Tipo: libro

Temas: español como lengua extranjera

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Spoken as a foreign language by around 24 million people worldwide, Spanish can be the second language (L2) of monolingually raised learners who acquire it in school. Ever more often it is also the third or a further language (L3) of learners who have previously studied another foreign language (for example Spanish after English in Germany) or who acquired more than one language during early childhood, as is the case with heritage speakers. This book explores the intersections between linguistics and language pedagogy related to the acquisition of L2 and L3 Spanish in various contexts worldwide. Fostering the interdisciplinary dialogue, it combines contributions by linguists and specialists in didactics, which not only examine the interface between basic linguistic and applied research but also develop proposals and materials for...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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This study investigated which type of instructional modality is most conducive to vocabulary learning. A total of 6 classrooms (N = 121), all from one 6th grade cohort, were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: (1) vocabulary training anchored in listening, (2) vocabulary training anchored in reading, or (3) vocabulary training anchored in writing. Three parallel versions of the tasks involved 21 target words embedded in contexts, but the students encountered these words explicitly through either listening or reading or writing modality. The study found, first, that there were statistically significant differences in favor of the reading and writing groups in terms of word association ability and vocabulary knowledge. Students in the reading and writing groups showed roughly the same level of vocabulary knowledge. Second, the...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: tecnología educativa

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Este estudio aborda la cuestión de la transferencia de la investigación en la adquisición de segundas lenguas (SLA) a la instrucción de segundas lenguas y lenguas extranjeras (L2), más concretamente en el marco del Enseñanza de Lenguas Basada en Tareas (TBLT). El objetivo principal es mostrar cómo la herramienta web taskGen (https://taskgen.eu), cuyo primer uso es la creación de materiales didácticos, también funciona como medio para la transferencia y proporciona información valiosa sobre  prácticas de enseñanza, necesidades de los profesores, estrategias pedagógicas y diseño de tareas en L2.

En primer lugar, se presenta taskGen como una...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: redes sociales

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This systematic review aims to explore social media integration in K?12 foreign language (FL) classrooms in the past decade and discusses the unique challenges of adopting social media in K?12 FL teaching. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines and selection criteria, 12 studies between 2010 and 2019 were selected. Adopting a grounded analytical method, this review provides a synthesis of the affordances and challenges of social media integration in K?12 FL education. Based on the data analysis, an effective approach to integrating social media in K?12 FL education is proposed, to connect formal and informal learning environments. This review concludes with suggestions and directions for future research on the integration of social media in K?12 FL classrooms.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión escrita

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Este artículo explora el potencial de JASP (Jeffreys's Amazing Statistics Program, https://jasp-stats.org/) como herramienta estadística robusta para avanzar en la investigación sobre la Adquisición de Segundas Lenguas (ASL), con un énfasis específico en su aplicación dentro del dominio de la escritura en L2. El dominio de la escritura en una segunda lengua es una habilidad compleja y polifacética, que exige una investigación empírica rigurosa para descubrir patrones y perspectivas matizados. JASP, conocido por su interfaz fácil de usar y sus avanzadas capacidades estadísticas, se perfila como un instrumento prometedor para los...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: vocabulario

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According to Hopp?s Lexical Bottleneck Hypothesis, difficulties in second language (L2) lexical processing may lead to non-target syntactic computations. In line with this hypothesis, cognates ? which are processed faster than non-cognates, as defined by the cognate facilitation effect ? can ease L2 syntactic processing. In order to investigate whether cognates additionally facilitate L2 syntax learning, we had two groups of Spanish natives learn an artificial language drawing on Basque. Each group explicitly learnt a set of either Spanish?Basque cognates or non-cognates and a word order grammatical rule. Then, two sentence?picture matching tasks tested their ability to apply the rule (1) with...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enfoque por tareas

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Most research on task-based language teaching (TBLT) has focused on specific factors that play a role in task-based performance and learning, whereas considerably fewer studies have paid attention to how TBLT curricula have been developed and delivered in second language (L2) teaching contexts. However, it has been argued that the latter type of evaluative inquiry is crucial in order to advance the educational significance of the approach. While more evaluation studies have been published in recent years, few of them adopt a multi-...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: telecolaboración e intercambios virtuales

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La comunicación mediatizada por computadora (Computer-mediated communication) ha abierto nuevas formas de interacción entre los aprendientes de una lengua extranjera proporcionando nuevas oportunidades para establecer contacto directo con los nativo-hablantes de la cultura meta. Los intercambios/proyectos en línea han permitido a los participantes aprender acerca de la cultura meta en formas auténticas que van más allá del salón de clase. En este artículo se consideran aspectos principales:

1. Los contextos socio-institucionales que influencian proyectos telecolaborativos.
2. Los estereotipos y la forma en que estos pueden ser cambiados, reforzados o modificados como resultados...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: expresión escrita

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The potential of model texts as a feedback instrument (MTFI) in second language (L2) writing has been explored for about two decades and continues to receive increasing interest from L2 scholars. However, to date, there is still an absence of a comprehensive review of studies in this particular area. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) procedure, this study aims to fill this gap by systematically reviewing 25 empirical studies on MTFI dating up to 1 April 2023, specifically focusing on three main aspects: study contexts, methodological characteristics, and primary areas of focus and key findings. The results revealed that existing MTFI studies (1) largely targeted low-intermediate English as a foreign language (EFL) learners at primary schools, (2) primarily adopted a quasi-...

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Tipo: libro

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pronunciación

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The main aim of this book is to contribute to our understanding of the acquisition of second language intonation, by comparing Czech learners of Spanish with German learners of Spanish and Czech learners of Italian. By means of a large production database, the study seeks to uncover how L1-to-L2 intonational transfer works and what role prosodic (dis)similarities between languages play. Contrary to most previous research, the work presents an original multidirectional cross-linguistic comparison and examines different types of sentence, such as neutral and non-neutral statements, yes/no questions, wh-questions, exclamatives and vocatives. The findings reveal positive and negative...

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