Elisa Gironzetti

University of Maryland, College Park | UMD, UMCP, University of Maryland College Park · Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Este estudio presenta los resultados de una metasíntesis cualitativa de las publicaciones de corte pedagógico en el campo de la enseñanza del español como lengua de herencia (ELH). El objetivo de la metasíntesis es proporcionar a educadores e investigadores una panorámica de la investigación pedagógica sobre el ELH en su estado actual e identificar...

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching: metodologías, contextos y recursos para la enseñanza del español L2 provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the main methodologies, contexts and resources in Spanish Language Teaching (SLT), a field that has experienced significant growth world-wide in recent decades and has consoli...

Teacher training programs and models recognize research engagement as a key competency of qualified professionals. However, despite current calls from scholars to bridge the divide between research and practice in second language teaching, little is known about how teaching professionals engage with existing research or carry out their own research...

The Smiling Intensity Scale (SIS, Gironzetti, Pickering, Huang, Zhang, Menjo & Attardo, 2016) is a holistic FACS-based instrument developed for the study of smiling. The SIS comprises 5 different levels of smiling classified based on their visual properties (e.g., showing of teeth) and underlying muscle activation (e.g., the presence of AU 12; see...

This paper builds on a novel methodology of lexical semantics exemplified on lexical field theory by using several translations of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The present study, a large-scale collaboration, presents and compares the results for laugh, smile, grin, giggle, and other words for laughter behaviors across 14 languages a...

En los últimos 30 años hemos asistido a un creciente interés investigador hacia el español como lengua de herencia (ELH), motivado por importantes cambios demográficos que afectaron —sobre todo, aunque no exclusivamente— a los EE.UU. Este interés se ha manifestado también en el ámbito de la lingüística de corpus con la elaboración y el análisis de...

In response to the growth of Spanish heritage language (SHL) learners in the United States, researchers and instructors in the field of SHL teaching proposed a set of goals and pedagogical approaches to meet these learners’ needs. However, because few studies focused on SHL teachers’ professional preparation and practice, it is unclear whether thes...

El objetivo de este capítulo es ofrecer una descripción general de los enfoques, métodos y resultados de las investigaciones centradas en aspectos pragmáticos del español como lengua de herencia (ELH). Para ello, se consideran diferentes fenómenos pragmáticos y su relación con cuestiones de uso del lenguaje oral y escrito, variación dialectal, gene...

Interactional humor is a negotiated activity in which conversational partners co-construct humor during the interaction and, by doing so, display features of a shared joking style. This chapter looks at spontaneous conversational humor (jablines and ironic comments) as a type of contingent, emergent, and co-constructed discourse to which conversati...

Student enrollment and interest in online university courses (or hybrid courses that have an online component) has grown exponentially in the United States in recent years (Allen & Seaman, 2006, 2008; Chen et al., 2010). This has led to the expectation that teachers integrate an online component into their courses (Salaway & Caruso, 2008). While th...

The goal of this chapter is to present the characteristics, results, and applications of eye-tracking for researching pragmatics. Due to the limited number of studies in this area, and the almost nonexistent contributions focusing specifically on pragmatic features of Spanish, the chapter adopts a broad view that could set the stage for further lan...

En esta sección temática de RNAEL se presentan los resultados de proyectos recientes o en progreso de innovación curricular en varios contextos académicos, institucionales y geográficos. Todos estos proyectos se definen, en líneas generales, por (a) la voluntad de adaptar o ajustar las pautas de los modelos curriculares citados en el párrafo anteri...

Los cambios socioeconómicos, culturales y tecnológicos de los últimos años han contribuido a que muchos profesionales del español como lengua segunda o extranjera (L2) trabajen en diversos contextos, con un alumnado con múltiples perfiles y necesidades, por medio de distintos formatos de enseñanza y bajo mayores expectativas de carácter institucion...

En este capítulo se describen los pasos esenciales del proceso de selección y elaboración de materiales didácticos para la enseñanza del español como L2 a partir del aprendizaje significativo. En primer lugar, explicamos cómo este enfoque, uno de los modelos teóricos que potencia un aprendizaje eficaz y tiene en cuenta la dimensión cognitiva del al...

