has everything needed to master the Spanish language. Ideal for the beginner and intermediate speaker alike, this fun and easy-to-follow guide is a complete learning experience. With emphasis on: Proper Spanish grammar and usage Vocabulary building techniques Instructional keys to pronunciation Comprehension and conversation skills Writing clearly and effectively The Everything Spanish Practice Book with CD is the ultimate resource for improving - and perfecting! - your Spanish.
Download or read book Heritage Speakers of Spanish Learning to Write in Their Heritage Language written by Clara Salto-Weis Azevedo and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As more heritage Spanish-speaking students enter universities across the country and more specific language courses are offered to them, the more instructors know about how heritage speakers write in Spanish the better they can meet their students' language needs. This dissertation study examined writing skill development in heritage speakers (HS) of Spanish. Heritage speakers tend to have well-developed oral skills, but limited writing skills. While previous research has indicated that HS writing is different than second language (L2) writing (Camus & Adrada-Rafael, 2015; Sánchez Abchi & De Mier, 2017; Silva, Sánchez Abchi, & Borzone, 2010) and others have defended that it has some similarities with native speaker (NS) writing (Spicer-Escalante, 2003, 2005, 2007), much of this research was done based on learners writing one text. The current study offers a longitudinal perspective by following four HS college students over the course of a semester and analyzing assignments they wrote for a Spanish for heritage speakers course during their early stages of learning to write in Spanish. To give a wider viewpoint of the learning process, participants were interviewed three times along the way. They shared their perspectives about their own learning process as well as the writing elements they thought would be easier and more challenging to achieve in that process. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were applied to investigate the following three research questions: (1) Over the course of a one-semester, college-level Spanish for HSs course, how does learners' writing develop in terms of syntactic complexity, accuracy, and fluency, and in terms of structure? (2) What do HSs see as challenges and what do they see as easily achievable writing components in the process of learning how to write in Spanish? (3) To what degree are these challenges and easily achievable writing components reflected in the writing samples that learners completed as course requirements during the semester of observation? Results showed that participants used the language tools available to them from being bilinguals and having previous writing experiences, that is their writing English skills and applied them to their Spanish writing practices. This can be seen in the syntactic complexity levels they all produced from the very first text they wrote. The more Spanish-specific writing elements such as accent marks and spelling were sources for error as they pertain only to written Spanish and, therefore, the HSs' oral experience with the language did not help them. During the interviews, participants tended to express expectations that global writing characteristics would be easier when learning to write in Spanish, as they were counting on their English writing skills. However, L1 transfer happened more at the local level of sentence structure and words and less at the global level of discourse structure and register. Many factors seem to affect HSs' writing skills, and assumptions should not be made about their writing proficiency based on their oral proficiency.
Download or read book Effects of a Writing Program on Second Language Skills of Hispanic Students written by Jesús Fuentes and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of the Spanish for Spanish Speakers Approach to Literacy on the Development of Students Writing Skills written by Carolina Martínez Vargas and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development of a Language Arts Program Designed to Improve Reading and Writing Skills in Spanish of Bilingual Secondary Level Students Using Interest as Motivation written by Rafael Domingo and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing Strategies in the Second Language Classroom written by Rebecca Lynn Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SYSTEMATIC INSTRUCTION IN READING FOR SPANISH SPEAKING STUDENTS written by Elva Duran and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students whose first language is not English are the fastest-growing group in public schools in all regions of the United States. Almost 10 million children between the ages of five and 17 live in the homes and communities in which a language other than English in spoken and presently most schools in the U.S. are under-educating many English learners. The achievement of Hispanic students needs to improve dramatically over the next five years and this book describes the cornerstone elements for bringing about this change. The initial chapter introduces direct instruction to be used with reading and literacy programs. Chapters 2 and 3 provide excellent review of the literature in language development and address developing language instruction, listening, and speaking with Spanish-speaking students and offers what a comprehensive language development program should look like. Chapter 4 reviews academic language and literacy instruction while the next addresses the components of instruction in Spanish. Chapter 6 offers lesson plan suggestions for Spanish-speaking students, while the following two sections discuss components that transfer and do not transfer in Spanish to English reading instruction. Chapter 9 reviews English language development and provides lesson plans for implementing SDAIE programs. Finally, Chapter 10 discusses two-way bilingual immersion and shares actual classroom schedules and lessons. This unique text will help in the preparation of primary grade teachers throughout the U.S. so that they may be successful with Hispanic students entering the public schools with little or no English background. It will also be a useful tool for school districts’ staff development in addressing school improvement goals for increasing the achievement of Hispanic students.
