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Pronunciation Instruction Can Improve L2 Learners' Bottom-Up Processing For Listening, Elizabeth M. Kissling
Pronunciation Instruction Can Improve L2 Learners' Bottom-Up Processing For Listening, Elizabeth M. Kissling
Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications
Listening is widely regarded as an important skill that is difficult and necessary to teach in L2 classrooms. Listening requires both top-down and bottom-up processing, yet pedagogical techniques for the latter are often lacking. This study explores the efficacy of pronunciation instruction (PI) for improving learners’ bottom-up processing. The study recruited 116 relatively novice learners of Spanish as a foreign language and provided the experimental groups with brief lessons in PI emphasizing segmental or suprasegmental features followed by production-focused or perception-focused practice. Learners’ bottom-up processing skill was assessed with a sentence-level dictation task. Learners given PI on suprasegmental features followed …
De Crepusculares Y Garotas Modernas: Las Columnas Travestidas De Alfonsina Storni Y Clarice Lispector, Mariela Méndez
De Crepusculares Y Garotas Modernas: Las Columnas Travestidas De Alfonsina Storni Y Clarice Lispector, Mariela Méndez
Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications
Este artículo se propone resaltar el gesto transgresor de Alfonsina Storni y Clarice Lispector, oponiéndolo al de Alejo Carpentier, a partir de la travestización que cada una realiza de un espacio discursivo tan altamente codificado, estructurado, como arguye Dulcília Schroeder Buitoni, en torno a la tríada moda/casa/corazón (Imprensa Feminina 15). Entendiendo al acto travesti como la performance sobreactuada de lo que culturalmente es etiquetado como femenino o masculino, el análisis revela las formas en que Storni y Lispector instauran una voz y una mirada que se adelantan a las teorías contemporáneas sobre el carácter performativo del género. Las columnas de …
An Exploratory Study Of Heritage Spanish Rhotics: Addressing Methodological Challenges Of Heritage Language Phonetics Research, Elizabeth M. Kissling
An Exploratory Study Of Heritage Spanish Rhotics: Addressing Methodological Challenges Of Heritage Language Phonetics Research, Elizabeth M. Kissling
Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications
When speaking their heritage language, heritage speakers typically sound much like other “native speakers.” However, recent studies have found that heritage speakers (HSs) are highly variable and produce a range of more and less “native-like” phonetic features. In an effort to stimulate productive new research in this area, this article addresses some of the methodological challenges of heritage language phonetics research, namely dealing with high variability and identifying the best predictors of that variability. A study on heritage Spanish rhotics is presented to elucidate those methodological challenges. The study took an exploratory, bottom-up approach to analyzing the rhotics produced by …
Género Sobre Género. Vestimenta, Cuerpo Y Trabajo Doméstico En El Cine De Manuel Romero, Karina Elizabeth Vázquez
Género Sobre Género. Vestimenta, Cuerpo Y Trabajo Doméstico En El Cine De Manuel Romero, Karina Elizabeth Vázquez
Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications
La vestimenta ocupa un lugar de privilegio en el estudio de las representaciones visuales y de los artefactos de consumo como textos culturales. Es una herramienta central de las corporalidades sobre las que se edifican las identidades sociales, puesto que la vestimenta cataliza las relaciones entre las representaciones impuestas por los que poseen los medios para significar y las que produce cada comunidad a partir del acceso a esos mismos medios. De este modo, las industrias culturales, especialmente el cine, la radio y la prensa vehiculizan figuraciones que mediante la publicidad y el consumo son apropiadas y resignificadas por los …