Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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This study explores how 30 Korean English as a foreign language (EFL) learners at three proficiency levels (CEFR A2, B1, and B2) manage third position repair during voice-based role-play tasks with ChatGPT-4. Over 12 hours and 30 minutes of recorded interactions were analyzed using conversation analysis, complemented by retrospective verbal reports (RVRs) to capture both interactional patterns and learner perceptions. The findings show clear proficiency-related differences. A2 learners (n = 10) consistently abandoned repair, either by switching to their first language or abruptly terminating the conversation, and none of their TPR sequences resulted in successful repair. B1 learners (n = 10) managed repair partially through simple repetition or confirmation checks but often prioritized progressivity over intersubjectivity;...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: juegos

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Promoting English as a foreign language (EFL) students’ reading comprehension, improving their reading motivation, and reducing their anxiety have always been the focus of EFL researchers. Educational board games have gradually received attention from educators. Various studies have found that board game-based teaching can improve students’ learning performance, motivation, and classroom engagement, and contribute to increasing discussion. However, there are few discussions on board games in the field of EFL, so further discussion is necessary to fill the research gap of board games in EFL reading comprehension. This study developed a dual-hierarchical scaffolding board game activity framework integrating game-based learning (GBL) and scaffolding strategies, and used card board games as teaching materials to promote EFL students’...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación

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Research on young learners’ motivation in second language (L2) acquisition has expanded considerably, yet pronunciation-specific motivation remains largely overlooked, particularly in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) contexts. At the same time, gender has frequently been claimed as a source of variation in L2 motivation and pronunciation attainment, although recent evidence from primary-school CLIL settings suggests that such differences may be far less pronounced than traditionally assumed. This study compares English pronunciation motivation across CLIL and non-CLIL programs in Spanish primary education learners and between boys and girls within each type of instruction. A total of 337 pupils in Grades 3 and 4 from five semiurban schools in a monolingual region of northern Spain (3 CLIL, 2 non-CLIL) completed a 38-...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: comprensión oral

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En este estudio partimos de dos referencias básicas para la enseñanza del E/LE: el Marco Común Europeo de Referencia para las lenguas (Consejo de Europa 2001) y el Plan Curricular del Instituto Cervantes (Instituto Cervantes 2006). El proyecto presentado obedece a la necesidad de subsanar los problemas de comprensión auditiva que presenta el alumnado chino. Como estos grupos-meta están poco acostumbrados a aprender con estrategias distintas a las implicadas en la memorización, partimos de la hipótesis de que el desarrollo de las estrategias de comprensión audiovisual y el trabajo cooperativo les haría, por una parte, más competentes en la comprensión auditiva y audiovisual, y, por otra, en la...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: diferencias individuales

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Ambiguity tolerance reflects learners’ abilities to accept unpredictable and unfamiliar contexts in language learning without frustration and discomfort. However, it has yet to be thoroughly explored when associated with engagement, motivation, and peer collaboration collaborative learning in course of English as a foreign language (EFL) learning. Relying on questionnaire survey data, this study adopts structural equation modeling techniques based on 1,200 Chinese high school students’ responses. The findings ascertain that engagement and volition significantly and positively predict ambiguity tolerance and learning effectiveness. Additionally, ambiguity tolerance predicts learning effectiveness. For peer collaborative learning, ambiguity tolerance and learning effectiveness are also critical predictors. They significantly and...

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Tipo: capítulo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: actitudes lingüísticas

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Capítulo introductorio del volumen dedicado a la variedad castellana, en el que los directores del proyecto exponen su marco teórico y metodológico.

Precisan los conceptos de percepción, creencias y actitudes lingüísticas, sitúan el castellano en la historia de la estandarización del español y detallan el instrumento del proyecto: una encuesta de técnica de máscaras (matched guise) con dieciséis grabaciones —lectura de texto y habla espontánea— de locutores cultos de ocho...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos

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The present multiple case study is situated within the growing wave of research on the role of emotions in second language learning. It focuses more specifically on the relationship between emotion, motivation, willingness to communicate and the second language context. The participants were two adult learners of English as a second or other language (ESOL) in the United Kingdom: Aurora and Emilie (pseudonyms). Semi-structured interviews with the learners and their tutors, conducted face to face, were complemented with lesson observations over an academic term to achieve an in-depth understanding of the relationship between emotion, motivation, willingness to communicate and the learning context. Enjoyment and anxiety were the most salient emotions that emerged; however, the sources of these emotions were slightly different for the...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión escrita

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Second/foreign language writing consists of a cycle of three phases (i.e., forethought, performance, and reflection) that interact with each other. However, studies on the interaction of these different phases are limited. Self-regulated strategies are used and enacted differently across these phases of second/foreign language writing, forming sequential relationships within the strategic system. However, the interconnections among phase-specific strategies (especially the theoretically directional relationships across these three phases) remain underexplored. Combining structural equation modeling and thematic analysis, this study explored the impact of pre-writing task perception on post-writing feedback handling, with five during-writing task implementation strategies as mediators and second/foreign language writing proficiency as...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación

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Demotivation (Dörnyei & Ushioda, 2011) and non-participation (Norton, 2001) characterize negative responses to classroom practice of a generally chronic nature. In this article, focus is directed to negativity that emerges within the context of a particular language developing activity, and which can be understood as a situated response to the activity’s demands. In conceptualizing negative responses at the activity level, disaffection – the negative face of engagement – is a construct of central importance. Drawing on data from a large-scale ethnographic project in secondary English classrooms in Sweden, in this exploratory case study disaffection (Skinner, 2016) is examined in the context of two language developing activities. Analyses reveal that disaffection can transform into active engagement, and that when called upon to...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: dramatización

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Drama serves as an innovative teaching method, particularly within education. It offers a mode of learning that both challenges and supports students in understanding their world, allowing them to express and convey ideas through an artistic medium. Drama is crucial in the teaching of languages and also helps to develop learners’ intercultural communication skills, stimulates learners’ sense of cooperation, and provides a simulated real social environment, authentic communication tasks, and a holistic learning method. Therefore, the present article aims to examine how drama contributes to the teaching of the Chinese language. The reason behind conducting the current study is to explore the specific benefits of drama in language teaching, particularly within the unique Chinese context. Data was gathered using a questionnaire survey...

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