Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos

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This study examined the relationship between anxiety and native language skill and foreign language aptitude measures among 154 high school foreign language learners. Three levels of anxiety were identified using the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale or FLCAS (Horwitz, Horwitz, & Cope, 1986). Low Anxiety (LO-ANX) students were expected to have significantly stronger native language skills and foreign language aptitude than High Anxiety (HI-ANX) students and significantly higher foreign language grades. Findings showed overall significant differences among the groups on nine variables, including measures of native language phonology/orthography, semantics, and verbal memory; foreign language aptitude; eighth-grade English grade; and end-of-year foreign language grade. Discriminant analysis results showed that all test...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: adquisición de segundas lenguas

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Revisión de once estudios que comparan el desarrollo de la segunda lengua en aprendientes con instrucción formal y en aprendientes que solo han tenido exposición natural a la lengua, controlando el tiempo de contacto.

Resultado: seis estudios favorecen a la instrucción, dos favorecen la exposición y tres no arrojan diferencias; el efecto positivo aparece tanto en niveles iniciales como avanzados y tanto en contexto de segunda lengua como de lengua extranjera. Long concluye que la instrucción marca una diferencia y plantea la pregunta que ordenará la investigación posterior: no si enseñar sirve, sino qué es lo que en la enseñanza produce el efecto.

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Tipo: actas

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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Comunicación presentada en la International Conference on Information and Education Innovations (ICIEI-24), celebrada en Shanghái los días 27 y 28 de marzo de 2024, sobre la incorporación de ChatGPT a la enseñanza de lenguas y sus implicaciones pedagógicas.

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Tipo: capítulo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: chatbots

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This entry provides a concise overview of the research conducted on chatbots in language teaching and learning, and aims to introduce chatbots as a distinct field within computer-assisted language learning (CALL). Much of the existing research focuses solely on chatbots' functions as conversational software, lacking deep reflection and theorization. In response to the need for a theoretical foundation, the authors review previous studies to highlight three considerations: the unique characteristics of chatbots that distinguish them from human interlocutors; research frameworks incorporating cognitive, sociocultural, and critical approaches; and areas in language education that intersect with chatbot technology.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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The use of chatbots as learning assistants is receiving increasing attention in language learning due to their ability to converse with students using natural language. Previous reviews mainly focused on only one or two narrow aspects of chatbot use in language learning. This review goes beyond merely reporting the specific types of chatbot employed in past empirical studies and examines the usefulness of chatbots in language learning, including first language learning, second language learning, and foreign language learning. We conducted a systematic search and identified 25 empirical studies, using the inductive grounded approach to identify the technological and pedagogical affordances and the challenges of using chatbots, and Garrison's social presence framework to analyze the social affordances.

Our...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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Examines the effects of ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode on the development of university students' oral proficiency. Following a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, the study measured improvement over an 8-week intervention and then gathered learners' perspectives through semi-structured interviews. Quantitative findings showed that fluency and lexical resources increased significantly, but pronunciation did not. The qualitative data focus on three themes: the potential of AI for low-anxiety practice, learners' frustration with the lack of nuanced feedback on accent, and difficulties with real-time corrective functions. The authors propose a «Mixed Dialogical Model» combining...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: estrategias de aprendizaje

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This chapter begins with definitions and an overview of methods used to identify learners’ strategies, then summarizes what we have learned from the large number of descriptive studies of strategies reported by language learners. Research on language learning strategies has a history of only about thirty years, and much of this history has been sporadic. The 1980s and early 1990s were a period of substantial research on language learning strategies, much of it descriptive. This period was followed by an apparent loss of interest in language learning strategies, judging by limited reported research and few related conference presentations. Recently, however, a number of new investigations have reinvigorated the field. The focus of the chapter is on the evolution of research on language learning strategy intervention studies, the issues...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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Recent technological advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have paved the way for improved and in many cases the creation of entirely new and innovative, electronic writing tools. These writing support systems assist during and after the writing process making them indispensable to many writers in general and to students in particular who can get human-like sentence completion suggestions and text generation. Although the wide adoption of these tools by students has been faced with a steady growth of scientific publications in the field, the results of these studies are often contradictory and their validity may be questioned. To gain a deeper understanding of the validity of AI-powered writing...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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The rapid integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) into educational contexts has presented both opportunities and challenges for students seeking and using feedback. While AI-generated feedback can offer increased access, timely responses and personalised insights, concerns about the quality of AI-generated feedback still persist, including issues of bias, factual inaccuracies, and homogenisation. This study investigates how students use, value and trust AI-generated feedback compared to feedback from educators. This paper draws on a large-scale cross-sectional survey administered across four major Australian universities. A quantitative analysis of ...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: traducción automática

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Although use of machine translation (MT) technologies by learners may seem like a relatively new issue in foreign language (FL) education, researchers have been investigating connections between MT tools and FL teaching and learning for more than three decades, years before learners had access to free online services such as Google Translate. This literature review summarizes this rapidly expanding research domain both chronologically and thematically, identifying key concepts, insights, and findings and mapping them onto a framework inspired by questions commonly asked by both researchers and practitioners: How do learners use MT tools? What do instructors and learners think about MT? How...

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