Download or read book Developing Reading and Writing in Second language Learners written by Diane August and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2008 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reporting the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth, this book concisely summarises what is known from empirical research about the development of literacy in language-minority children and youth, including development, environment, instruction, and assessment.
Download or read book Teaching Reading and Writing in Spanish in the Bilingual Classroom written by Yvonne S. Freeman and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Reading and Writing in Spanish in the Bilingual Classroom provides essential support for those working to develop Spanish-English biliteracy in grades K-6.
Download or read book 180 Days of Writing for Third Grade Spanish written by Kristi Sturgeon and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help Spanish-speaking third graders improve their writing skills with fun and effective daily practice activities. Engage students while guiding them through the five steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. This easy-to-use first grade workbook is great for at-home learning or in the classroom. The engaging standards-based writing activities cover grade-level skills with easy to follow instructions and an answer key to quickly assess student understanding. Watch student confidence grow while building important writing, grammar, and language skills with independent learning. Parents appreciate the teacher-approved activity books that keep their child engaged and learning. Great for homeschooling, to reinforce learning at school, or prevent learning loss over summer. Teachers rely on the daily practice workbooks to save them valuable time. The ready to implement activities are perfect for daily morning review or homework. The activities can also be used for intervention skill building to address learning gaps.
Download or read book The Teaching of Reading in Spanish to the Bilingual Student La Ense anza De La Lectura En Espa ol Para El Estudiante Biling E written by Angela Carrasquillo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dual-language text provides theory and methodology for teaching reading in Spanish to Spanish/English bilingual or Spanish-dominant students. The goal is to help educators teach these students the skills necessary to become proficient readers and, thus, successful in the school system. At the very core of the book are the hispano-parlantes--the Spanish-speaking children--who bring to the schools, along with their native language and cultures, a wealth of resources that must be tapped and to whom all educators have a responsibility to respond. True to the concepts of developing bilingual educators to serve bilingual students, the text presents chapters in English and Spanish. Each chapter is written in only one language at the preference of the author. Thus, to be successful with this book, the reader must be bilingual. Themes emphasized in the text include current reading methodologies, the concept of reading as developmental literacy skills, reading in the content areas, new views of the development of proficiency in the second language, issues related to students with special learning needs, assessment, and the uses of technology in the delivery of instruction. Never losing sight of its goal--to teach reading in Spanish to bilingual or Spanish-dominant students--the book includes a series of focusing questions and follow-up activities; these are not simply translations of existing activities, strategies, and techniques intended for monolingual English students, but specifically designed to be appropriate for Spanish-speaking students. Directed to university preservice and in-service instructors of reading and bilingual education as well as administrators and district- and school-level staff developers who work with Hispanic populations, the book is sensitive at all times to nuances of the languages and cultures of the intended audiences.
Download or read book Book Fiesta written by Pat Mora and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a ride in a long submarine or fly away in a hot air balloon. Whatever you do, just be sure to bring your favorite book! Rafael López's colorful illustrations perfectly complement Pat Mora's lilting text in this delightful celebration of El día de los niños/El día de los libros; Children's Day/Book Day. Toon! Toon! Includes a letter from the author and suggestions for celebrating El día de los niños/El día de los libros; Children's Day/Book Day. Pasea por el mar en un largo submarino o viaja lejos en un globo aerostático. No importa lo que hagas, ¡no olvides traer tu libro preferido! Las coloridas ilustraciones de Rafael López complementan perfectamente el texto rítmico de Pat Mora en esta encantadora celebración de El día de los niños/El día de los libros. ¡Tun! ¡Tun! Incluye una carta de la autora y sugerencias para celebrar El día de los niños/El día de los libros. The author will donate a portion of the proceeds from this book to literacy initiatives related to Children's Day/Book Day. La autora donará una porción de las ganancias de este libro a programas para fomentar la alfabetización relacionados con El día de los niños/El día de los libros.
