Download or read book Technology and Spanish Writing with Native Speakers written by Herman Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Free Voluntary Reading written by Stephen D. Krashen and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book documents the latest research findings about the success of free voluntary reading in developing high levels of literacy"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Application of Computer based Technology to the Teaching of Writing in Spanish as a Foreign Language written by Nuria Gago and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book What Do Students Think written by Daniel K. Bates and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern technology has provided foreign language teachers with several methods of connecting their classes and students to native speakers of target languages. Much of the existing research about these online conversations is focused on changes in students’ proficiency or cultural sensitivity. Although valuable, the research is lacking in understanding students’ experience online including positive and negative feelings, challenges, and students’ overall opinion of the exchanges’ usefulness. This study was conducted in an effort to better understand students’ experience communicating online with native speakers. A third semester Spanish class at Brigham Young University consisting of 18 students was selected as a sample. These students were required to speak online with native Spanish speakers for at least 20 minutes in Spanish each week. Students completed weekly surveys, a final survey, and three students were selected for a semi-structured interview. This study was conducted using a mixed-methods approach, involving both quantitative and qualitative data. The data revealed common struggles that students faced during online exchanges, methods students used for coping with these difficulties, areas of perceived growth as a result of the exchanges, and social factors that had significant impact on students’ experience. The study concludes with recommendations of what foreign language educators can do to support their own classes in similar online exchanges. Areas of further investigation regarding online exchanges with native speakers are also recommended.

Download or read book Writing and Speaking in the Technology Professions written by David F. Beer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-07-04 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of the classic guide to technical communication Consider that 20 to 50 percent of a technology professional's time is spent communicating with others. Whether writing a memo, preparing a set of procedures, or making an oral presentation, effective communication is vital to your professional success. This anthology delivers concrete advice from the foremost experts on how to communicate more effectively in the workplace. The revised and expanded second edition of this popular book completely updates the original, providing authoritative guidance on communicating via modern technology in the contemporary work environment. Two new sections on global communication and the Internet address communicating effectively in the context of increased e-mail and web usage. As in the original, David Beer's Second Edition discusses a variety of approaches, such as: * Writing technical documents that are clear and effective * Giving oral presentations more confidently * Using graphics and other visual aids judiciously * Holding productive meetings * Becoming an effective listener The new edition also includes updated articles on working with others to get results and on giving directions that work. Each article is aimed specifically at the needs of engineers and others in the technology professions, and is written by a practicing engineer or a technical communicator. Technical engineers, IEEE society members, and technical writing teachers will find this updated edition of David Beer's classic Writing and Speaking in the Technology Professions an invaluable guide to successful communication.

Download or read book Brave New Digital Classroom written by Robert J. Blake and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Blake, now with Gabriel Guillén, updates his successful book (1st ed. 2008, 2nd ed. 2013) on how to teach foreign languages using technology. Brave New Digital Classroom touches on all of the key concepts and challenges of teaching with technology, focusing on issues specific to FLL or L2 learning and CALL. Originally referred to as computer-assisted language learning, CALL has come to encompass any kind of learning that uses digital tools for language learning. This edition reframes the conversation to account for how technology has been integrated into our lives. Blake and Guillén address the ways technology can help with L2, how to choose the right digital tools, how to use those tools effectively, and how technology can impact literacy and identity. The book is primed for use in graduate courses: terminology is in bold and a comprehensive glossary is included; each chapter finishes with a short list of references for further reading on the topic and discussion questions. The authors provide short interview videos (free via GUP website) to enhance discussions on each chapter’s topic.

Download or read book Integrating Reading Writing and Talk in the Spanish for Native Speakers Classroom written by Mariela Cordero and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Multiliteracies Pedagogy and Language Learning written by Gabriela C. Zapata and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first volume to be devoted to the examination of the application of the multiliteracies pedagogical framework to the teaching of Spanish to heritage language learners in higher education institutions in the United States. The Hispanic population is a growing minority, and the presence of heritage speakers can be observed in second language Spanish classes in all levels of education, which presents unique challenges for practitioners. This collection focuses on differing populations of learners in educational settings in a variety of geographical areas, such as Arizona, California, Maryland, Massachusetts, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas. The studies included in the volume offer invaluable data and methodological insights into the instructional advantages of multiliteracies pedagogies in heritage language classrooms, and they will appeal to Spanish practitioners and researchers, as well as those interested in the education and practice of heritage languages.

