{"pk":2248,"title":"Fostering Intellectual Investment and Foreign Language Learning Through Role-Immersion Pedagogy","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Recent  scholarship has highlighted the importance of increasing the intellectual  viability of lower-level foreign language (FL) study while facilitating  connections between academic practice, learners’ lives, and global  communities. This article reports on a content-based role-immersion simulation  (RIS) designed to incite a critical orientation toward language learning, as 16  postsecondary intermediate Spanish learners adopted alternate identities and  took part in a culturally grounded scenario centering on resolving problems  related to drug trafficking and violence at the U.S.-Mexico border. Self-reported  data from this qualitative study reveal that a majority of participants  considered the simulation to approximate an intellectually stimulating real-world  immersive encounter; however, some learners approached it as a  language-learning exercise. The article elaborates on criteria that  contributed to these divergent perceptions and concludes with implications for  foreign language curriculum design.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Critical thinking"},{"word":"role-immersion"},{"word":"Simulation"},{"word":"Spanish"},{"word":"foreign language pedagogy"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4g35c2m4","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sara","middle_name":"","last_name":"Finney","name_suffix":"","institution":"The University of Minnesota","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2019-05-23T15:11:40-04:00","date_accepted":"2019-05-23T15:11:40-04:00","date_published":"2019-09-25T16:16:38-04:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/2248/galley/1424/download/"}]}