Comparing pathways to Spanish proficiency.

Research question

When learners spend comparable amounts of time studying Spanish, how do different practice approaches relate to changes in reading, writing, listening, and speaking performance?

Three proposed study conditions

These are proposed conditions, not completed experimental groups. The exact protocols and allocation approach remain to be finalized.

Participants and design considerations

The proposed recruitment pool includes elementary, intermediate, and advanced university Spanish courses. A rigorous design would consider baseline proficiency, course-level differences, prior language exposure, instructor effects, practice adherence, and the fairness of comparisons across conditions.

Equivalent time does not necessarily mean equivalent instructional content or attention. Any conclusions would need to reflect these limitations.

Planned outcomes

Parallel pretest and posttest tasks would assess reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Instruments should sample transferable communicative abilities rather than reproduce SpanishGo exercises. Speaking and writing would benefit from explicit rubrics and independent, ideally blinded, scoring.

Analysis considerations

Possible analyses include changes from baseline, between-condition comparisons adjusted for starting proficiency, confidence intervals, effect sizes, and transparent handling of missing data. Statistical plans should be finalized before outcomes are examined, ideally with guidance from a qualified faculty advisor.

Ethics and oversight

Before any recruitment, intervention, or data collection, the researcher and faculty advisor should seek the university's IRB or equivalent determination. Instructor–student power dynamics, voluntary consent, privacy, and secure data handling require particular attention. JuntoVerse's ownership of SpanishGo must be disclosed as a potential conflict of interest.

Current project status

Proposed / design development. This page does not claim IRB approval, recruitment, data collection, results, conference acceptance, or peer-reviewed publication. Future updates should be dated and document only milestones actually achieved.