Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: fonética

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En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de un estudio sobre la discriminación auditiva de los contrastes entre consonantes oclusivas orales del español por aprendices sinohablantes, analizando los datos mediante la teoría de detección de señales. Tras unos apartados iniciales de contextualización, tanto teórica como metodológica, y de un breve análisis contrastivo entre las lenguas implicadas, se presentan los resultados de una prueba de discriminación de respuesta cerrada, utilizando el paradigma igual/diferente, que confirman las dificultades de estos aprendientes para distinguir la serie sorda o tensa de la sonora o laxa. Por ello se ha diseñado una propuesta didáctica...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: literatura

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El presente artículo se suma al debate sobre la pertinencia de incorporar la literatura dentro de la enseñanza de ELE. Para ello, en un primer tramo, se sistematizan las contribuciones que aporta al aula, para, en un segundo momento, focalizar la literatura de tradición oral como eje de trabajo por su capacidad para vehicular memoria cultural y dialogar con procesos de construcción identitaria. Sobre ese marco, se presenta una propuesta didáctica a partir de leyendas de Zaragoza, fruto de dos talleres impartidos dentro de los Cursos de ELE de la Universidad de Zaragoza (2022 y 2025). La secuencia —dinámica y lúdica— buscó activar las competencias literaria, cultural e intercultural,...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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Este artículo analiza la necesidad de formar al profesorado de español como lengua extranjera (ELE) en técnicas de prompting para integrar, con fines didácticos, modelos de lenguaje de gran tamaño (LLM) y otras herramientas de inteligencia artificial generativa (IAG). Presenta resultados de un cuestionario ad hoc (N = 350) administrado a docentes de lenguas extranjeras de primaria y secundaria en Toscana (Italia). Se describen niveles de conocimiento y uso de IAG, percepciones de utilidad pedagógica y preferencias formativas. Aunque el profesorado declara estar familiarizado con herramientas como ChatGPT o Gemini, su empleo en el aula se concentra en tareas básicas (generación de materiales) y...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: formación de profesores

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La formación inicial del profesorado de ELE es fundamental para garantizar el buen desempeño docente. En el presente trabajo, nos interesamos en la formación docente en la Escuela Normal Superior (ENS) de Yaundé, a partir del análisis del plan curricular. La metodología usada es cualitativa y se fundamenta en el análisis documental. Analizamos dicho plan curricular tomando como punto de referencia algunos marcos de referencias sobre la formación de docentes de lenguas. El resultado de nuestro trabajo deja entrever algunas limitaciones, así como las mejoras significativas que el nuevo marco curricular prevé consolidar para la formación a unos docentes competentes.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos

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Although boredom has been the subject of increasing scrutiny in second language (L2) learning recently, very little is known about how this emotion can affect teachers and students involved in Covid-19 prompted online English education. To address this gap, through maximum variation sampling, this qualitative study surveyed the opinions of 34 teachers and 256 students from universities across Iran to find out which class mode (online versus physical classes) and course type (content-based versus skills-based courses) were more boring, and what – if any – coping strategies these individuals used to get over boredom. The majority of teachers and students deemed online classes more boring than traditional, in-person classes. While teachers regarded skills-based and content-based courses as equally boring, most students believed that...

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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: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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The present study aimed to bridge the gap in understanding the effects of captioned viewing on incidental vocabulary learning by using a forest plot to illustrate the influence of word-related factors and learner-related factors. Data were collected from 67 university students at a Chinese university. The results highlighted the significant effect of captioned viewing on incidental vocabulary learning and revealed the varied roles of both word- and learner-related factors in this process. Specifically, the study found that word frequency, word relevance, vocabulary breadth, phonological working memory, complex working memory, and English proficiency all play significant roles in vocabulary acquisition. These findings provide deeper insights into the relative value of captioned viewing for incidental vocabulary learning and identify...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: feedback/retroalimentación

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While previous research has investigated teacher oral feedback practices and their influences on student learning, little research has examined how students interpret and engage with teacher feedback, which is critical to the feedback effectiveness and the success of learning and performance. According to Ellis, student engagement is clearly defined as the ways that students respond to the feedback, which can be cognitive, behavioral, and affective. Drawing upon students’ oral presentations together with teacher oral feedback, semi-structured interviews, stimulated recalls, reflective accounts, and PowerPoint (PPT) slides for the oral presentations, this case study investigates three undergraduates’ cognitive, behavioral, and affective engagement with teachers’ oral feedback provided on in-class oral presentations in an English as a...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: estrategias de aprendizaje

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The interconnectedness of reading and writing necessitates a dynamic approach to learning, particularly for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Self-regulated reading-to-write (SR-R2W) emerges as a promising approach, empowering EFL learners to consciously integrate reading and writing to address writing weaknesses and enhance writing proficiency. However, individual differences in EFL learners’ self-regulated R2W and writing strategy use remain largely unexplored. This study proposed a revised self-regulated writing (RSRW) framework by integrating SR-R2W into the existing self-regulated writing framework. Building on this framework, the study identified distinct SR-R2W and RSRW profiles and examined their associations with English reading, writing, and general performance, as well as motivational beliefs. Participants were...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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Learners entering higher education may learn specialized vocabulary of new disciplines in their second language (L2) with or without support from their first language (L1). However, these learners cannot rely on an established conceptual representation in L1 when learning L2 specialized vocabulary. The effects of learning a new concept in L1 prior to learning and testing the same concept in L2 are yet unclear. The present study compared the effectiveness of L1-mediation and L2-repetition word learning methods randomly assigned to 75 bilingual adults. Participants learned subject-specific specialized vocabulary through reading a series of definition sentences in two learning episodes a week apart. The L1L2 group ( N = 31) first learned L1 words on Day 1 and then their L2 translation equivalents on Day 2, while the L2L2 group ( N = 44)...

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