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...
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’...
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...
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...
Álvaro Acosta Corte, University of Leicester INTRODUCTION This article evaluates the current research landscape regarding heritage speakers of Spanish. It intends to review and critically assess the literature and the current research trends and methods in this...