This article analyzes the critical language awareness (CLA) of Spanish university-level students who were enrolled in a 16-week heritage (SHL) course, using CLA as an instructional approach. Students’ attitudes towards bilingualism, Spanglish, variation, and prescriptivist grammar measured via pretest posttest surveys that used four-point Likert scale strongly agree, disagree, or along with tex...

On April 11 and 12, 2014, the Center for InterAmerican Studies at Bielefeld University arranged for an interdisciplinary workshop on „Entangled Spaces in the Americas“. The workshop was part of an ongoing BMBF (German Ministry of Education and Research) research project at the Center for InterAmerican Studies („The Americas as Space of Entanglement(s)“); its goal was to enable a crossdisciplina...

Coral reef fishes aggregate to spawn on certain locations of reefs. This thesis is an extensive investigation of the behavioral and ecological relations between spawning reef fishes, predators and their environment at a spawning aggregation site. Many hypotheses have been proposed regarding the adaptive nature of different diel reproductive cycles observed in coral reef fishes. This study quant...