Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: español en el mundo

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This article considers the role of Spanish as a global language by examining its use in London, a global, multilingual and superdiverse city, where Spanish has no official status. I consider how pluricentric norms, panhispanism, and the emerging Nueva Política Lingüística Panhispánica (NPLP) find expression. In particular, I ask how regional and national varieties of Spanish are perceived by L1 and L2 learners and how these attitudes construct local language ideologies held by different actors. I profile two institutions where language ideologies and linguistic practice can be examined. These are: (1) an international Spanish—English bilingual school run as part of Spain—s diplomatic mission; and (2) a language school backed by the Spanish government. I argue that the NPLP is not just about the traditional "pillars" of Spanish...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: español como lengua de herencia

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This article examines the issue of teaching Spanish as a heritage language (SHL) focusing primarily on the issues of linguistic diversity and the socio-affective issues related to heritage language learners. First, we consider linguistic diversity in speech communities where students use SHL. Second, we discuss students' perceptions of the teaching of Spanish in a linguistically diverse setting and draw upon a corpus of interviews with 35 students attending an SHL program at a large southwestern university in the United States. We examine stated perspectives regarding the (mis)match between students' heritage varieties and what is promoted in the classroom. The data reveals the importance of considering the student perspective in validating heritage language varieties and indicate both challenges and insights in achieving this...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: competencia intercultural

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Some challenges to intercultural communication prevent intercultural interactions altogether, while others can prevent effective and successful communication during an intercultural exchange. This article addresses a key challenge within intercultural interactions: cultural meaning-making. This is a process that requires both communicative and intercultural competence and encompasses the interdependent and ever-present relationships between language, culture, and worldviews. Considering the important role of language teachers in second language (L2) learners' cultural meaning-making development in challenging interactions that may be faced by learners in the target language community, the current pilot study elicits teachers' perceptions of linguistic and cultural resources required by their students to engage in challenging...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: creencias y actitudes de los profesores

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This article presents the results of an empirical investigation into the teaching practices and opinions of UK-based Spanish teachers concerning the treatment of language varieties in the L2/FL classroom. Qualitative and quantitative data obtained through an online survey provide the basis for an analysis of participants' knowledge of dialectal varieties and how to teach them, their perceptions of their own and other varieties, and the extent to which they accept new Pan-Hispanic ideologies and the conception of Spanish as a pluricentric language. The study reveals a lack of correlation between teachers' declared knowledge about Spanish dialectal varieties and their own teaching practices.

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Este artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación empírica sobre las opiniones y prácticas docentes...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: variación y variedades del español

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El propósito de este artículo consiste en analizar de manera pormenorizada la integración de las diversas variedades del español y los modelos lingüísticos difundidos en el ámbito de la certificación del español como lengua extranjera. Para ello, se compararán los diferentes sistemas de certificación de alcance internacional y se prestará especial atención a los siguientes exámenes de dominio, destinados a medir la capacidad general de uso real de la lengua meta por parte del candidato: los Diplomas de Español como Lengua Extranjera (DELE), los Certificados de Español: Lengua y Uso (CELU), los Certificados de Español como Lengua Adicional (CELA) y el reciente Servicio Internacional de Evaluación de la Lengua Española (SIELE). A fin de examinar detalladamente cómo se trata en estas pruebas la variación lingüística y su relación con la...

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Tipo: capítulo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: vocabulario

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Until very recently, vocabulary played a role in the production of language teaching materials that was very definitely a secondary one. Although inevitably present in any course book, vocabulary was generally subordinated to other elements that were considered more important to the process of learning a language. Thus, in the 1950s and 1960s, when grammar translation was the dominant approach to language teaching, the lexical content of courses was considered less important than the grammatical content of textbooks. To a large extent, the vocabulary taught was determined by the words that appeared in the works of classical authors whose texts were used for teaching purposes. Later, the structural or audiolingual methods, based on behaviourist theories subordinated the vocabulary to be taught to the linguistic structures that the...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: alfabetización

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En este estudio, describimos cómo aprenden y utilizan el alfabeto español estudiantes de esta lengua que se escolarizaron y alfabetizaron con sistemas de escritura que no se basan en el alfabeto latino (griego, cirílico, devanagari, árabe o chino). También exploramos sus prácticas letradas iniciales y sus estrategias orales y escritas de aprendizaje de una L2. Para ello entrevistamos a 21 hablantes de español como L2, de nivel B2…C1, y documentamos tanto su alfabetización en lengua materna como su acceso posterior al alfabeto latino en español u otro idioma. El corpus de datos recoge prácticas diversas, con variaciones discursivas y retóricas relevantes en relación con las de las...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: creencias y actitudes de los profesores

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Este estudio responde a la necesidad de analizar empíricamente las actitudes lingüísticas de los docentes de ELE/EL2 hacia la variación dialectal. Dichas actitudes influyen de manera significativa en las prácticas docentes, al tratarse de los modelos lingüísticos más inmediatos para los aprendices. Su objetivo principal consiste en validar la existencia de una jerarquía sociolingüística, donde la variedad castellana se encontraría en la cúspide, determinar la influencia del contexto y comparar por primera vez datos recogidos de dos contextos geográficos distantes, España y Australia, lo que permite además reflexionar sobre la situación del español desde una perspectiva global. Para ello, se analizan las respuestas obtenidas de 47 docentes mediante un cuestionario de pares ocultos (verbal guise) centrado en dos dimensiones: estatus y...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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There is general agreement that speed of lexical access is an essential component for successful communication and fluent language use. In vocabulary acquisition research the majority of studies have focused on the acquisition of the form and meaning of new words but research into the teaching conditions leading to the improvement of speed of lexical access is still scarce. This article reports results of two studies which explored the effectiveness of two vocabulary teaching approaches for the development of speed and automaticity of lexical access by learners of Spanish as a foreign language. Participants in Study 1 were exposed to the target vocabulary in reading passages (incidental approach), while participants in Study 2 were exposed to the target words in explicit vocabulary activities (explicit approach). A pre- and post-...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pragmática

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This article examines vague lexical features in unplanned, naturally occurring spoken discourse among speakers of Peninsular Spanish. It focuses on vague multi-word expressions that are part of a larger category of General Extenders (GEs, Overstreet Citation1999). Drawing on a subset of data from the Corpus Oral de Referencia del Español Contemporáneo (COREC), the article describes GEs in terms of form and frequency, and illustrates the use of the three most frequent GEs vis-à-vis discursive and pragmatic functions in spoken discourse. Based on GEs' many and pivotal interactional functions as well as their frequency in attested interactions, this article proposes that language learners...

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