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50 Years of ERIC
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Carvalho, Ana M.; Freire, Juliana Luna; da Silva, Antonio J. B. – Hispania, 2010
Portuguese is the sixth-most-spoken native language in the world, with approximately 240,000,000 speakers. Within the United States, there is a growing demand for K-12 language programs to engage the community of Portuguese heritage speakers. According to the 2000 U.S. census, 85,000 school-age children speak Portuguese at home. As a result, more…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metalinguistics, Spanish Speaking
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Colomer, Soria Elizabeth – Hispania, 2010
This article is based on a qualitative study documenting how Spanish teachers, as some of the few Spanish-speaking educators in new Latino diaspora communities, bear an especially heavy burden as dual role interpreters and unofficial school representatives. Drawing from the semistructured interview data of twenty-six north Georgia educators, I…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Teachers, Translation, Teacher Role