Acquisition and Assessment of Spanish by Haitian Secondary School Students in Chile
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2021
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This study is framed in the field of Applied Linguistics in Spanish as a Foreign Language. A practical applicationfor teaching based on assessment and error analysis of Haitian students in Chilean secondary schools is presented. Thiswork is particularly relevant given that the most socioeconomically vulnerable schools in the country have received asignificant influx of non-native Spanish speakers without any linguistic policy in place to help these students improve theirpoor general academic performance. Two analyses were carried out based on students’ written texts: a meta-analysis ofevaluation rubrics completed by secondary school language teachers and an error analysis by the researchers. Both ofthese analyses point to significant deficiencies in the use of Spanish on the part of the students, but they differ in terms of thespecific factors that they indicate for greater evaluative focus and subsequent feedback and coverage in the classroom.
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Spanish as a Foreign Language, Multicompetence, Error Analysis, Writing Skill, Secondary Students