U.S. Spanish on the Air: Good Waves for the Classroom?.

Rogers, Carmen Villegas; Medley, Frank W., Jr.

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Publication Date: 2001

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U.S. Spanish on the Air: Good Waves for the Classroom?

Rogers, Carmen Villegas; Medley, Frank W., Jr.

Foreign Language Annals, v34 n5 p426-38 Sep-Oct 2001

Suggests ways that authentic speech for Spanish-language broadcasts intended for Spanish-speaking audiences in the United States can be used in the classroom to present not only idealized speech of the so called "educated native speaker," but also dynamic and current models of interlocutors from many nations, interacting effectively as they transmit and receive information in the language. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Classroom Techniques, Language Variation, Native Speakers, Oral Language, Radio, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Spanish Speaking

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: United States

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