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Argentina’S €˜Happiness Revolution’ Leads To Rising Poverty Numbers, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Jun 2016

Argentina’S €˜Happiness Revolution’ Leads To Rising Poverty Numbers, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Mi Heroe, Carol Passant Jun 2016

Mi Heroe, Carol Passant

Understanding by Design: Complete Collection

This unit is designed for high school. It attempts to have students reflect on what they value in a hero and what they choose to imitate. Students learn vocabulary to describe physical traits and personality characteristics of a hero/heroine. The students will engage in conversations and reflective writing about heroes in the target language of Spanish. The assessments include an interpersonal piece and a presentational writing assessment. As much as possible, I incorporated references to authentic resources such as, videos, music, infographics, and articles in Spanish.


Nicaragua’S Daniel Ortega To Compete In His Seventh Straight Presidential Election, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar Jun 2016

Nicaragua’S Daniel Ortega To Compete In His Seventh Straight Presidential Election, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

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Costa Rica Sees Increase In Airborne Drug Trafficking, Illegal Runways, George Rodrã­Guez Jun 2016

Costa Rica Sees Increase In Airborne Drug Trafficking, Illegal Runways, George Rodrã­Guez

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No abstract provided.


Mexican Voters Send Message To Incumbent Parties, Particularly Pri, In Gubernatorial Elections, Carlos Navarro Jun 2016

Mexican Voters Send Message To Incumbent Parties, Particularly Pri, In Gubernatorial Elections, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Almost 13,000 Firearms Went Missing From Mexican Law-Enforcement Agencies Between 2006 And 2016, Carlos Navarro Jun 2016

Almost 13,000 Firearms Went Missing From Mexican Law-Enforcement Agencies Between 2006 And 2016, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Stakes Are High For Latin America In The U.S. Presidential Race, Johanna Marris Jun 2016

Stakes Are High For Latin America In The U.S. Presidential Race, Johanna Marris

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Rebels, Government Maneuver To Keep Colombia Peace Talks On Track, Andrã©S Gaudã­N Jun 2016

Rebels, Government Maneuver To Keep Colombia Peace Talks On Track, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Broadcasting The Crisis: Spanish Television As Critique, Eva Velasco Pena Jun 2016

Broadcasting The Crisis: Spanish Television As Critique, Eva Velasco Pena

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Television is often thought of as monolithic and totalizing, controlling viewers and upholding the status quo. This project will propose different understandings of the mass-medium. In order to historically contextualize my study, I will begin with a brief discussion of the role of television in democratic Spain (from c.1978-present). The thesis will primarily consist of an analysis of two sides of contemporary Spanish TV: fiction and politics; and will explore the way that certain programs, alternately catalyze critical thought and actions or enable spectators to, following John Ellis, “work through” traumatic events. I furthermore propose that imaging a concept might …


President Danilo Medina Elected For Second Term In The Dominican Republic, Crosby Girã³N Jun 2016

President Danilo Medina Elected For Second Term In The Dominican Republic, Crosby Girã³N

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Police Station Attacked As Haiti’S Political Crisis Escalates, George Rodrã­Guez Jun 2016

Police Station Attacked As Haiti’S Political Crisis Escalates, George Rodrã­Guez

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Ideology, Access, And Status: Spanish-English Bilinguals In The Foreign-Language Classroom, Michael E. Rolland Jun 2016

Ideology, Access, And Status: Spanish-English Bilinguals In The Foreign-Language Classroom, Michael E. Rolland

Graduate Student Publications and Research

Spanish language teaching in US higher education is today generally divided between ‘foreign language’ courses for novice learners and ‘heritage language’ courses for Hispanic/Latinx students with some knowledge of the language. However, ‘heritage’ students are a linguistically diverse group, and are also often enrolled at institutions where heritage courses are not offered. Little research to date has studied ‘heritage’ speakers enrolled in ‘foreign’ language courses. For this study I conducted semi-structured interviews to explore the affective and ideological characteristics of bilingual students enrolled in elementary Spanish courses. As the literature suggests, I find that these students have a generally low …


Officials Inaugurate Solar-Powered System For Wastewater Treatment Plant In Sonora, Carlos Navarro Jun 2016

Officials Inaugurate Solar-Powered System For Wastewater Treatment Plant In Sonora, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Traducciones De Documentos De Los Programas Que Ofrece United Way Del Condado De San Luis Obispo, Courtney Helena Connor Jun 2016

Traducciones De Documentos De Los Programas Que Ofrece United Way Del Condado De San Luis Obispo, Courtney Helena Connor

World Languages and Cultures

The intent of this project is to translate various documents used by the United Way of San Luis Obispo County from English to Spanish. Due to the large number of native Spanish-speakers in San Luis Obispo County, there is a great need for information about community resources to be available in Spanish. Due to the nature of languages having many dialects, a significant amount of research was put into determining the dialect and word choice for the translations. Factors considered included region, educational level, socioeconomic status, etc. The translation was completed using a form of Spanish that sought to avoid …


La Bienvenida (Grades 7-9), Merida Elizondo Jun 2016

La Bienvenida (Grades 7-9), Merida Elizondo

Understanding by Design: Complete Collection

This unit is designed to be taught near the beginning of the year. In this unit, students will explore what it takes to learn another language. The unit focuses on language learning through repetition, practice, and observation. This unit was designed to be taught within the scope and sequence of Holt Spanish 1 ¡Exprésate!, but can be used without access to the source materials. At the end of the unit students will have a better understanding of the repetition and practice it takes to learn another language. They will also have built up their presentational speaking skills by leading the …


