Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pragmática

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El lenguaje vago, además de la atenuación, es un aspecto pragmático que ha sido llevado en aula de Español como Lengua Extranjera muy pocas veces. De hecho ni el Marco Común Europeo de Referencia de las Lenguas ni el Plan Curricular del Instituto Cervantes le dan la relevancia que tiene, sobre todo en niveles B y C. En el presente artículo se realiza un acercamiento teórico al lenguaje vago, más concretamente a la utilización de los números. Se muestra parte de una base de datos en la que se han recopilado textos orales de Val.Es.Co. (Valencia Español Coloquial), de CREA (Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual) y del proyecto de Investigación Es.Var.Atenuación (Español Variación y Atenuación)....

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación

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The dynamics of second language learning motivation (L2 motivation), which depends on multiple intra-personal and contextual influences, is increasingly examined. As part of this research trend, we explore the usefulness of a global view of motivation – covering control, value and truth effectiveness – for tracing English majors’ motivational development spanning their entire learning histories. Viewing L2 motivation as a complex system, we employ complex dynamic systems theory and retrodictive qualitative modeling. We created a “blueprint” integrating diverse motivational forces under the three types of effectiveness. Control emerged as crucial as, in interaction with the others, it pushed the motivational system into qualitatively different states, particularly through feedback on progress and the (non-)compatibility of goal foci (...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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The extent to which learners benefit from instruction may be largely dependent on their individual abilities. However, there is relatively little work on the interaction between instructional effectiveness in second language learning and learner individual factors. In this study, we investigated the relationship between instruction, individual differences in cognitive abilities (working memory and declarative memory), and second language vocabulary acquisition in the context of web-based intelligent computer assisted language learning (ICALL). To this end, 127 adult learners of English, predominantly advanced-level, German-speaking learners, read news texts on the web for about two weeks using an ICALL system under two instructional conditions: form-focused and meaning-focused instruction. Learners in the form-focused condition read...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación

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This study aims to test a mediation model to understand how the second language motivational self-system (L2MSS) affects second language (L2) proficiency and intercultural communication competence (ICC) through the mediating effects of foreign language enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom among English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in China. A total of 2,713 Chinese EFL learners, comprising 1,376 English majors and 1,337 non-English majors, voluntarily participated in the present study. Structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis was conducted to analyse the collected data. Additionally, a multigroup SEM approach was applied to compare potential differences between the two major types in the hypothesized relationships. The results revealed that the impacts of the ideal self and learning experience positively and directly predicted...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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This study investigates Vietnamese EFL teachers’ beliefs and practices regarding oral corrective feedback, exploring and seeking to explain some of the relationships between beliefs and classroom practices. Data were collected in primary schools in Vietnam, and consist of 24 classroom observations and interviews with six teachers. Overall, the teachers showed high levels of awareness of the benefits of oral corrective feedback. They nominated pronunciation errors as the most important target for correction in the primary context. In practice, although pronunciation and grammar accounted for the majority of the total errors, leading to the majority of total feedback moves, the frequency of feedback per error was much higher for vocabulary errors. Prompts were reported by teachers to be more effective and more favourable than...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pragmática

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This study investigates the effect of task choice for Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) on pragmatic performance in producing, processing, and negotiating refusal speech acts during interactive role-plays involving refusals to requests and invitations. Task choice was manipulated by varying the degree of cognitive autonomy support provided in generating the content of refusals, resulting in two distinct task conditions. In the ‘non-constraint’ condition, learners independently brainstormed refusal content, whereas in the ‘constraint’ condition, they formulated refusals following predetermined scripts provided by the researcher. Refusal performance was analysed across three dimensions: pragmatic knowledge, processing, and interaction. The findings reveal that task choice exerted a mixed effect on these dimensions...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión escrita

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The present study investigated the potential of writing in English as a foreign language (EFL) for language learning by manipulating cognitive task complexity based on related models and hypotheses. English essays written by 59 Chinese postgraduate EFL students from different subject areas were analysed with reference to writing complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF). Results showed that task complexity had no significant effect on EFL learners’ lexical complexity but had an influence on their syntactic variation in EFL writing. Findings suggest that manipulating writing task complexity could be a feasible means to promoting and enhancing EFL learners’ language learning. Such findings might broaden our understanding of the relationship between EFL writing and language learning in an EFL learning context. The interplay of EFL writing...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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Model texts have been widely recognized as an effective feedback instrument in enhancing second-language (L2) writing. Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), capable of producing humanlike text in response to user prompts, offer an accessible and efficient alternative for generating customized model texts tailored to L2 learners’ specific goals and proficiency levels. Despite this potential, little empirical research has examined L2 students’ practice and perceptions of leveraging GenAI for model text creation to support their revision. To address this gap, this study follows a process approach to investigate students’ prompting strategies to elicit AI-generated model texts, their noticing and incorporation of the model text features, and their perceptions of this process. Data were collected from 12 university...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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Previous research has highlighted the pivotal role of self-efficacy in English writing proficiency among various cultures and educational levels. In higher education, particularly at the graduate level, writing proficiency is crucial for academic success and professional development. Therefore, it is essential to understand factors that influence writing proficiency, such as self-efficacy and self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies. However, there is a gap in research on how distinct profiles of a combination of self-efficacy in writing and self-efficacy in self-regulation among graduate students correlate with the use of SRL strategies, writing performance, and demographic features. To fill this gap, we examined the English writing self-efficacy profiles among 1,308 Chinese graduate students and explored how these profiles are...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: creencias y actitudes de los estudiantes

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This study examined changes in undergraduate students’ language mindsets and academic writing competence as a result of taking a one-semester English for academic purposes (EAP) writing course with a pre–post intervention on mindset. A total of 319 students participated in the study and completed a 10-week EAP course. The participants were administered the mindset questionnaire and the writing test at two different time-points. The results showed that the participants’ level in one component of growth language mindset (general language intelligence beliefs), and scores on the writing test increased significantly. The results of the latent profile analysis revealed three distinctive profiles among the participants at both time-points: Growth profile, Mixed profile, and Fixed profile. The Growth and Mixed profiles were found to perform...

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