Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: práctica docente

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This study examines whether second-language instructors of Spanish overuse subject personal pronouns (SPPs) to facilitate communication with their English-speaking students, which would be a form of teacher talk. Ten native Spanish-speaking language instructors were recorded in two speech contexts: teaching a third-semester Spanish class to native English-speaking learners and talking with another native Spanish speaker. Logistic regression analyses using GoldVarb revealed that SPP expression was strongly conditioned both by the classroom as a speech context and by the linguistic factors including morphological ambiguity of the verb and switch reference. Crucially, instructors? language in the classroom exhibited elevated and modified use of overt SPPs. This finding contributes to research on the variable use of Spanish SPPs, and it...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: literatura

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In today's globalized world, teaching intercultural competence in educational contexts is of great importance. The potential of foreign language literary texts has been emphasized repeatedly. The present study investigates the value of a content and language integrated learning (CLIL) approach to the teaching of literature in foreign language classrooms for the simultaneous development of intercultural competence and foreign language reading proficiency. An intervention based on integrated intercultural literary pedagogy (IILP) was developed. This longitudinal quasi-experimental study examined the effects of the IILP treatment in a sample of 274 Dutch secondary school students (from seven schools...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: español como lengua de herencia

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Este estudio presenta los resultados de una metasíntesis cualitativa de las publicaciones de corte pedagógico en el campo de la enseñanza del español como lengua de herencia (ELH). El objetivo de la metasíntesis es proporcionar a educadores e investigadores una panorámica de la investigación pedagógica sobre el ELH en su estado actual e identificar sus puntos débiles con el objetivo de permitir y favorecer su progreso. A partir de un cotejo de investigaciones publicadas entre los años 2000 y 2017, en la metasíntesis se identifican las tendencias, los enfoques, las variables, los resultados y las limitaciones de los estudios pedagógicos del ELH. Asimismo, se destacan aquellas áreas que requieren una mayor atención por parte de los investigadores y se trazan posibles tendencias pedagógicas para el futuro.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: corpus

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La precisión en la escritura es de vital importancia en las audiencias académicas y profesionales, en las cuales los errores pueden estigmatizar a quienes escriben. El Feedback Correctivo Escrito (FCE) es un tema crucial en el ámbito de la Adquisición de una Segunda Lengua (ASL) dado que favorece el aprendizaje y contribuye cognitivamente al mejoramiento de los niveles de precisión en una segunda lengua. El objetivo de este artículo es aportar evidencia empírica en el área del  ELE para fines académicos. Para ello, se analiza un corpus de textos académicos de aprendientes africanos de nivel A2, cuyas L1 son portugués e inglés, con el objeto de determinar los errores más frecuentes...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: study abroad/estudios en el extranjero

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The present study reports on the impact of pedagogical intervention on the second language (L2) pragmatic development of seven L2 learners of Spanish during a short-term study abroad (SA) experience in Buenos Aires, Argentina. During pre-departure orientation, the students received 90 minutes of explicit instruction about requests. In the course of their time abroad, the students were given strategic tasks designed to draw their attention to pragmatic features of the host community. Using role plays to measure the effects of the intervention, we compared our students? request strategies before and after SA, and then once again five weeks after their return to the United States. Results indicate that the participants became more target-like in their use of requests from pre-test to post-test, and from pre-test to delayed post-test. Our...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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This study reports on vocabulary learning through service-learning (SL) where Spanish L2 learners participated in a story-time program with bilingual children. The descriptive, observational, and qualitative analysis of data sources (e.g., journals, vocabulary assessments) describes language learning ?sowing? events (van Lier 2000) that supported vocabulary learning/teaching goals: extending learners? meaningful use of the target language, increasing their usable vocabulary, and equipping them with strategies to take charge of their own lexical development (Nation 2013). Framed through sociocultural perspectives, findings show that learners retained vocabulary targeted through their service as a result of doing with the language in a context in which language exchanges were meaningful, creative, and unscripted. Moreover, the activity?...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: español académico

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Presenting in a second language (L2) is perhaps the greatest challenge for international students in a foreign academic context. In this study, we examine the multimodal (verbal and non-verbal) oral performances of two L2 and two L1 groups of Spanish students enrolled in a university Applied Linguistics course. To determine the specific demands and challenges that each group faces, we conducted a questionnaire with 16 participants and carried out an audiovisual discourse analysis of the presentations based on a multimodal framework applied to the use of academic Spanish. It was discovered in the analysis of the data that multimodal competence, the ability to make use of and combine verbal and non-verbal modes of communication to construct and communicate meaning, can compensate for L2 students? linguistic deficiencies. The article...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: español académico

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En los últimos 30 años, los géneros textuales del ámbito académico se han clasificado y seleccionado para su estudio según diferentes criterios de área de circulación, experiencia previa de los autores y lectores, o su relevancia en la comunidad académica, entre otros. Los análisis empíricos muestran que existen diferencias macro y microlingüísticas que caracterizan las producciones desde el punto de vista de la gramática y pragmática discursiva. Estos rasgos diferenciales, como las diversas maneras de estructurar el discurso, citar, asignar un título, glosar o ejemplificar, parecen guardar relación con las culturas universitarias de origen. Esta investigación recoge un panorama completo de los rasgos textuales que se han estudiado en los últimos años en las lenguas académicas, centrándose en aquellas que han sido analizadas...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: español académico

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This study explores the literacy development of students who speak Spanish as a heritage language and who participate in mandatory, peer-to-peer tutoring sessions outside of the classroom. We explore students? academic development as well as their self-positioning as heritage speakers in a bilingual academic setting. Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), we analyze the written production of seven bilingual students enrolled in a Native Speaker Program at a large, public university. We focus on the development of their academic language through the support of a heritage language tutor and explore the role of the peer tutor as a facilitator in this process. Additionally, we employ Appraisal Theory to analyze interviews in which the same participants explore their bilingual identities and how they position themselves...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: español académico

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In the 21st century, international mobility of university students is at an all-time high due to the proliferation of international exchange agreements between institutions around the globe as well as the increased popularity of long-established reciprocal programs. Consequently, courses in language for academic purposes (LAP) have multiplied in recent times to prepare students linguistically to study academic content in an L2. However, in Spanish-speaking universities there are pragmatic and cultural conventions that foreign students need to recognize in order to function appropriately and successfully during their period of study. This article presents the results of an international survey completed by university teachers of L2 Spanish in nine countries in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. The aim of the questionnaire was...

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