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Sã£O Paulo Water Crisis Enters Critical Phase In 2015, Gregory Scruggs

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Calls For Greater Regulation After Cave-Ins Kill Artisanal Miners In Nicaragua, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

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U.S., Mexico Take Actions To Combat Money Laundering, Carlos Navarro

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Peru’S New Youth Employment Law Sparks Protests, Calls For Repeal, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A

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Venezuelans United Against U.S. Sanctions, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

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Despite Opposition From Honduran Communities, All Is Set For Zedes Following Second Corte Suprema Ruling, George Rodrã­Guez

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Transparency Concerns Regarding Election Of Comptroller General, Louisa Reynolds

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Veracruz Continues To Live Up To Reputation As Dangerous State For Journalists, Carlos Navarro

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Right-Wing Colombians Block Peace Process, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

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President Michelle Bachelet Hoping To Scale Back Chile’S Blanket Abortion Ban, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

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Lack Of Parliamentary And Municipal Elections Leads To Demonstrations In Haiti; Prime Minister Resigns, George Rodrã­Guez

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Dominican Republic Economy Improves But Country Sinks Further Into Debt, Crosby Girã³N

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Mexican Consumers Pay More At The Pump Despite Sharp Drop In Global Oil Prices, Carlos Navarro

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Official Orthographies, Spelling Debates And Nation-Building Projects After The Fall Of The Spanish Empire, Laura Villa

Publications and Research

The collapse of the Spanish Empire in the first half of the nineteenth century prompted a need to reorganize the former colonial space in independent countries by creating territorial, political and identity boundaries in Spanish-speaking America. The imposition of a national language – the officialization of grammatical and orthographic norms and their promotion through emerging public education systems – was a key instrument in the nation-building processes developed in Spain and the newly independent American republics. In this socio-political context resistance to official norms and their implementation was frequent. This article studies three language ideological debates over Spanish orthography, occurring …

Ua68/2 Potter College Of Arts & Letters Interdisciplinary Studies, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Interdisciplinary Studies which include:

• African American Studies
• Asian Studies
• Canadian Studies
• Film Studies
• Latin American Studies

España Ante El Mundo: Spain's Colonial Language Policies In North Africa, Lotfi Sayahi

Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty Scholarship

During its presence in Northern Morocco and the Western Sahara, Spain lauded its colonial policies, and relations with the native populations in general, as being more successful than those of the other colonial power present in the region, France. While it is true that France’s educational policies were narrowly aimed at forming acquiescent elites of the Maghrebi societies, Spain’s policies in turn were severely conditioned by a hyper-awareness of existing ethno-religious divisions, a product of the prominence of religion in the historical relations between Iberia and the Maghreb. In this essay, I discuss the differences in Spain’s educational policies between …

“I Am Filled With Freedom”: A Staged Production And Translation Of Antigona...¡Cerda! By Luis Riaza, Sara Linares

Theses & ETDs

This thesis explores adaptation through translation in Luis Riaza’s dramatic text, Antígona...¡Cerda!. I have translated this play from Spanish to English and staged it at New College of Florida. The first chapter describes the sociohistorical and cultural context in which Riaza wrote the play as well as an explanation and analysis of his style of work. My translation of the play is the second chapter, which includes notes on directorial and translation choices. The final chapter is a reflection on the performance and the rehearsal process including an explanation on specific actor technique. A copy of the performance is attached …

Assessing Introductory-Level Spanish Learners' Attitudes Towards Feedback In The Classroom, Aparecida De Fatima Cordeiro Dutra

Open Access Theses

This study examines beginner Spanish learners’ attitudes towards feedback in the

A Variationist Approach To Code-Switching And Lexical Borrowing : The Case Of Limonese-Spanish Bilinguals In Puerto LimóN, Costa Rica, Ashley Laboda

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

The current study aims to contribute to the body of research on variation in the speech of bilinguals in language contact situations, as well as the ongoing discussions of creoles in contact with languages other than their lexifiers. Bilingual production of lone lexical Spanish insertions and multiword Spanish insertions in otherwise Limonese Creole (Limonese) speech are analyzed, and both linguistic and extralinguistic factors are considered. Previous studies have measured lone word integration in bilingual corpora and have shown that lone lexical insertions are integrated into the recipient language as borrowings almost categorically regardless of frequency (nonce or more frequent than …

Las Adolescentes Indígenas: Una Prioridad De Hoy Para Un Mejor Futuro Nacional En El 2015, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Esta hoja informativa detalla los problemas prioritarios que enfrentan los adolescentes guatemaltecos y presenta las acciones recomendadas para un mejor futuro nacional. Las áreas prioritarias incluyen la educación primaria y secundaria, la salud reproductiva y los medios de vida. La hoja incluye un ejercicio de cobertura—una herramienta simple, rápida y económica que permite entender a quién están llegando los servicios. Permite además identificar problemas comunes entre organizaciones, comprender el acceso diferenciado, identificar vacíos programáticos y modificar el alcance de los programas.