For a multilingual author, deciding in which language to publish an academic paper is a political choice. Not only is it linked to considerations such as career advancement and reaching the widest readership, it also touches on social and ideological questions, such as the preservation of languages, identities, cultures, and patterns of thinking an...

En este capítulo se exploran los desafíos y posibilidades que presenta el creciente número de hablantes de herencia de español en diversas regiones del mundo, especialmente en los Estados Unidos y, más recientemente, en Europa. A partir de la integración de diferentes definiciones, se describen las características que diferencian a los hablantes de...

Las tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación (TIC) facilitan e incrementan el contacto y la exposición de los aprendices de español como segunda lengua (L2) al caudal lingüístico, y les brindan múltiples oportunidades para la expresión e interacción oral. Sin embargo, para potenciar el desarrollo de la destreza oral de cualquier nivel es...

The present article is part of a larger cross-cultural research project on speaker-hearer smiling behavior in humorous and non-humorous conversations in American English and French. The American corpus consists of eight computer-mediated interactions between English native speakers, and the French one consists of four face-to-face interactions betw...

This study investigates the function of smiling intensity as a non-discrete marker of humor in conversation. The smiling intensity of participants in eight conversational dyads was measured relative to the occurrence of humorous and non-humorous events in the conversation. A relationship was found between higher smiling intensity and the occurrence...

Esta ponencia presenta los resultados de una encuesta nacional sobre el perfil docente de los instructores de español como lengua de herencia (ELH) en los Estados Unidos. Los datos recolectados permiten comprender quiénes son los instructores de ELH en relación con las siguientes áreas: su experiencia profesional como docentes de lengua, su formaci...

According to the Census Bureau, the Hispanic population in the United States reached 56.5 million in 2015, making Hispanics the nation’s largest minority (17%) and ranking second worldwide in size. About 60% of the Hispanic population was U.S. born, and 73% spoke Spanish at home (Krogstad & Lopez, 2017). As a result, the growth of Spanish Heritage...

This article focuses on the curriculum redesign of a Spanish for Heritage Language Learners course sequence, and presents the results of two complementary studies: a) a pilot study on metaknowledge and management of strategies in the linguistic, socio-affective, and cognitive dimensions (Oxford, 2011; White et al., 2007; Wenden, 1998) among Spanish...

Esta ponencia presenta una metasíntesis cualitativa de las propuestas pedagógicas actuales para la enseñanza de ELH con el objetivo de proporcionar a educadores e investigadores una panorámica de la disciplina en su estado actual. El estudio identifica las tendencias, los enfoques pedagógicos y el papel de las diferentes destrezas y componentes lin...

This chapter provides an overview of existing studies on markers of humor, including prosody, laughter, and other paralinguistic phenomena, such as smiling, ranging from Sacks’ pioneer study on the telling of a joke, to recent experimental studies on the prosodic markers of humor in conversation, to the role of laughter and other multimodal cues as...

This study focuses on the degree of correlation between speakers’ smiling timing and intensity. Different smiling patterns displayed by participants are described, starting with the most frequent. The smiling patterns were sampled at a rate of 17 milliseconds and are visualized as line graphs to represent how each participant’s smiling intensity ch...

This workshop introduces a set of tools and methods to perform a multimodal analysis of humor in spoken discourse. The hands-on approach will provide the attendees with practical materials, templates, and procedures to perform methodologically sound analyses. No prior knowledge assumed. All materials included.

Advancing writing skills in Spanish is a common goal among Spanish heritage learners (Belpoliti & Gironzetti, forthcoming; Hedgcock & Lefkowitz, 2011), who evaluate their own production as poor, incomplete, or lacking (see Camus & Adrada-Rafael, 2015; Carreira & Kagan, 2011). Since the early beginnings of Spanish heritage language (SHL) pedagogy, w...

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This study presents the preliminary results of the analysis of written texts produced by Spanish Heritage Language Learners (SHLL) in Spanish after a two-semester long program at TAMUC (Belpoliti & Gironzetti, forthcoming). The program aimed at: (1) advancing literacy in Spanish, (2) increasing management of academic registers, and (3) providing th...

