This small-scale study analyzes the use of service-learning pedagogy via non-profit translation in the intermediate-level language classroom. Forty-three students at the intermediate-high level in three Spanish classes in Greensburg, Pennsylvania served as part of a translation team for the non-profit organization Kiva, which helps to fund microentrepreneurs throughout the Spanish-speaking world. This current study discusses theories of service-learning pedagogy, exploring how social networking and online collaborations can allow more students access to the benefits of service-learning, particularly those students studying in isolated regions with limited Spanish-speaking populations. This study also includes an analysis of student translations and student reflections and responses to the experience. Student work product demonstrates the promise of online collaborations for improving motivation as well as cultural and linguistic competence for students in regions with limited access to Spanish-speaking communities.
This essay focuses on two Moroccan immigrant authors whose recent works provide insights into transnational feminisms in contemporary poetry and narrative. Najat El Hachmi's Mare de llet i mel (2018) and Lamiae El Amrani's Poesía femenina y sociedad (2010) highlight Moroccan women's collective voices through poetic storytelling and contribute to the contemporary transnational feminist movement. This study analyzes the two works and comments on contemporary feminist and poetic theory as they relate to transnational Peninsular feminism and to the future of Moroccan literature written in Castilian and Catalan. Both authors avoid the pitfalls of certain third-wave, transnational, feminist stances by focusing on the collective voices of Moroccan women and by emphasizing the oral poetic traditions of Moroccan culture and how such forms uniquely communicate transnational feminist perspectives, particularly in the context of global migrations.
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