La enseñanza del español en los Estados Unidos: panorama actual y perspectivas de futuro

Building a classroom discourse community in university Spanish courses: What high‐achieving language teachers do

“…The present study examined approaches to building a classroom discourse community by high‐achieving instructors of Spanish. It is known that enrollment in university‐level Spanish reflects its practicality and desirability in the job market (Lacorte & Suárez Garcia, 2014), thus approaches to instruction may be influenced by its utility. Therefore, studies of approaches to language teaching by high‐achieving teachers in other languages such as Chinese, Arabic, and Russian might examine the unique constructs of effective teaching practices under a different set of outcomes.…”

“…However, the guidelines do not promote any specific methodology as a route to meeting objectives, nor do they include other aspects of effective instruction, such as rich descriptions of teacher behaviors and classroom practices. Perhaps due to a wide range of conflicting theories in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and teaching practices, language teaching methodology in the United States is quite elastic (Lacorte & Suárez García, 2014). Pedagogical differences have bifurcated teaching practices into two camps: traditional methodologies that focus on form, and a range of communicative methodologies that give way to a wide interpretation of FL teaching.…”

It Works in Theory and in Practice: A practical guide for implementing a TBLT beginner course

“…Even though some highly motivated students may try to practice the tasks in the community, most language learners at this level generally display limited extrinsic motivation by simply wanting to enroll in the course in order to complete the language requirement (Lacorte & Suárez-García, 2014). Therefore, for most students, the tasks completed for this course represent the only opportunity to have realistic interactions in the target language in their everyday life.…”

Hablantes de herencia en un programa de inmersión: Diseño de herramientas de evaluación inicial

“…Como es sabido, una de las lenguas históricamente habladas en los hogares estadounidenses es el español y su presencia parece aumentar en cada censo que se realiza (Lacorte y Suárez García, 2014). Para dar respuesta a esta realidad social, los departamentos de español de las universidades estadounidenses llevan años diseñando programas de estudios específicos y adecuados a las necesidades de los HHs de español, sobre todo en aquellos estados con mayor presencia hispana, como pueden ser California, Nuevo México o Texas.…”