Download or read book Action Research From Concept to Presentation A Practical Handbook to Writing Your Master s Thesis written by Peter K. Lynch EdD, Ryan C. Welch,MS and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the most daunting graduate school requirement is the development of an action research Master's thesis. This capstone task requires unprecedented amounts of time, energy, and verbiage. Designed to take stress out of the thesis-writing equation, this student-friendly comprehensive handbook glides the reader through a 28-step process from developing a focal topic to defending a scholarly thesis. Framing each chapter as a one-week action assignment, the authors have broken down the process into manageable chunks to enable students writers to achieve an immediate sense of completion at every step. By using this scaffolding approach the the authors encourage the student researcher to focus on one part of the process rather than the total, sometimes overwhelming, final product. With the exception of the "Review of the Literature" section which takes several weeks to complete, all other thesis sections can and should be timed out for seven days. The Authors primary objective was to empower the student researcher to accomplish each of the steps in the process while never loosing site on the product that will help the children in their classrooms. Whether developing an Abstract or writing in-text citations, student researchers are guided throughout he nuances of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Associations, 6th Edition.

Download or read book How to Learn Spanish written by Maria Blanco and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Learn Spanish is a comprehensive guide for students of Spanish. It teaches powerful language learning principles and strategies for:Expanding and memorising vocabulary.Setting up good pronunciation habits.Learning grammar effectively.Optimising the development of speaking, writing, listening and reading.Selecting appropriate resources and incorporating fun language learning activities.Setting language learning goals and action plans.The principles and strategies are informed by current research into language learning, cognitive psychology, and educational neuroscience, as well as the author's more than 20 years experience as a teacher.FORMATEasy to read: written in simple and clear colloquial English (no technical terms).Inspirational: it includes real-life stories of language learning challenges and successes.Dual coding design: explanations of key principles and strategies sup- ported by illustrations.Action oriented: students are helped to reflect on their language learning strategies, needs and goals, in the sections titled "e;What about you?"e;

Download or read book Aproximaciones Al Estudio de la Literatura Hispanica written by Carmelo Virgillo and published by McGraw-Hill Europe. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Fluent Forever written by Gabriel Wyner and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For anyone who wants to learn a foreign language, this is the method that will finally make the words stick. “A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages.”—Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school—who does? Rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources—and here he wants to show others what he’s discovered. Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You’ll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next, you’ll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you’ll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Integrating Technology Into Contemporary Language Learning and Teaching written by Zou, Bin and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology has become an integral part of our everyday lives. As today’s teachers prepare to instruct a new generation of students, the question is no longer whether technology should be integrated into the classroom, but “how?” The Handbook of Research on Integrating Technology Into Contemporary Language Learning and Teaching is a critical scholarly publication that examines the relationship between language education and technology and the ability to improve language education through technological advances. Featuring coverage on a wide range of topics, such as computer-assisted language learning, flipped instruction, and teacher education, this publication is geared toward researchers, practitioners, and education professionals seeking relevant research on the improvement of language education through the use of technology.

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 Science Research Writing For Native And Non native Speakers Of English Second Edition written by Hilary Glasman-deal and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book enables STEMM researchers to write effective papers for publication as well as other research-related texts such as a doctoral thesis, technical report, or conference abstract.Science Research Writing uses a reverse-engineering approach to writing developed from extensive work with STEMM researchers at Imperial College London. This approach unpacks current models of STEMM research writing and helps writers to generate the writing tools needed to operate those models effectively in their own field. The reverse-engineering approach also ensures that writers develop future-proof strategies that will evolve alongside the coming changes in research communication platforms.The Second Edition has been extensively revised and updated to represent current practice and focuses on the writing needs of both early-stage doctoral STEMM researchers and experienced professional researchers at the highest level, whether or not they are native speakers of English. The book retains the practical, user-friendly format of the First Edition, and now contains seven units that deal separately with the components of written STEMM research communication: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Abstract and Title, as well as extensive FAQ responses and a new Checklist and Tips section. Each unit analyses extracts from recent published STEMM journal papers to enable researchers to discover not only what to write, but, crucially, how to write it.The global nature of science research requires fast, accurate communication of highly complex information that can be understood by all participants. Like the First Edition, the Second Edition is intended as a fast, do-it-yourself guide to make both the process and the product of STEMM research writing more effective.Related Link(s)

Download or read book Madrigal s Magic Key to Spanish written by Margarita Madrigal and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use the English you already know to quickly learn the basics of Spanish with this unique, accessible guide featuring original illustrations by Andy Warhol—from one of America’s most prominent language teachers. Read, write, and speak Spanish in only a few short weeks! Even the most reluctant learner will be astonished at the ease and effectiveness of Margarita Madrigal’s unique method of teaching a foreign language. Completely eliminating rote memorization and painfully boring drills, Madrigal’s Magic Key to Spanish is guaranteed to help you: • Learn to speak, read, and write Spanish quickly and easily • Convert English into Spanish in an instant • Start forming sentences after the very first lesson • Identify thousands of Spanish words within a few weeks of study • Travel to Spanish-speaking countries with confidence and comfort • Develop perfect pronunciation, thanks to a handy pronunciation key With original black-and-white illustration by Andy Warhol, Madrigal’s Magic Key to Spanish will provide readers with a solid foundation upon which to build their language skills.