¿Quieres Ir Conmigo? (6th-7th Grade - Spanish), Jaclyn K. Metcalf Jun 2016

¿Quieres Ir Conmigo? (6th-7th Grade - Spanish), Jaclyn K. Metcalf

Understanding by Design: Complete Collection

This unit focuses on how students spend free time and comparing and contrasting free time in different cultures. It is intended to be taught in the middle of a Spanish I course. Students will understand that 1) Free time activities enjoyed by young people are often similar despite differences in culture, and that 2) Experiences can change for an individual when shared with someone else and a shared experience can affect relationships between people. By the end of the unit, students will be able to 1. talk about what I/others do and where I/others go in free time, 2.extend an …


Indigenous Communities Attempt To Halt Construction Of Massive Hydroelectric Facility In Chiapas, Carlos Navarro Jun 2016

Indigenous Communities Attempt To Halt Construction Of Massive Hydroelectric Facility In Chiapas, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Psychometrically Equivalent Bisyllabic Word Lists For Spanish Pediatric Word Recognition Testing, Brenda Karina Peterson Jun 2016

Psychometrically Equivalent Bisyllabic Word Lists For Spanish Pediatric Word Recognition Testing, Brenda Karina Peterson

Theses and Dissertations

While recorded speech audiometry materials have been developed in Spanish for adults, currently there are no speech audiometry materials available in Spanish that are suitable for a pediatric population. Thus, the purposes of this study were (a) to analyze Spanish bisyllabic words previously developed for adults to determine the words' appropriateness when testing word recognition scores in native Spanish-speaking children and (b) to compare the logistic regressions results from the Spanish adult data obtained in a previous study with the logistic regressions from Spanish pediatric data obtained in the present study. Using common-use children's dictionaries in the Spanish language, a …


La Cultura De Deseos Y Necesidades (7th-12th Grade), Haley Hansen Jun 2016

La Cultura De Deseos Y Necesidades (7th-12th Grade), Haley Hansen

Understanding by Design: Complete Collection

This unit is designed for the middle of the school year in a Spanish 1 classroom. The unit focuses on reviewing previously learned vocabulary including school supplies and activities while adding the present tense verbs "tengo," "quiero," and "necesito." Students will be exposed to information about and images of classrooms around the world to show how wants and needs differ by culture. At the end of the unit, students will have two Performance-Based Assessments- an interpersonal conversation about what they want to do and need to do and an integrated writing assessment comparing wants and needs in their school to …


The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking Multifarious Prose Performance, Alex Avila Jun 2016

The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking Multifarious Prose Performance, Alex Avila

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking is a collection of multifarious prose performances recounting the historical, personal, social, political and cultural constructs of a city birthed by violence. This body of work is accompanied by video, audio, photography, and theatre performance texts. St. Mary’s Housing project, in the Bronx, is the foundation where most of this literary work takes place. The modern day Griot (storyteller) is a Poet, guiding his audience through the social inequalities and disparities that plague St. Mary’s community. The Poet shares personal traumatic insights while simultaneously utilizing writing as a form of survival to the conditions …


Effect Of Proficiency Level On The Neural Responses Of Students Learning Spanish As A Second Language, Haley West May 2016

Effect Of Proficiency Level On The Neural Responses Of Students Learning Spanish As A Second Language, Haley West

Celebration of Learning

This study examines the effect of Second Language proficiency on the hemispheres of the brain. This will tell us if and how the brain processes a second language differently. Comparisons explore English versus Spanish listening tasks, and right versus left hemisphere activation in students with varying proficiencies in the Spanish program at Augustana. This is one of the first experiments to use the new in-house electroencephalography (EEG) technology in the Augustana neuroscience program.


Paraguay Protests Highlight Small Farmers' Concerns, Andrã©S Gaudã­N May 2016

Paraguay Protests Highlight Small Farmers' Concerns, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Results Of Peru’S Presidential Election Could Mean Freedom For Imprisoned Dictator, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A May 2016

Results Of Peru’S Presidential Election Could Mean Freedom For Imprisoned Dictator, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


El Salvador Takes €˜Extraordinary Measures’ To Tackle Gang Violence, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar May 2016

El Salvador Takes €˜Extraordinary Measures’ To Tackle Gang Violence, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Oas Anticorruption Forces Focus On Honduras, George Rodrã­Guez May 2016

Oas Anticorruption Forces Focus On Honduras, George Rodrã­Guez

NotiCen

No abstract provided.


Conflict Resurfaces Between Teachers Union And Administration Over Education Reforms, Carlos Navarro May 2016

Conflict Resurfaces Between Teachers Union And Administration Over Education Reforms, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


President Proposes Changes To Constitution To Allow Gay Marriage Throughout Mexico, Carlos Navarro May 2016

President Proposes Changes To Constitution To Allow Gay Marriage Throughout Mexico, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.


Ecuador Accused Of Boosting Taxes To Cover Costs Of Earthquake Damage, Luis ÁNgel Saavedra May 2016

Ecuador Accused Of Boosting Taxes To Cover Costs Of Earthquake Damage, Luis ÁNgel Saavedra

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Activists Killed, Harassed Across Latin America, Andrã©S Gaudã­N May 2016

Activists Killed, Harassed Across Latin America, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.


Withering Drought Hurting Farmers, Fish Industry In Nicaragua, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar May 2016

Withering Drought Hurting Farmers, Fish Industry In Nicaragua, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiCen

No abstract provided.