Victor Emanuel Ciuciuc

• Teaching Associate at University of Bucharest

Sin duda alguna, hay pocos problemas en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de la lengua española que representen una dificultad tan grande como es el modo subjuntivo. Es por ello por lo que, el valor y los usos del subjuntivo han sido objeto de numerosos estudios no solo en el ámbito hispánico, sino en todas las diversas lenguas que poseen tal mod...

This paper is aimed at offering the Shanghai International Studies Uni-versity (SISU) a didactic syllabus in Spanish American Literature based on the precepts of communicative teaching to Chinese university stu-dents. To this end, we will carry out a bibliographical review of the points that we consider essential for the development of a curriculum...

In the United States, Spanish courses frequently include heritage learners – students who grow up speaking or hearing Spanish at home but may not fully develop proficiency. Teaching these students presents unique challenges, particularly regarding which linguistic variety to teach. Spanish encompasses many regional and social varieties, each with d...

This paper presents a literature review that investigates the attitudes towards minority and non-official languages in Spain, such as Aranese, Asturian, Basque, Catalan, Valencian, and Galician, which play an important role in shaping regional identities and cultural expressions. The research methodology involved a comprehensive examination of prev...

The study investigates the use of Spanish phase periphrases in the discourse of Romanians living in Spain with the objective of establishing a possible connection between their educational background in Spanish and their use of periphrases. In order to make the correlation, 24 native speakers of Romanian (of whom 10 children and 14 adults) were rec...

The article contributes to the field of research that focuses on affective factors impacting L2 learning and, more precisely, on language attitudes, by observing the attitudes of 22 Spanish students from the Complutense University of Madrid towards the Chinese-speaking population studying at the same university. The Chinese students there represent...

This paper will present one of the Nativist Theories in Second Language Acquisition, the Universal Grammar theory formulated by Noam Chomsky (1959), since it is one of the most known and (at that time) revolutionary acquisition theories. It is also the theory which represented the foundations of generative grammar and the starting point for other p...

"This paper focuses on one of the latest and much integrated subdomains of linguistics – pragmatics – with the objective of bringing forward a proposal on teaching the commissive speech acts (promises and threats) expressed through modal verbal units. This is meant to help students internalize this linguistic function, which will, in turn aid them...

A flipped classroom is just one of the many innovative teaching methods that have been recently used by foreign language teachers, as it allows them to focus on task-based learning in class, while the more theoretical part of the lesson is done by students at home through interactive tools. Hence, this paper aims to propose a teaching project which...

The paper discusses the effects of watching American vlogs on L3 English learners whose L1 is Romanian and L2 German, as it aims to determine whether the use of L2 has any influence on the use and understanding of the pragmatic marker ‘like’ after contact with informal exposure coming from vlogs. In order to approach this issue, the study first pre...

Lately, student’s motivation in the classroom has been marked as a prominent topic within the field of linguistics, due to its impact on the overall performance of the learner. The motivational framework proposed by Dörnyei (1994) represents one of the main models that included this affective learning factor and stands as foundation of the present...