Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: translingüismo

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Translanguaging has thrived as a pedagogy for second language (L2) acquisition because of its potential in maximizing L2 learners’ communicative repertoire. However, limited attention has been paid to how translanguaging can influence L2 speaking within the framework of task-based language teaching (TBLT). This study explored how different language use (i.e., L2 only and translanguaging) in collaborative pre-task planning contributed to L2 learners’ subsequent monologic speaking performance, as measured by complexity, accuracy, fluency (CAF), and idea units. The planning behaviours were also examined to offer explanations for the differences in learners’ speaking performance. Altogether 72 undergraduate students from a Chinese university voluntarily participated in this study. The results showed that translanguaging planning...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: cognición y procesamiento

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This study investigates how different task types influence the second language (L2) speech performance of English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners, how working memory capacity (WMC) is associated with that performance, and how L2 proficiency moderates the relationship between WMC and L2 speech performance across story retelling, independent speaking, and picture narration tasks. The participants were 86 Chinese EFL university undergraduates. Data were collected through a sociodemographic questionnaire, a speaking span test, and three monologic oral tasks. Results showed that distinct tasks elicited varying L2 speech performance, with the influence of WMC on L2 speech performance depending on task types. Specifically, higher WMC was associated with increased syntactic complexity in the story retelling task, and greater accuracy in...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos

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This embedded mixed-methods study reports on the impact of perceived second language oral proficiency on English-as-a-foreign-language learners’ task emotions (i.e., anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom), and the influence of task emotions on speech fluency across different perceived second language oral proficiency levels, both with learners’ actual second language oral proficiency as a control variable. A total of 77 Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language university students were recruited for quantitative data collection. Results showed that higher perceived second language oral proficiency correlated with lower anxiety and greater enjoyment. It was also found that perceived low-level second language speakers demonstrated greater emotional susceptibility. Additionally, two learners with similar actual but different perceived second...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: estrategias de aprendizaje

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The present study investigated the effects of self-regulated strategy-based speaking instruction on English-as-a-foreign-language learners’ speaking performance and strategy use. Despite extensive research on self-regulated learning in various educational contexts, its application to second language speaking development remains underexplored. This explanatory mixed-methods quasi-experimental study employed self-report questionnaires, speaking assessments, and semi-structured interviews for data collection. A linear mixed-effects model results revealed that the experimental group (n = 54, receiving the self-regulated learning strategy-based intervention) demonstrated significantly greater improvement in speaking performance compared to the control group (n = 53, receiving traditional instruction), with effects sustained at delayed post...

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