The Influence of Language Brokering on Hispanic Teenagers' Acculturation, Academic Performance, and Nonverbal Decoding Skills: A Preliminary Study

Acoach, C. Leah; Webb, Lynne M.

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“…La correlación positiva hallada en este estudio entre la puntuación total en la escala y el nivel de éxito académico, es concordante con los resultados obtenidos por Rosenthal et al (1979), así como con otras investigaciones que han puesto de manifiesto que los sujetos con altas capacidades de sensibilidad interpersonal son más exitosos en el desempeño de sus tareas profesionales (Hall, Bernieri, Carney, 2005;Hall y Halberstadt, 1994;Hall, Murphy y Mast, 2006;Schmid Mast, Jonas y Hall, 2009); por otra parte, estos sujetos están más adaptados y son mejor valorados por sus compañeros y profesores durante sus estudios elementales (Konold, Jamison, Stanton-Chapman y Rimm-Kaufman, 2010), medios (Acoach y Webb, 2004) y universitarios (Hall, Roter, Blanch y Frankel, 2009).…”

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Adaptación española de la versión reducida multicanal del Perfil de Sensibilidad No Verbal (MiniPONS)

2013

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Resumen: En este trabajo se presenta la adaptación española de la versión reducida multicanal del Perfil de Sensibilidad No Verbal (MiniPONS) (Bänziger, Scherer, Hall y Rosenthal, 2011). Esta escala evalúa las diferencias individuales en la habilidad para reconocer emociones, actitudes interpersonales y comunicación de intenciones por canales no verbales. Esta versión multicanal reducida está compuesta por 64 estímulos no verbales de vídeo y/o audio que representan a una mujer en blanco y negro. El principal objetivo de este estudio es analizar las propiedades psicométricas del MiniPONS empleando para ello una amplia muestra de participantes (N = 1154) de entre 18 a 60 años, también se examinaron las diferencias en la sensibilidad no verbal en función del sexo y la edad. Se presentan los valores normativos, la fiabilidad y validez en tres estudios con 168, 254 y 1154 estudiantes universitarios. Los resultados muestran que las mujeres obtienen mejores puntuaciones en todas las condiciones estimulares, éstas no sólo procesan más eficientemente información emocional no verbal por canales unisensoriales (rostro, cuerpo, voz), si no que también la integran mejor. Los resultados indican que la versión española del MiniPONS presenta unas propiedades psicométricas similares a la escala original, mostrando moderada consistencia interna y fiabilidad test-retest, así como también una razonable validez convergente obtenida en las correlaciones con otras pruebas que evalúan la capacidad de reconocimiento emocional. Se concluye que la versión española del MiniPONS es un instrumento que evalúa adecuadamente la sensibilidad no verbal. Se discuten las limitaciones y potencial utilidad de la escala. Palabras clave: Sensibilidad no verbal, reconocimiento emocional, expresión facial, prosodia emocional, evaluación, alexitimia, inteligencia emocional.Title: The Spanish version of the short multichannel version of the Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity (MiniPONS). Abstract: The Spanish version of the MiniPONS (Bänziger, Scherer, Hall y Rosenthal, 2011), the short version multichannel of the Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity (PONS), is presented. This scale was designed to measure individual differences in the ability to recognize emotions, interpersonal attitudes, and communicative intentions in nonverbal channels. This short multichannel version is composed of 64 items nonverbal audio and/or visual scenes portrayed by a female in black and white color. The main aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of MiniPONS using a large sample of university students (N = 1154) aged 18-60, this study also examined gender and age differences in nonverbal sensitivity. Normative data, reliability and validity were examined in three studies with 168, 254, and 1154 university students. The Spanish version of the MiniPONS has psychometric properties similar to those of the original version, the MiniPONS had moderate internal consistency and test-retest reliability, and shows reasonable convergent validity through significant correla...