Participants in face-to-face interactions rely on visual as well as verbal clues to coordinate and accomplish collaborative actions (Clark, 1996), and may use, for example, smile and laughter to signal that a certain utterance should be interpreted in a humorous way (Clark, 1996: 370). Research has shown that, contrary to what folk theories of humo...

The study of smiling has been traditionally approached from two contrasting models: a model that focuses on smiling as an emotion-expressing behavior (Ekman, Davidson, & Friesen, 1990; Ekman, Rolls, Perrett, & Ellis, 1992), and a model that focuses on the communicative function of smiling in social interaction (Fridlung, 1994, but see also Messinge...

This paper addresses whether and how humor is performed in conversation by analyzing facial expressions and gaze patterns of speakers engaged in dyadic face-to-face interaction. For the purpose of this study, pragmatic intentions are defined as arising and being negotiated by speakers in interaction, rather than existing a priori and being simply i...

This present article is part of a larger study on speaker-hearer allocation of attentional resources in face-to-face interactions. The goal of the paper is twofold: first, we present results concerning the degree of correlation, in computer-mediated conversation, between speaker’s timing and intensity of smiling when humor is either present or abse...

This paper analyzes the development of metaknowledge in linguistic, sociocultural, and cognitive dimensions of Spanish Heritage Learners after two semesters of instruction. The curriculum integrated a modular approach to develop metalinguistic awareness, rhetorical sensibility and expansion of meta‐strategies. Analysis of students’ production indic...

This paper presents a series of theoretical and methodological choices against previous research and innovations for practical structuralist lexical field studies. Starting from a critical literature review of relevant work, it develops a synchronic interlingual study of the lexico-semantic field around words for laugh, smile, grin, etc. in an alig...

Review of The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics (Lacorte, ed., 2014)

This study focuses on the multimodal conversational markers of eye gaze and smiling in conversation. Specifically, it explores the role of smiling as a significant device in verbal communication (Attardo et al, 2013) by utilizing eye-tracking array technology and a smiling intensity scale based on FACS (Ekman and Friesen 1978). In the first part of...

En el mercado editorial de español como lengua extranjera escasean los libros de texto de expresión oral de niveles C1-C2. Una de las razones por las que resulta difícil encontrar este tipo de manuales tiene que ver con el hecho de que a menudo se asume que cuando los estudiantes de lenguas extranjeras llegan a estos niveles, ya no necesitan hacer...

Se compone de: - Una selección de entrevistas con personajes pertenecientes a diversos ámbitos culturales que sirven de punto de partida, como material de aprendizaje y como modelos auténticos de expresión oral en el uso de la lengua. - Un repertorio de funciones y de estrategias comunicativas para la expresión e interacción orales propias del niv...

En esta guía metodológica, el profesor encontrará diferentes sugerencias y comentarios sobre la explotación didáctica de las actividades del libro. En los comentarios de las actividades se proporcionan, además de información de tipo sociocultural, diferentes pautas sobre cómo integrar la gramática del dosier en cada uno de los temas. En algunas uni...

El análisis contrastivo, nacido en el seno de la corriente estructuralista y orientado a enfocar los efectos producidos por las diferencias entre las estructuras de la primera lengua (L1) y la lengua extranjera o segunda lengua (LE/L2) en el transcurso del aprendizaje, es un instrumento de estudio de las lenguas que se basa en la comparación sistem...

Humour, together with poetry and metaphors, is one of the most difficult aspects of human language a translator can encounter. However, humour is part of our daily lives in many different shapes and formats, graphic jokes being one of those. The aim of this paper is to show the results of a study, based on a corpus of 100 Italian and Spanish graphi...

L'articolo, dopo aver presentato le più avanzate ricerche di carattere pragmalinguistico che hanno contribuito a definire la "competenza umoristica" come una specifica abilità linguistico-comunicativa, invita a considerare l'umorismo come uno strumento valido ed efficace per rendere la lezione di italiano per stranieri un momento di apprendimento,...

The aim of this workshop is to illustrate the possibilities of the integration of the Verbo-Tonal Method (VTM), the articulatory phonetics and the communicative approach in Spanish as Foreign Language class for the teaching of pronunciation. The activities, created by members of the group ¡Pronuncia bien!, are based on the results of an exhaustive...