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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pedagogía crítica

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This study examines the impact of implementing a social justice culture curriculum on learners' development of the intercultural communicative competence (ICC) and on their desire to continue learning Spanish. Two types of culture instruction—a traditional curriculum centered around foreign Spanish-speaking countries and an experimental curriculum focused on US Hispanic/Latinx communities—were implemented in third and fourth Spanish courses at a US university in the Southwest. A survey was developed to measure participants' (n = 264) ICC and intention to continue learning Spanish. Results indicate that both types of culture curriculum have a positive impact in the development of ICC...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: política lingüística

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This article examines the experiences of Spanish high school teachers in Tennessee, a state in the New Latino South where anti-immigrant sentiments and rejection of languages other than English are commonplace. Through a narrative inquiry approach, we explored how these contextual realities impacted teachers' perceptions of their roles and how they shaped their pedagogical goals. Participants' narratives reveal that, despite sharing similar realities at the macro level (the U.S. and the New Latino South), teachers' experiences were dependent on two factors at the meso level (their communities and schools). Teachers in urban areas and private schools worked in less challenging environments....

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pedagogía crítica

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Social justice pedagogies (SJPs) are increasingly common in world language (WL) classrooms. However, little is known about how these activities unfold in real time. This qualitative, observational, and exploratory study adopts a multimodal, microanalytic lens to examine the enactment of an in-class social justice (SJ) activity involving four learners in a postsecondary second language Spanish course in the U.S. Using video data, the study draws on Sociocognitive Theory and Multimodal Interaction Analysis to pursue two goals: (1) to investigate whether learners enacted the SJ activity in ways consistent with both the activity's instructions and broader SJPs, and (2) to explore whether and how language learning emerges within this interaction. The discussion raises important considerations about the design of SJ activities and offers...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión escrita

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Debate pedagogy may hold great potential for improving second language (L2) writing skills. This study investigates this potential by examining the effects of a debate intervention on the quality of argumentative essays of Dutch secondary school students. The intervention consisted of a number of speaking and writing activities, including case-writing and note-taking. The study, which employed a pretest–posttest–delayed-posttest design with a control group, involved 135 students from eight classes at three secondary schools in the Netherlands. To measure the effects of the intervention, we analysed argumentative essays composed by the students on three occasions (pretest, posttest, and delayed posttest). The students’ essays were analysed using a range of measures for fluency, syntactic and lexical complexity, accuracy, and cohesion,...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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While research suggests that vocabulary learning through task completion is more effective than direct instruction, the underlying cause of this advantage—whether task involvement load (IL) or time spent on tasks—remains unclear. Extending the work of Hill and Laufer (2003, International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 41, 87–106), this study examines the effects of IL and employs eye-tracking to investigate how time spent on tasks, target words, and context, as well as regressions to targets, influence incidental vocabulary acquisition. Seventy-three second-language (...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: competencia intercultural

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This article introduces a new instrument designed to assess the extent to which foreign language teaching books used in formal educational contexts promote the development of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC). Grounded in established theoretical models of ICC (e.g., Byram; Fantini) and content validation by experts, this tool helps users critically analyze intercultural content and activities within these materials. Through validation by experts and a pilot application carried out with 12 foreign language teachers working in different formal educational contexts (including schools, language institutes, and higher education), the instrument made it possible to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the textbooks analyzed. Among the strengths are the inclusion of content that promotes cultural curiosity and the integration...

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Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: gamificación

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As digital or video gaming has grown in popularity around the globe in the last few decades, attention to its potential as a means to learn L2s (second, foreign, or additional languages) has grown, as evidenced by an increase in academic journal-based treatment of research in DGBELLT (digital game-based and enhanced second/foreign language learning and teaching), alongside monographs and edited volumes. To identify common findings and research trends, we conducted a review of recent research and scholarship in the young field published between January 2021 and December 2024 inclusive in major academic journals and edited volumes. We ultimately selected 76 pieces for the review, categorizing them into five types or foci: reviews and meta-analyses, studies of game-enhanced L2 learning and L2 gaming, game-enhanced pedagogy, L2 learning...

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Tipo: libro

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: lingüística

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Bringing together an international team of scholars from various linguistic areas, theoretical viewpoints, and educational contexts, this book makes the case for strengthening the role of linguistics in second language (L2) teaching and learning. Seeing firsthand how the strengths and tools of the science of language contribute greatly to pedagogical effectiveness in the L2 classroom, the authors of each chapter lay out the strengths of linguistics for L2 teaching and learning with examples, case studies, research, anecdotal evidence, illustrations, and sample activities for the language classroom. The book argues as well for the place of L2 theory and data in linguistic inquiry and linguistics education. Bringing these disparate disciplines together around the shared reality of language itself has great promise of mutual benefit....

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Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: lingüística

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Digital Applied Linguistics (DAL) is an innovative and rapidly evolving field that integrates advanced technologies, particularly generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), into language education, acquisition, and research. This study first systematically synthesized research on language learning, teaching, and teacher development, as well as potential future directions in GenAI-driven Digital Applied Linguistics, drawing on 23 recent and relevant studies. Employing the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, findings indicated that digital technologies, particularly GenAI, have significant potential to enhance and transform language learning and teaching. Additionally, the study adopted semi-structured interviews for three focal cases from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau....

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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Large language models (LLMs) have recently gained attention in automated writing evaluation (AWE) due to their flexibility, ease of use, and free accessibility. However, most existing studies have relied on standardized rubrics and detailed scoring guidelines to guide model outputs. Recent evidence suggests that LLMs can adapt their scoring behavior through example-based calibration. Building on this insight, the present study examines whether ChatGPT-4o can mirror individual instructors’ evaluative tendencies. Data consisted of 100 previously graded final exam writing samples from Saudi students of English as a second language (ESL), provided by five instructors at a Saudi university’s Bachelor of Arts program. GPT (generative pre-trained transformer) was calibrated using instructor-graded writing samples to enhance its alignment...

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