Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: competencia léxica

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The current study investigates the extent to which receptive vocabulary size test scores can predict second language (L2) speaking ability. Forty-six international students with an advanced level of L2 proficiency completed a receptive vocabulary task (Yes/No test; Meara & Miralpeix, 2017) and a spontaneous speaking task (oral picture narrative). Elicited speech samples were submitted to expert rating based on speakers’ vocabulary features as well as lexical sophistication measures. Results indicate that vocabulary size was significantly associated with vocabulary rating. However, learners with large vocabulary sizes did not necessarily produce lexically sophisticated L2 words during speech. A closer examination of the data reveals complexities regarding the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and speaking. Based on these...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: formación de profesores

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Language learning happens across many sites of social interactions; those scarred by injustices, conflicts and structural violence as well as those characterized by conviviality of human encounters and acts of welcoming the stranger. This article outlines new directions for language teacher education in this age of ambiguity. I propose that its core task should involve educating ‘responsive meaning makers in the world’, that is, teachers who are critically conscious of the politics of their social worlds while, at the same time, committed to growing their capacity to respond to the particular moment of an educational encounter. I suggest that creative arts may play a crucial part in preparing language teachers for such re-envisioned roles.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos

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This quantitative study examines whether and to what extent affective factors (i.e. motivation, self-confidence, risk-taking, L2 speaking anxiety, and grit) and virtual intercultural experiences are linked to willingness to communicate in a second language (L2 WTC) in in-class, out-of-class, and digital settings. Participants included 176 Korean undergraduate and graduate students of English as a foreign language (EFL). After adjusting for demographic factors, hierarchical regression analyses revealed three major results: first, those with higher levels of L2 motivation and grit as well as a lower level of L2 speaking anxiety had higher L2 WTC inside the classroom. Second, students who majored in English and had higher levels of L2 self-confidence and risk-taking had higher L2 WTC outside the classroom. Third, individuals who were...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: pronunciación

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La enseñanza de la pronunciación en la clase de ELE suele ocupar menos espacio que aquel que se dedica a otros ámbitos lingüísticos, como la gramática o el vocabulario. Tradicionalmente, el acercamiento a la pronunciación ha sido fundamentalmente a través del método fonoarticulatorio (Llisterri, 2003). Se ha hecho hincapié, por ejemplo, en el control consciente de los órganos articulatorios y en la importancia de los sonidos individuales. Nuestra unidad didáctica no niega que algunas de estas técnicas sean útiles en determinados casos, pero reivindica las opciones que ofrece el método verbo-tonal como complemento (Guberina y Murillo, 2008). La unidad didáctica que proponemos tiene como objetivos...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pronunciación

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Though research has shown that rhythmic training is beneficial for phonological speech processing, little empirical work has been carried out to assess whether rhythmic training in the classroom can help to improve pronunciation in a second language. This study tests the potential benefits of hand-clapping to the rhythm of newly learned French words for the acquisition of pronunciation patterns by Chinese adolescents. In a between-subjects training experiment with a pretest/posttest design, 50 Chinese adolescents either repeated new French words while clapping out their rhythmic structure (clapping condition) or only repeated the words (non-clapping condition). Participants’ oral production before and after training was (1) perceptually rated for accentedness by two French native speakers and (2) acoustically analysed for final...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: fraseología

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El presente artículo se centra en las unidades fraseológicas con el componente cromático «rojo» en eslovaco y español. Analiza dichas unidades desde el aspecto formal, semántico, traductológico y didáctico. Primero, desde el aspecto formal, compara las estructuras más frecuentes de los cromatismos con el color rojo en ambos idiomas. Segundo, desde el aspecto semántico, compara las connotaciones que las expresiones pluriverbales en cuestión tienen en estos dos idiomas y las contrasta con las connotaciones universales del color rojo. Luego, desde el aspecto traductológico, compara dichas unidades fraseológicas a nivel interlingüístico, examinando los equivalentes traductológicos, sus tipos, los así...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: juegos

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El objetivo del presente artículo es ofrecer al docente de E/LE un análisis de tres herramientas (Crucigramas para imprimir, Educima y EclipseCrossword) para generar los pasatiempos que conocemos con el nombre de crucigramas. Nos centraremos en las variables básicas que este tipo de juego lingüístico ofrece para su configuración, como la elección del número de palabras, de las piezas léxicas en sí, de un campo léxico determinado, del nivel de dificultad o del tamaño de este. El artículo se integra en una serie de análisis y aprovechamiento de diversos pasatiempos en el aula de E/LE, iniciada en trabajos anteriores.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: teoría sociocultural

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The present article argues for a conceptual distinction between corrective feedback and mediation that emphasizes the status of the latter not as an instructional practice but as a defining feature of human psychology (Vygotsky, 1987) that has direct implications for how instruction might be approached. Specifically, Sociocultural Theory (SCT) posits that humans are always and everywhere mediated, as individuals draw upon meanings and ways of thinking they have already internalized as well as those that are available in their immediate environment to regulate their actions. With regard to second language (L2) education, rather than exclusively focusing on learner independent performance or whether learners improve following application of a particular corrective feedback strategy, a view of learner performance as a mediated process...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: marcadores discursivos

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Proponemos una batería de actividades desde B2 basadas en las cuatro destrezas de aprendizaje y en el uso de corpus (Briz y Grupo Val.Es.Co. 2002; Pons y Cabedo 2013) para trabajar adecuadamente la reformulación en el aula y solucionar algunos problemas de raíz teórica, como la trampa forma-función (Pons 2017).

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: aprendizaje colaborativo

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Collaborative writing (CW) has been proven advantageous to enhance the second and foreign language skills of university students. However, little research to date has explored whether CW practices are fruitful for secondary school learners in foreign language (FL) contexts, a population characterized by low language proficiency levels, and few opportunities to engage with the FL. The present classroom-based study examines CW in this setting and aims to determine whether CW fosters language opportunities, operationalized as language-related episodes (LREs), which will allow learners in low-input scenarios to compose better texts. Two parallel intact classes were studied: a control group (n = 16) which produced an argumentative essay individually, and an experimental group (n = 16) which did so in pairs while recording their...

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