Gabriela C Zapata
Biographic Data
| ID | 5435587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriela C Zapata |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriela C |
| FAMILY NAME | Zapata |
| SIGNATURE | ZAPATA G C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3069-9866 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Lotería in the Age of Covid-19: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Two Artistic Visions
The purpose of this project was to compare two different COVID-19 Mexican lotería versions by Mexican-American artists Ernesto Quiñonez Curiel and Pinche Raf. Their work was inspired by the most popular traditional lotería set Don Clemente Gallo, created by Don Clemente Jacques in 1913. Social semiotics was employed in the analysis of the images and text in the two COVID-19 artistic renderings with the objective of discovering the similarities an…
Sprinting to the Finish Line: The Benefits and Challenges of Book Sprints in OER Faculty-Graduate Student Collaborations
This article investigates the results of a book sprint experience whose main objective was the development of instructional modules for an open textbook for the teaching of Spanish as a second language. Six graduate students at a public American university participated in the project for a week, working in pairs in the creation of activities that required the incorporation of the tenets of the dual pedagogical frameworks of performance- and liter…
L2 Spanish university students’ perceptions of the pedagogical benefits of culture portfolios
This article investigates the use of culture portfolios in second language Spanish university classes at an American private university as part of an innovation that incorporated an ACTFL standards-based curriculum to a basic language programme. The portfolios required students to complete different types of tasks through interactions with members of the Hispanic community in the area. The study examines novice high, intermediate low, and interme…
University Students' Perceptions of Integrated Performance Assessment and the Connection Between Classroom Learning and Assessment
In 2013, Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) was adopted at all levels of instruction at a private university in southern California. The study reports the opinions of 1,236 Novice, Intermediate Low, and Intermediate Mid Spanish students concerning IPA and their perceptions of the way in which classroom instruction was reflected in the content of those assessments. As a group, participants offered positive opinions of IPAs, although these var…
Psycholinguistic Approaches to Language Processing in Heritage Speakers
This paper focuses on the dearth of language-processing research addressing Spanish heritage speakers in assimilationist communities. First, we review key offline work on this population, and we then summarize the few psycholinguistic (online) studies that have already been carried out. In an attempt to encourage more such research, in the next section, we review the various techniques that psycholinguists commonly use in studies of language proc…
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…
Preservice and Inservice Instructors' Metaphorical Constructions of Second Language Teachers
This article describes the first part of a study that explores the metaphorical language used by 64 second language (L2) Spanish and English as a foreign language (EFL) pre‐ and inservice teaching assistants and instructors in their conceptualization of L2 teachers and students. The article investigates the philosophical perspective embedded in their discourse and differences based on experience, academic background, and culture. The results of t…
Contact and contracting Spanish
This investigation is inspired by an interest in the contact/contracting grammars of heritage speakers of Spanish who have experienced prolonged exposure to English in the United States and, in particular, what their linguistic performance reveals of their knowledge of lexical subclasses and discursive properties associated with ordering of sentential constituents in the Spanish language. Analysis of data obtained for 24 participants on diverse m…
Literature in L2 Spanish Classes: An Examination of Focus-on-Cultural Understanding
This paper investigates the development of L2 Spanish students’ cultural awareness through the teaching of literature by the application of the method Focus-on-Cultural Understanding. The paper partially reports on a one-semester study in which 17 intermediate L2 Spanish students at a state university in Midwestern US were exposed to a variety of literary texts produced in the target culture and were required to complete a series of Focus-on-Cult…
Choices: Writing Projects for Students of ESL
Choices: Writing Projects for Students of ESL is an appropriate option for low-intermediateand intermediate-level students in the pursuit of academic studies in the U.S. or in another English-speaking country. This textbook is oriented towards the development, through essay writing, of the appropriate writing competencies to function successfully in the English academic environment. Choices approaches writing as a process through which students a…
University Students' Perceptions of Integrated Performance Assessment and the Connection Between Classroom Learning and Assessment
In 2013, Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) was adopted at all levels of instruction at a private university in southern California. The study reports the opinions of 1,236 Novice, Intermediate Low, and Intermediate Mid Spanish students concerning IPA and their perceptions of the way in which classroom instruction was reflected in the content of those assessments. As a group, participants offered positive opinions of IPAs, although these var…
