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Project “Más Allá del Español (Beyond the Spanish Language)” to Promote the Inclusion of Moroccan Migrants in Spanish Secondary Schools

Barrios, M. & García, E. (2012). Project “Más Allá del Español (Beyond the Spanish Language)” to Promote the Inclusion of Moroccan Migrants in Spanish Secondary Schools. In T. Amiel & B. Wilson (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2012 (pp. 532-540). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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EDMEDIA

World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2012
Denver, Colorado, USA
June 26, 2012
ISBN 1-880094-95-9
  Tel Amiel & Brent Wilson
AACE

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Authors

María Barrios, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain; Elisa García, Centro Universitario Villanueva, Spain

Abstract

This paper is a report on the project “Más allá del español (Beyond the Spanish Language)”. Its first goal was to create a free on-line resource useful for Moroccan students, non-Spanish fluent speakers. Even though they are the higher migration group in Secondary Schools in some areas of Spain, there are not didactic materials for them. Lack of motivation and difficulties in communication involve educational and social problems. The resource is based on contrastive linguistic studies (Moroccan Arabic language and Spanish language) and on qualitative social research techniques. It is developed as a set of games by levels and it is being evaluated by some Moroccan students. The second goal of the project was to change attitudes in Spanish students: for this reason we are making a short film with Spanish and Moroccan students, and some other additional audiovisual material