Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enfoque por tareas

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This mixed-methods study investigates how task type—independent versus integrated—and task repetition may influence the complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) of second language oral performance and learners’ underlying attention orientation. Fifty-six Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners completed either an independent (reading–speaking) or integrated (reading–listening–speaking) task, repeated after one week. CAF measures captured performance changes, and stimulated recall interviews with 24 participants traced attentional allocation according to Levelt’s (1989) speech model. No interaction effects emerged, but significant main effects were found: repetition was associated with increases in syntactic complexity and accuracy, and task type affected speech rate. Stimulated recalls appeared to align with these findings...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pronunciación

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Studies have reported comparable effectiveness of teacher assessment and learner assessment in promoting second-language (L2) writing skills (Vuogan & Li, 2022; Yu & Lee, 2016). However, whether learner assessment is equally helpful in enhancing L2 pronunciation learning remains underexplored. Addressing this gap, this pretest–posttest quasi-experimental study examined the effects, validity and reliability, and learners’ perception of peer assessment and self-assessment in L2 English pronunciation. The participants, 183 English majors at a university in China, were divided into three groups, each receiving one type of assessment for the segmental and suprasegmental modules of a pronunciation course. The participants’ performances were examined by pre- and post-intervention reading tasks and assessment forms, and their...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: feedback/retroalimentación

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This study investigates the written feedback practices of Cambodian university teachers of English, drawing on 390 student journals and interviews with 11 instructors at a public university. Teacher feedback was dominated by grammar-focused, direct correction, influenced by student expectations for comprehensive error marking, heavy teaching loads, and limited institutional guidance. At the same time, many teachers described feedback as encouragement and emphasized the emotional support they hoped to provide, revealing a tension between their relational intentions and the predominantly form-focused practices. This pattern reflected not only pedagogical beliefs but also the institutional, cultural, and evaluative conditions that made surface-level correction the most feasible and professionally legible option. While these dynamics echo...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: aprendizaje autónomo

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This study aims to examine the effect of instructors’ behaviors supporting learner autonomy on students’ academic achievement and anxiety levels related to reading, listening, writing, and speaking skills in teaching Turkish as a foreign language. The study was conducted during the 2023–24 academic year with two sample groups, consisting of 1,002 students learning Turkish and 115 instructors working at the School of Foreign Languages of a state university. Participants were selected using simple random sampling within the accessible population. Reliability and validity analyses of the scales were conducted, and the adequacy of the measurement models was confirmed through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and the Heterotrait–Monotrait Ratio (HTMT). According to the results of multiple group analysis and canonical correlation analysis...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: uso de la L1 en el aula

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Reflecting the important role of collaborative dialogue in second language (L2) learning, collaborative writing tasks have been widely used in L2 classrooms to help students gain new knowledge and consolidate their existing knowledge about how the target language works. Although use of the first language (L1) during peer interaction has been criticized (Levine, 2003; Unamuno, 2008), collaborative dialogue research has identified how L1 English use serves several important sociocognitive functions and supports knowledge mediation in foreign language classrooms (Swain & Lapkin, 2013). This study also examines the sociocognitive functions served by English in an L2 French classroom but compares...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enfoque por tareas

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This study investigates the effects of two task factors (i.e. task complexity and task sequence) and an interlocutor factor (i.e. interlocutor familiarity) on Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ self-repair strategies during synchronous online task-based interaction. Four decision-making tasks were conducted to elicit oral interactions from 44 low-level proficiency EFL learners, who were required to complete the tasks in pairs in either a simple-to-complex sequence or a complex-to-simple sequence. Information about the learners’ familiarity with their partners was collected through interviews. Learners’ self-repair was analysed in terms of various recycling and replacement strategies. The results revealed that complex tasks facilitated learners in replacing items to solve problems, while the simple-to-complex task...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: profesorado

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The teaching profession has undergone a dramatic shift in pedagogical practices due to COVID-19. Already facing numerous challenges prepandemic, language teaching in particular has become significantly more difficult, and the effect on language teacher stress and well-being is still being explored. Key to this study is the exploration of growth during trauma, an adaptation of post-traumatic growth. Following previous studies from MacIntyre et al., this article examines changes in language teacher stress, well-being, resilience, and growth during trauma from April 2020 to December 2021 in an online survey of over 1,100 language teachers internationally. Correlations revealed relative stability in...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and the resulting array of ever-powerful consumer-facing generative AI (GenAI) applications have simultaneously wowed, stunned, scared and energized language teachers and researchers over the past few years. Understandably so, since these new technologies challenge foundational assumptions in our field: When writing can be largely automated, beautiful multimodal content generated from a few prompts, and when we can appear in videos speaking fluently in a language that we do not know, what becomes of the role of language teachers/teaching? This article engages these questions by critically examining four core areas of second language (L2) education: the language curriculum, the relationship between technology and language learning, the language learner and the ideological...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos

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This article presents a small-scale study of students with medium to high levels of foreign language anxiety (FLA) enrolled in synchronous, online French classes at an Australian university. We conducted in-depth, semistructured interviews with 10 such students, focusing specifically on their experience with speaking activities and their perceptions of questions requiring self-disclosure that are routinely asked in foreign language classes. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. The findings reveal that students overwhelmingly prefer the physical classroom to the online environment, and that this is largely due to increased possibilities for easier interaction with fellow students. In addition, these students were all at ease with disclosing low-level personal information in class. This suggests that the social nature of...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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Along with the increasing popularity of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies and the ongoing crisis of disinformation, the importance of digital literacies (DL) and preparing preservice English teachers to teach DL is well documented. Yet little research has explored DL in preservice language teacher education. This study addressed the gap by conceptualizing DL as both functional skills and social practices and developing an innovative GenAI-supported digital multimodal composing (DMC) approach to prepare preservice English teachers to teach DL. Multiple sources of data were collected in two language teacher education programs in Hong Kong with preservice English teachers from diverse backgrounds. A combination of thematic and multimodal analysis reveals positive responses and a range of benefits, challenges and...

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