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This fact sheet details the priority problems facing Guatemalan adolescents and presents recommended actions for a better national …

The Balanced Counseling Strategy Plus: A Toolkit For Family Planning Service Providers Working In High Hiv/Sti Prevalence Settings (Spanish Translation), Population Council

Reproductive Health

The Balanced Counseling Strategy Plus (BCS+) toolkit, developed and tested in Kenya and South Africa, provides information and materials that healthcare providers need to offer complete, high-quality family planning counseling to clients living in areas with high rates of HIV and STIs. Content is in accordance with the 2015 WHO Medical Eligibility Criteria. The BCS+ provides evidence on clinical indications for the provision of family planning methods, counseling cards, instructions for providers, and guidance for supplemental counseling and services that family planning clients may need. This publication is the Spanish language version of the user's guide, trainer's guide, algorithm, method …

Assessment And Diagnosis Of Autism Spectrum Disorder In Latino Children, Gesenia S. Sloan-Peña

Theses and Dissertations

There is an increase in the number of children who are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. However, significant racial and ethnic disparities exist in the diagnosis and treatment of the disorder. Based on the literature, Latino children appear to be under diagnosed or misdiagnosed with other psychological disorders rather than autism spectrum disorder. In addition, Latino children are typically diagnosed at a later age than their White peers. There is almost no research devoted to the assessment of autism spectrum disorder with young Latino children and there is insufficient research related to cultural perceptions of symptoms which can influence parental …

Effectiveness Of Visual-Based Safety Training Compared With Non-Visual Based Safety Training In The Meat Processing Industry For Non-English Speaking, Hispanic Employees, Erika K. Rinehart

Online Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to identify whether visual-based safety training for non-English, Spanish speaking employees in the meat industry is more effective than non-visual training. The literature review included in this thesis studies the known barriers to training Hispanic workers, the existing training methods out there for safety training, and the best forms of safety training for non-English, Spanish speaking workers.

The methodology in this research evaluated the effectiveness of visual-based training versus a non-visual training for non-English, Spanish speaking employees in the meat industry. Two training sessions with a total of 30 volunteers was organized in order …

A Comparison Of Maze Frequency And Type Across Language And Speaker: A Look At English And Spanish Narrative Retells, Melissa Silver

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Background: Mazes, as they are referred to in the language literature, are disfluencies that do not add meaning to an utterance including filled pauses, whole word revisions, part word revisions, part word repetitions and whole word repetitions. Extensive research has been conducted on mazes in monolingual and bilingual children, yet the research has not been extended to adults' narrative retell production.

Aims: The current study analyzes monolingual English, monolingual Spanish, and bilingual English and Spanish narrative retells to compare the percent of maze use and type of maze use amongst groups.

Methods & Procedures: The narrative retells of thirty-nine bilingual …

Tuteo O Ustedeo: Un Estudio De Las Formas De Tratamiento En Las Publicidades De Escaparates / Tutoiement Ou Vouvoiement: Une Etude Des Formes D'Adresse Dans Les Publicités Des Vitrines, Charlotte M. Klein

Senior Independent Study Theses

In both French and Spanish, there exist two pronouns of the second person singular form of address: tu/vous and tú/usted, respectively. While the first of each pair is typically considered the ‘informal’ pronoun of address, the second is more ‘formal’, creating a complicated distinction that every person must resolve when speaking. This project analyzes the difficulty of choosing between the two forms of address through the lens of politeness theory, emphasizing the concepts of solidarity and power as well as other important factors that contribute to this complex decision. To show how the pronouns are …

Incorporating New Areas Of Business Into Business Language Studies: Social Media Marketing, Annie Abbott

Global Business Languages

Despite the fact that social media marketing has established itself as a vital area of marketing for businesses both large and small, global and local, Business Language Studies (BLS) has yet to turn its full attention to this business activity that requires a keen sense of language, culture, and business. As BLS continues to build and articulate its theoretical and methodological grounds, social media marketing provides rich research and teaching possibilities. However, social media is a dynamic, constantly changing environment that can seem intimidating to BLS educators who are unfamiliar with its platforms and uses. This article serves as an …

Tabarã© Vã¡Zquez Back As Uruguay’S President, Reflecting Region’S Progressive Trend, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

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Calls For Accountability On 25th Anniversary Of El Salvador’S Jesuit Massacre, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

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Guatemalan Government Mired In Financial Problems, Louisa Reynolds

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Supreme Court To Elect New President, Welcome New Justice In 2015, Carlos Navarro

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