Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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Incorporating mindfulness into education has been linked to improving academic, social and emotional learning. This article describes an investigation of the implementation of meditative practices in a foreign language setting (German). Two classes underwent distinct varieties of meditation: The count-to-ten method and the guided meditation approach, whereas a third class served as a comparison group by not partaking in meditative activities. Meditative practices were implemented for a period of one year and data were collected on students’ academic achievement, measures of mindfulness, and evaluations of their perspectives on meditative practices. Results revealed that classes in the treatment conditions showed marked signs of academic achievement and increased awareness relative to the comparison group. Differences were revealed...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: interacción

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En este ensayo, se proponen las primeras bases para una competencia interactiva, que vaya más allá de las habilidades gramaticales y léxicas del marco común de referencia europeo. Nos interesamos por los fenómenos transversales desatendidos en la comunicación, de entre los cuales destacamos lo que comúnmente se denomina interrupción. Lejos de ser un hecho atribuible al habla disruptiva, argumentamos que la interrupción desempeña funciones clave en la formulación discursiva y la cortesía comunicativa. La comprensión y el dominio de este fenómeno son esenciales para participar eficazmente en conversaciones informales. Por ello, partiendo del análisis conversacional y el modelo de segmentación...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: competencia intercultural

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This article is structured around four questions related to the arts, language and intercultural education. Are the claims for the value of the arts over-stated? Does the use of the arts in the service of non-art outcomes run the risk of distorting the art form itself? Is there a danger that incorporating the arts in language education will distract from its central purpose? Are there any risks in employing the arts to support the teaching of interculturalism? These questions are used as a focus for discussing theoretical perspectives in the arts, including justifying the arts, theories of art, the importance of form, the concept of ‘aesthetic experience’, ‘learning in’ and ‘learning through’ the...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: comprensión lectora

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The ability to read in a second language (L2) for academic purposes is essential for higher education students. Dutch colleges increasingly use materials in English or teach in English. This can be challenging for L2 readers, especially students entering higher education from vocational studies, who may have less experience with L2 academic reading. Teaching L2 reading programmes containing explicit instruction of reading strategies may benefit higher education students in L2 academic reading, particularly since reading strategies learned in the first language (L1) may not transfer to the L2. In this 7-week L2 reading strategy intervention, 801 first-year polytechnic students learned to use seven...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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Today, the Common European Framework of Reference (2009), and with it the action-based approach, underlies English Language Teaching (ELT) curricula throughout Europe. However, actual teaching practices are likely to vary according to factors such as the educational level and supra-national differences, including legal guidelines and the level of extramural English, i.e. out-of-school use of English (Sundqvist, 2009). Those factors presumably influence the role of grammar teaching in foreign language classrooms, which has been the subject of continuous debate (see Graus & Coppen, 2016; Thornbury, 1999; Ur, 2011). Such potential differences in teacher-reported ELT practices across Europe have...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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Inspired by Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory and Storch’s framework of peer interaction, this study investigated the nature and outcome of peer interaction in EFL (English as a foreign language) learners’ peer review and revision activities. During two 16-week semesters, 32 lower-intermediate learners participated in an Advanced Writing university course. Each of the learners wrote and revised six one-paragraph writing assignments and exchanged peer negotiated feedback in pairs. The qualitative analysis of their recorded dialogues revealed that although the learners were nearly at the same proficiency level, they adopted a variety of patterns of interaction including collaborative, expert/novice, dominant/dominant, and dominant/passive. Collaborative and dominant/passive patterns were the most and the least frequent patterns,...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: materiales audiovisuales

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Este artículo aborda la reflexión de una propuesta metodológica en el aula de Español como lengua extranjera (ELE). En él presentaremos la inclusión de la perspectiva de género y la diversidad sexual en el aula a través del uso de series históricas que tratan dicha temática y se encuentran contextualizadas en una época histórica concreta: la España de entreguerras y la Dictadura franquista. El objetivo del artículo es presentar los beneficios del uso de estos medios audiovisuales en el aula, así como presentar un modo de aplicación con un fin concreto, permitiendo el desarrollo de competencias lingüísticas a la vez que se aborda un tema de imperiosa necesidad.

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: oraciones concesivas

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El estudio experimental aplica la Instrucción de Procesamiento y las Tareas Formales para la enseñanza a estudiantes brasileños de la selección modal en las oraciones concesivas con la conjunción aunque. Para ello, se compararon los dos tipos de instrucción, además del grupo de control, en un diseño con pretest y dos postest: el primero contenía también actividades de inferencia contrastiva y de práctica de la traducción directa e inversa. Los resultados muestran que el grupo de tareas formales presenta, en general, mayores índices de respuestas correctas independientemente del modo verbal (indicativo o subjuntivo), del tipo de evaluación y del tiempo entre la prueba inmediata y la aplazada....

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pronunciación

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This study tested the effects of hand-clapping to the rhythm of newly learned French words on the pronunciation of these words by 7- to 8-year-old Catalan children. In a short training experiment with a pre- and posttest design, 28 children either repeated cognate words in French (e.g. French aspirateur, Catalan aspirador ‘vacuum cleaner’) while clapping to the rhythmic structure of those words or only repeated the words. Participants’ oral productions before and after training were rated for accentedness by three French native speakers. Results showed that in both groups, participants’ pronunciation improved after training, and crucially, children in the clapping group improved significantly more than those in the non-clapping group. Additionally, an acoustic analysis of the duration of word-final vowels indicated that only children...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos

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Willingness to communicate (WTC), which plays a crucial role in second or foreign language learning, has a dynamic and complex nature, fluctuating during communicative events. This study examines how the situational WTC of four Japanese speakers of English as a foreign language (EFL) emerges and fluctuates, focusing on the roles of language proficiency and affective and conditional factors. Low-intermediate and advanced speakers were engaged in an interactive, communicative activity with an interlocutor. All utterances were recorded, transcribed, and analysed and combined with the qualitative data from participants’ self-ratings and a stimulated recall interview after the activity to assess fluctuations in WTC. The findings indicate that levels of WTC are influenced differently between low-intermediate and advanced speakers. Although...

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