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Adaptación española de la versión reducida multicanal del Perfil de Sensibilidad No Verbal (MiniPONS)

2013

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“…Studies that have focused on the effects of CLB on the educational and psychological development of language brokers Dorner et al 2007;McQuillan and Tse 1995;Weisskirch and Alva 2002) have shown that when child language brokers are required to take on responsibilities in situations in which adults would normally be in control they may experience mixed feelings and perceive CLB either/both as a cause of stress and a burden and/or an experience that they find enjoyable (Cohen et al 1999;Hall and Robinson 1999;Parke and Buriel 1998;Suárez-Orozco and Suárez-Orozco 2001;Weisskirch 2007) and which they are proud to undertake (Love and Buriel 2007), but also, as Pimentel and Sevin (2009) point out, a practice with a positive impact in terms of academic achievement (Dorner et al 2007), developmental outcomes (Halgunseth 2003), cognitive and metalinguistic abilities (Acoach and Webb 2004;Orellana and Reynolds 2008) and bilingual/bicultural development (Acoach and Webb 2004;Buriel et al 1998;Tse 1996). Research has also shown that by taking on such responsibilities and by mediating linguistically on a regular (often daily) basis, these children may develop cognitive, social and sociolinguistic skills in advance and more rapidly as compared to children who do not language broker (Morales and Hanson 2005;Shannon 1990).…”

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Caught in the middle: child language brokering as a form of unrecognised language service

Antonini

2016

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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“…Most language brokering research focuses on bilingual children or adolescents brokering between language minority group 'insiders' and majority group 'outsiders', finding that child language brokers have more power and responsibility than children are traditionally believed to have, and that brokers become bicultural to adapt to 'competing demands of two cultural worlds' (Weisskirch and Alva 2002: 2). However, non-professional interpreting is still poorly understood, and Acoach and Webb (2004) and Weisskirch and Alva (2002) call for an exploration of the impact of language brokering on family language use. However, non-professional interpreting is still poorly understood, and Acoach and Webb (2004) and Weisskirch and Alva (2002) call for an exploration of the impact of language brokering on family language use.…”

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Once a broker, always a broker: Non-professional interpreting as identity accomplishment in multigenerational Italian–English bilingual family interaction

Torto

2008

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This paper explores interpreting in three-generational ItalianϪEnglish bilingual families as a complex language brokering activity. Recent studies approach non-professional interpreting as language brokering in which bilinguals (often children) interpret for non-bilinguals (adults) in institutional settings (Hall 2004;Valdés 2003). These studies focus on brokering between minority group 'insiders' and majority group 'outsiders'. My research extends these approaches, focusing on brokering in ItalianϪEnglish bilingual family meal-time conversations. Second-generation family members have served as interpreters for their parents in institutional contexts since migrating as children over fifty years ago. They extend this practice to the family context, brokering between first-and third-generation family members in two ways. Triggered interpreting occurs when speakers verbally request clarification or when second-generation family members perceive conversational sequence problems. Non-triggered interpreting is neither requested nor sequentially triggered. Second-generation family members report playing an intermediary role unifying flanking generations. They act to bridge perceived linguistic and cultural gaps between their Italian-dominant immigrant parents and their English-dominant Canadian/US-born children. Interpretation in multi-generational conversations is one way through which these bridging roles and identities are accomplished locally in mundane interaction. The analysis includes an examination of spontaneous conversational data and participants' metacommentary and retrospective accounts of language brokering.

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The Influence of Language Brokering on Hispanic Teenagers' Acculturation, Academic Performance, and Nonverbal Decoding Skills: A Preliminary Study

Cited by 66 publications

References 51 publications

Adaptación española de la versión reducida multicanal del Perfil de Sensibilidad No Verbal (MiniPONS)

Adaptación española de la versión reducida multicanal del Perfil de Sensibilidad No Verbal (MiniPONS)

Caught in the middle: child language brokering as a form of unrecognised language service

Once a broker, always a broker: Non-professional interpreting as identity accomplishment in multigenerational Italian–English bilingual family interaction

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