Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: discriminación y racismo

Resumen:

Texto completo

Microaggressions are subtle offensive mechanisms that can be intentional or unintentional (Pierce, 1970). For the past 50 years, researchers have documented their damaging effects on peoples? mental and physical health. In this report, we focus on microaggressions in the Spanish classroom and with Latino/Latinx/Hispanic students, including their damaging effects within the context of changing demographics in the United States, how they impact our language classrooms, and how they can be mitigated through language curricula that promote intercultural citizenship. Also, we share strategies and suggestions to counter microaggressions in the language...

Ver ficha completa

Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: cognición y procesamiento

Resumen:

Artículo en inglés
Artículo en español

Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field of researchers from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and anthropology who seek to understand the mind. In this regular American Educator column, we consider findings from this field that are strong and clear enough to merit classroom application.

-----------------------

I have read that the mind treats stories differently than other types of information. It seems obvious that people like listening to stories, but it's not obvious how to use that in the classroom....

Ver ficha completa

Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: feedback/retroalimentación

Resumen:

Corrective feedback on second language (L2) writing has remained one of the most heavily studied areas in applied linguistics, yet clear guidance for practitioners about how to provide it most effectively remains limited. Previous studies have meta-analysed written corrective feedback (WCF) research revealing conflicting findings in how WCF affects development in L2 writers? accuracy over time. This study provides a needed update in light of a recent increase in (quasi)experimental WCF studies. It features several methodological advances by introducing a Bayesian approach to conducting a meta-analysis, which provides a more valid picture of the generalizable effects. The analysis allows distinction ? for the first time at a meta-analytic level ? between short-, medium-, and long-term effects of WCF. Results aggregate data from an...

Ver ficha completa

Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: cognición y procesamiento

Resumen:

Artículo en inglés
Artículo en español

Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field of researchers from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and anthropology who seek to understand the mind. In this regular American Educator column, we consider findings from this field that are strong and clear enough to merit classroom application.

-----------------------

It is difficult to overstate the value of practice. For a new skill to become automatic or for new knowledge to become long-...

Ver ficha completa

Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: corpus

Resumen:

While first-language (L1) corpora have been a key tool for linguistic research in Spanish, their use for pedagogical purposes is still limited, and more corpora are needed that document the varieties of Spanish used by learners or heritage speakers of the language. In this article, we provide an overview of the research that has already been carried out with available Spanish corpora and we propose avenues for further development of the areas where there is room for growth. As an introduction to this special issue, we also summarize the highlights of each of the six articles in this volume. Finally, we conclude with a call for collaboration among Spanish corpus researchers to address the current limitations when it comes to creating corpora that include oral and longitudinal data, that are more accessible, and more useful for daily...

Ver ficha completa

Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: corpus

Resumen:

Language corpora can play a significant role in second language education, particularly given the benefits of data-driven learning. However, most teachers are not able to effectively utilize technologies that search, summarize, and contextualize corpus samples and lack training in the design and implementation of corpus-based learning tasks and materials. Even though attempts to implement formal teacher training in these areas have started to emerge, they tend to concentrate on English language contexts. Similar experiences in Spanish teacher education are almost non-existent, even though digital literacy is a key competency in the preparation of foreign language teachers. Consequently, Spanish language teachers can only rely on general suggestions on how to integrate corpus methods and resources into their practice. This article...

Ver ficha completa

Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: español como lengua de herencia

Resumen:

This study measured the impact of explicit instruction on accent usage in the written production of Spanish heritage language (SHL) learners. 163 university students were divided into two types of basic?and intermediate?level SHL courses: one in which they received explicit instruction regarding accent marks (EI), and another in which they did not (non-EI). Findings suggest that the effectiveness of explicit instruction depends upon level of study and task type. In EI, the accuracy of first semester SHL students improved significantly, while their counterparts in non-EI course showed no appreciable gains. The case of intermediate-level learners, who had some prior formal study, was more variable. Although high-, mid-, and low-performing learners in second semester EI courses showed significant improvement in a dictation task (while...

Ver ficha completa

Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pronunciación

Resumen:

The current study analyzes vowel quality production across the lexical factors of cognate status and timing of word introduction, the linguistic factor of vowel position (pre-tonic, tonic, or post-tonic), and individual factors including age of acquisition of Spanish and length of study abroad. Participants were 29 intermediate second language Spanish learners who completed an oral text reading task. Results found that learners pronounced vowels differently in early as compared to later introduced words and in tonic (stressed) position compared to unstressed (pre-tonic/post-tonic) position. However, cognate status and individual factors were in general not statistically significant. These results lead us to suggest that pronunciation instruction should ideally begin early in the acquisition process and include explanations of vowel...

Ver ficha completa

Tipo: libro

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: tecnología educativa

Resumen:

Although new technologies are embedded in students? lives today, there is often an assumption that their use is transparent, inconsequential, or a distraction. This book combines complex systems theory with sociocultural theory and the multimodal theory of communication, providing an innovative theoretical framework to examine how communication and meaning-making in the language classroom have developed over time, how technology impacts on meaning-making, and what the implications are for learners, teachers, institutions and policy makers. Recent studies provide evidence for the disruptive effect of technology which has resulted in a phase shift that is reshaping language education by creating new interaction patterns, allowing for multimodal communication, and introducing real-world communication into the classroom. The book proposes...

Ver ficha completa

Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: herramientas

Resumen:

Texto completo (español)
Texto completo (inglés)

En los intercambios virtuales, el primer contacto entre los estudiantes es un momento clave, ya que determina la forma en la que los estudiantes se relacionarán entre sí durante todo el proceso de aprendizaje. La aplicación Flipgrid puede resultar una herramienta útil para desarrollar una primera toma de contacto tanto en proyectos de telecolaboración como en contextos educativos digitales. El objetivo de este artículo es explorar las estrategias técnicas, comunicativas y afectivas que los estudiantes que participaron en...

Ver ficha completa