Gabriela Zapata
Biographic Data
| ID | 1531827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriela Zapata |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriela |
| FAMILY NAME | Zapata |
| SIGNATURE | ZAPATA G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Effects of Community Service Learning Projects on L2 Learners' Cultural Understanding
This small-scale study investigates the effects of community service learning (CSL) projects or a cultural presentation on the development of the cultural understanding of low- and high-intermediate L2 students. Fifty-two learners in four sections of two Spanish classes in Canada participated in the study. The participants also completed pre- and postquestionnaires which explored their attitudes towards the target language and culture. The result…
Semantic Categories and Context in L2 Vocabulary Learning
This article extends recent findings that presenting semantically related vocabulary simultaneously inhibits learning. It does so by adding story contexts. Participants learned 32 new labels for known concepts from four different semantic categories in stories that were either semantically related (one category per story) or semantically unrelated (four categories per story). They then completed a semantic-categorization task, followed by a stimu…
The Effects of Community Service Learning Projects on L2 Learners' Cultural Understanding
This small-scale study investigates the effects of community service learning (CSL) projects or a cultural presentation on the development of the cultural understanding of low- and high-intermediate L2 students. Fifty-two learners in four sections of two Spanish classes in Canada participated in the study. The participants also completed pre- and postquestionnaires which explored their attitudes towards the target language and culture. The result…
Semantic Categories and Context in L2 Vocabulary Learning
This article extends recent findings that presenting semantically related vocabulary simultaneously inhibits learning. It does so by adding story contexts. Participants learned 32 new labels for known concepts from four different semantic categories in stories that were either semantically related (one category per story) or semantically unrelated (four categories per story). They then completed a semantic-categorization task, followed by a stimu…
The Effects of Community Service Learning Projects on L2 Learners' Cultural Understanding
This small-scale study investigates the effects of community service learning (CSL) projects or a cultural presentation on the development of the cultural understanding of low- and high-intermediate L2 students. Fifty-two learners in four sections of two Spanish classes in Canada participated in the study. The participants also completed pre- and postquestionnaires which explored their attitudes towards the target language and culture. The result…
Semantic Categories and Context in L2 Vocabulary Learning
This article extends recent findings that presenting semantically related vocabulary simultaneously inhibits learning. It does so by adding story contexts. Participants learned 32 new labels for known concepts from four different semantic categories in stories that were either semantically related (one category per story) or semantically unrelated (four categories per story). They then completed a semantic-categorization task, followed by a stimu…
Linguistics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Categorization (1 works) · Cognitive psychology (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Context (archaeology) (1 works) · Cultural competence (1 works)