Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: adquisición de segundas lenguas

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This article reports a classroom-based study of the effects of two types of corrective feedback (CF) on the acquisition of 3rd person -s. One hundred and nine Chinese university students completed three communicative tasks: One group received implicit CF consisting of a single corrective move (implicit recasts), a second group received explicit CF consisting of a dual corrective move (a prompt followed by a more explicit recast), a third group performed the tasks without feedback, and a control group just completed two tests. The groups completed two pre-tests, immediate post-tests and delayed post-tests. Gains in accuracy in a test of procedural knowledge (an elicited imitation test) and in a test of declarative knowledge (an untimed grammaticality judgement test) were evident in the first three groups but with few differences among...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enfoque por tareas

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While the research on pretask planning has concentrated on its effects on learners’ task performance in terms of fluency, accuracy, and complexity, its possible influence on the overall discourse level, such as discourse management and coherence, has been largely ignored. The present study addresses the inadequacy by uncovering the potential effects of pretask planning on Chinese EFL (English as a foreign language) learners’ selection of referential expressions in oral narratives. Fifty-six intermediate-level learners were tasked with retelling the story of Modern Times under one of two conditions, that is, either with 10-minutes strategic planning or without any planning time. An additional 25 native speakers (NSs) also narrated the same story under the same task conditions. Their narratives were audio recorded, transcribed, and...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pragmática

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The present study deals with the effect of audio-visual material for second language (L2) pragmatic learning in the foreign language classroom. More specifically, it analyzes whether being exposed to captioned and non-captioned input in an experimental condition entailing no instruction on pragmatics might have any influence on the learners’ pragmatic performance. To this aim, two intact classes ( N = 31) of learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) at a B1 level were exposed to videos with captions and without captions, respectively. Before and after watching the videos, all the students were asked to carry out a role-play task with situations like those in the videos. A mixed-methods approach was used to analyze the learners’ performance in terms of types and number of strategies to perform speech acts (quantitative) and in...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: adquisición de segundas lenguas

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This study employs eye-tracking to investigate how first (L1) and second language (L2) glosses affect lexical uptake and reading behaviors in L2 learners of English. The study also explores the relationship between lexical uptake and reading behaviors as a function of gloss type. To investigate this, 81 Korean university students were asked to read a baseline passage with no gloss or the same passage with glosses in the study’s L1 (Korean) or L2 (English). Their eye movements were recorded with an eye tracker as they read, and they were subsequently asked to respond to two vocabulary tests. Analyses of eye-tracking data and vocabulary test scores revealed that the presence or absence of L1 and L2 glosses might produce differences in lexical uptake and dissimilar attentional mechanisms. For instance, the study found that L1 and L2...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: competencia intercultural

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La idea de proponer un recorrido didáctico sobre el tema de los estereotipos está directamente relacionada con el cambio de los conceptos de cultura y de competencia comunicativa en las aulas. A partir de los años 90, de hecho, la competencia comunicativa ha sido reemplazada por la competencia comunicativa intercultural (entre otros Beacco 2000; Byram y Gribkova y Starkey, 2001; Borghetti, 2016). Con un enfoque hacia la consciencia intercultural y la pedagogía crítica, se presenta esta experiencia didáctica (de cuatro unidades de dos horas) realizada en un instituto italiano de Bolonia en 2021 (4.º ESO, nivel A2-B1 del QCER). A través del trabajo cooperativo y gracias a una metodología activa...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: adquisición de segundas lenguas

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Prior research showed that interleaved practice (studying multiple skills at once) is more effective than blocked practice (studying only one skill at a time). This study aims to replicate the benefits of interleaved practice on the proceduralization of second language (L2) syntax and further examines the role of working memory (WM) in different practice schedules. Sixty English learners studied five types of relative-clause constructions under either blocked- or interleaved-practice conditions. The blocked-practice group engaged in systematic form-focused speaking practice with exemplars blocked by syntactic category, while the interleaved-practice group received mixed exemplars from the different categories. The proceduralization of grammatical knowledge was measured by analysing the accuracy and speed indices from a picture...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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While most empirical studies have investigated the improvement of learners’ L2 spoken proficiency via speaking-related interventions, the present study examined the same topic through a different modality: listening. Ninety-five first-year tertiary-level students of English as a second language (ESL) in Hong Kong participated in this three-month experiment. They were separated randomly into three groups: (A) narrow listening with latitude for learners to choose their own materials; (B) narrow listening without such latitude; and (C) a control group without narrow listening. All participants attended a compulsory course on English phonology. Narrow listening was set as homework for the two experimental groups A and B. The overall results indicated that groups A and B improved significantly more than group C in pronunciation and fluency...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: español como lengua extranjera

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Recent research on the effects of processing instruction (PI) have incorporated online research methods in order to demonstrate that PI has effects on cognitive processing behaviors as well as on accuracy (e.g. Lee & Doherty, 2019a). The present study uses self-paced reading and a moving windows technique to examine the effects of PI on second language (L2) learners’ processing of Spanish active and passive sentences to explore the effects of PI on instructed second language acquisition. One group received PI but the Control group did not. Between group comparisons on passive sentences showed changes in performance for the PI group but not the Control group with the PI group gaining in accuracy and processing speed, specifically faster response times to select the correct picture and faster reading time on passive verb forms....

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: experiencia práctica

Temas: expresión oral

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En este artículo vamos a presentar un ejemplo de experiencia memorable de aprendizaje realizada con estudiantes de ELE (Español Lengua Extranjera) de la Universidad francesa de Rouen Normandie. El objetivo de esta experiencia es el de ayudarles a desarrollar y mejorar la calidad de las destrezas lingüísticas del español. Para llevar a cabo esta experiencia de aprendizaje hemos creado actividades de producción oral y escrita inspiradas en las características del grafiti.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: comprensión lectora

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La comprensión se materializa en un proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje que se sostiene en la interactividad de tres dimensiones: texto, lector y contexto. No obstante, hay una falta de evidencias empíricas que explican cómo interactúan las tres en el contexto educativo y cómo deberían interactuar para facilitar el aprendizaje del estudiante a partir de textos. En este sentido, el objetivo de este trabajo es explorar la interactividad en el aula de ELE en cursos de Literatura e Historia. La investigación adopta una metodología cualitativa de estudio de caso que a partir de un análisis de contenido reveló la necesidad de implementar las actividades de lectura en función de los intereses de los...

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