Preservice and Inservice Instructors' Metaphorical Constructions of Second Language Teachers
This article describes the first part of a study that explores the metaphorical language used by 64 second language (L2) Spanish and English as a foreign language (EFL) pre‐ and inservice teaching assistants and instructors in their conceptualization of L2 teachers and students. The article investigates the philosophical perspective embedded in their discourse and differences based on experience, academic background, and culture. The results of t…
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…
Choices: Writing Projects for Students of ESL
Choices: Writing Projects for Students of ESL is an appropriate option for low-intermediateand intermediate-level students in the pursuit of academic studies in the U.S. or in another English-speaking country. This textbook is oriented towards the development, through essay writing, of the appropriate writing competencies to function successfully in the English academic environment. Choices approaches writing as a process through which students a…
Contact and contracting Spanish
This investigation is inspired by an interest in the contact/contracting grammars of heritage speakers of Spanish who have experienced prolonged exposure to English in the United States and, in particular, what their linguistic performance reveals of their knowledge of lexical subclasses and discursive properties associated with ordering of sentential constituents in the Spanish language. Analysis of data obtained for 24 participants on diverse m…
Literature in L2 Spanish Classes: An Examination of Focus-on-Cultural Understanding
This paper investigates the development of L2 Spanish students’ cultural awareness through the teaching of literature by the application of the method Focus-on-Cultural Understanding. The paper partially reports on a one-semester study in which 17 intermediate L2 Spanish students at a state university in Midwestern US were exposed to a variety of literary texts produced in the target culture and were required to complete a series of Focus-on-Cult…
Preservice and Inservice Instructors' Metaphorical Constructions of Second Language Teachers
This article describes the first part of a study that explores the metaphorical language used by 64 second language (L2) Spanish and English as a foreign language (EFL) pre‐ and inservice teaching assistants and instructors in their conceptualization of L2 teachers and students. The article investigates the philosophical perspective embedded in their discourse and differences based on experience, academic background, and culture. The results of t…
Psycholinguistic Approaches to Language Processing in Heritage Speakers
This paper focuses on the dearth of language-processing research addressing Spanish heritage speakers in assimilationist communities. First, we review key offline work on this population, and we then summarize the few psycholinguistic (online) studies that have already been carried out. In an attempt to encourage more such research, in the next section, we review the various techniques that psycholinguists commonly use in studies of language proc…
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…
University Students' Perceptions of Integrated Performance Assessment and the Connection Between Classroom Learning and Assessment
In 2013, Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) was adopted at all levels of instruction at a private university in southern California. The study reports the opinions of 1,236 Novice, Intermediate Low, and Intermediate Mid Spanish students concerning IPA and their perceptions of the way in which classroom instruction was reflected in the content of those assessments. As a group, participants offered positive opinions of IPAs, although these var…
L2 Spanish university students’ perceptions of the pedagogical benefits of culture portfolios
This article investigates the use of culture portfolios in second language Spanish university classes at an American private university as part of an innovation that incorporated an ACTFL standards-based curriculum to a basic language programme. The portfolios required students to complete different types of tasks through interactions with members of the Hispanic community in the area. The study examines novice high, intermediate low, and interme…
Sprinting to the Finish Line: The Benefits and Challenges of Book Sprints in OER Faculty-Graduate Student Collaborations
This article investigates the results of a book sprint experience whose main objective was the development of instructional modules for an open textbook for the teaching of Spanish as a second language. Six graduate students at a public American university participated in the project for a week, working in pairs in the creation of activities that required the incorporation of the tenets of the dual pedagogical frameworks of performance- and liter…
Lotería in the Age of Covid-19: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Two Artistic Visions
The purpose of this project was to compare two different COVID-19 Mexican lotería versions by Mexican-American artists Ernesto Quiñonez Curiel and Pinche Raf. Their work was inspired by the most popular traditional lotería set Don Clemente Gallo, created by Don Clemente Jacques in 1913. Social semiotics was employed in the analysis of the images and text in the two COVID-19 artistic renderings with the objective of discovering the similarities an…
Psychology (10 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (4 works) · Language proficiency (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Cultural competence (2 works)