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Temas: artículo creencias de los profesores

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Studies on teachers’ beliefs about vocabulary learning and teaching have focused, so far, on English as a second language (L2), or foreign language (FL), in different contexts but little attention has been given to other L2s and FLs. In this study, 15 Spanish L2 instructors at large universities were interviewed in order to better understand where they stand when it comes to (1) the importance they give to vocabulary, as compared to grammar, in their classes, (2) how they decide which words to teach, and (3) how they assess students’ word knowledge. These interviews were subsequently analysed following Grounded Theory. Most instructors...

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Temas: artículo vocabulario

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Este trabajo presenta el proceso de creación y validación de 3K-LEx, una prueba de amplitud léxica de respuesta Sí/No que evalúa el conocimiento de las 3.000 palabras más frecuentes en español. El proceso de validación incluyó la comparación entre los resultados de dos versiones diferentes de la prueba. 1.121 estudiantes completaron ambas versiones, de 162 ítems cada una: 108 palabras reales y 54 pseudopalabras. No se observaron diferencias en los resultados entre ambas versiones. También se compararon dos tipos de administración de la prueba: supervisada y no supervisada, y se evaluaron los resultados en ambas modalidades mediante diferentes matrices de penalización. 88 estudiantes (52 con prueba supervisada y 36 no supervisada) participaron en este proceso. Los participantes de la modalidad no supervisada emplearon más tiempo en...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo vocabulario

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This study examines the effects of word frequency and typographical enhancement (i.e., words in bold) on the learning of single words in Spanish L2 reading activities in a classroom setting. Learners read a text in which target words appearing in bold occurred one, five or 10 times. A parallel text was also provided in which those same words appeared un-bolded. Students were tested three times on both spelling and meaning of the target words: before, immediately after and two weeks after the reading activity. Results show that: (1) after five or 10 encounters, both spelling and meaning recognition skills increase; (2) words appearing in bold only lead to learning gains at a form recognition level immediately after the test is taken and do not contribute to the acquisition of meaning in the post-test; and (3) there is no interaction...

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This study investigated the effectiveness of word-frequency and teacher judgments in determining students? vocabulary knowledge and compared the predictive powers of both approaches when estimating vocabulary knowledge. Twenty-nine second language (L2) Spanish teachers were asked to predict how likely their students would know words from a 216-word Yes/No test that measures knowledge of the first 3,000 words in Spanish. The accuracy of their responses was compared with the results of 1,075 L2 Spanish students who completed the same test. To examine if the results could generalize to other L2 settings, 394 L2 English students completed a 70-word Yes/No test that measures knowledge of the first 14,000 words in English, and...

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