A new approach to controlled assessments: ‘Give them what they want, what they really really want’
Nisha Illingworth (Tile Hill Wood School, Coventry) PREMISE The introduction of the controlled assessment into GCSE Modern Languages has been one of the biggest challenges facing our departments in the last two years. Teachers are faced with strict time constraints in...
Some effects of cross-linguistic influence of Spanish as L2 on the perception and production of cognates in Portuguese as L3
Christine Guedri Giacalone (College of Saint Elizabeth, USA), Zachary F. Miller (United States Military Academy) INTRODUCTION When acquiring a new language a learner often searches for similarities from the first language (L1) to make connections with the second (L2)...
Aplicación de las imágenes mentales en la enseñanza de los tiempos verbales del pretérito perfecto simple y pretérito imperfecto y de las preposiciones ‘por’ y ‘para’
Manuel Morales (Maranatha Baptist Bible College, USA), Daniel J. Smith (Clemson University, USA) Introducción Se puede observar que ciertos errores de forma son muy comunes en el aprendizaje del español como segunda lengua, especialmente de los estudiantes...‘De La, la, la’ a ‘Made in Spain’: El festival de Eurovisión como mecanismo para enseñar la Transición demócratica española
Beatriz Gómez Acuña, John Taylor (Elmhurst College, USA) INTRODUCCIÓN ¿Cómo es la España del año 2013? Muchas personas contestarán esta pregunta usando adjetivos como pluralista, democrática, progresiva, liberal o globalizada. Sin duda, España es una sólida democracia...
‘Noticiario hispánico’: exploring Spanish press headlines in the classroom
John C. McIntyre (Glasgow) INTRODUCTION Though the trawl below takes a lot of preparation (around 40 hours per month of reading and editing), there are bonuses. From day to day and week to week a developing major issue allows constant reinforcement of the core...Noticiario
Mike Zollo (Totnes) ¡BIENVENIDOS AL NOTICIARIO! For this edition of Noticiario I had been amassing potential material for many months, having had little response in the past to my appeals for contributions from readers. As my father (also a teacher) used to say, ‘If...
How do you…? Use phonetics in the Spanish class?
Natalio Ormeño (Consejería de Educación en el Reino Unido) My interest in introducing phonetics and phonology in the language classroom began when I started teaching English as a foreign language in Spain. It made sense to me mainly because, given the ‘more phonemic’...Using wikis in the Spanish classroom
Ana Castiñeiras Ramos (Instituto Cervantes de Manchester) The term ‘wiki’ comes from Hawaiian and means ‘fast’. In contemporary usage a wiki is a website that allows users to add, modify and update content rapidly and easily. It is possible to access previous versions...
Goya’s Inquisition: from black legend to liberal legend
Helen Rawlings (University of Leicester) In the opening decades of the 19th century, Goya sketched around 39 ink wash drawings, collected in his Album C (c. 1814-24), that depict with dramatic intensity the corporal and psychological punishments inflicted on those...