Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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The purpose of this study is to explore students' attitudes and perceived usefulness of using ChatGPT for learning a foreign language. The authors conducted qualitative research by using a questionnaire survey based on hands-on experience by university students. The findings reveal that students are fascinated, satisfied, and stimulated to use this technology despite some of their reservations and potential threats. The authors also list pedagogical implications, including specific activities. Although ChatGPT can be very beneficial for teachers, it sets a challenging task for them to change the existing teaching approaches and assessments to boost students' cognitive,...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: interacción

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The purpose of the following study was to investigate what Swain has labeled “comprehensible output” (Swain 1985). Negotiated interactions between a native English speaker (NS) and ten nonnative speakers (NNSs) of English were examined to find out how the nonnative speakers made their interlanguage utterances comprehensible when the native speaker indicated difficulty in understanding them. On the basis of theoretical work and anecdotal evidence from NS-NNS interaction, it was believed that the NNSs would respond to the NS by modifying interlanguage morphosyntax, phonology, and lexicon and, in so doing, would employ more target-like use of English. Results of the study offered somewhat limited confirmation of these beliefs. The data revealed that the NNSs were, indeed, capable of modifying their interlanguage in response to the NS’s...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: atención a la forma

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Compara dos formas de dirigir la atención del aprendiente a un rasgo gramatical: la instrucción formal explícita y la realización de tareas de concienciación gramatical en las que la estructura se convierte en el contenido de una actividad de resolución de problemas en grupo.

Método: dos grupos de estudiantes universitarios japoneses de inglés, con tres estructuras meta y pruebas de reconocimiento posteriores a un plazo de una y dos semanas. Resultado: ambos procedimientos producen una ganancia significativa y equivalente en la capacidad de advertir (noticing) la estructura en el input posterior. La autora concluye que la tarea gramatical permite integrar la atención a la forma en un programa comunicativo sin renunciar a la...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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This qualitative study, drawing on positioning analysis, examines four world language teachers' reported practices of integrating ChatGPT into their instruction. The participants were enrolled in the graduate-level Applied Linguistics or Spanish Language Teaching program at a public university in the southcentral US. This study addresses two research questions: (1) How did world language teachers position themselves and others in relation to their integration of ChatGPT into teaching… (2) What factors mediated their ChatGPT-supported instruction? The analyses of interview transcripts and weekly reports revealed that the world language teachers positioned themselves as active agents, assuming dynamic roles vis-à-vis ChatGPT (i.e., ChatGPT guide, explorer, manager, and ...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the experiences of language learners and teachers in the use of ChatGPT during the language learning and teaching process. Phenomenological design, a type of qualitative research, was used. Participants were 8 English language learners and 3 English language teachers with teaching experience at different levels, selected through purposive sampling; the interview technique was used as the data collection instrument. The findings revealed that ChatGPT and AI were considered to be useful tools for language learning and teaching, although they presented some challenges that can be overcome with the advancement of technology.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos

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Artículo que define la ansiedad ante la lengua extranjera como un constructo propio, distinto de la ansiedad general, y no como un simple trasvase de otras ansiedades al aula de idiomas.

Los autores la describen a partir de tres componentes —aprensión comunicativa, miedo a la evaluación negativa y ansiedad ante los exámenes— y presentan la Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS), una escala de 33 ítems cuya fiabilidad y validez comprueban con estudiantes universitarios. La escala se ha convertido en el instrumento de referencia de esta línea de investigación.

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: feedback/retroalimentación

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This study examines the role of task-based conversation in second language (L2) grammatical development, focusing on the short-term effects of both negative feedback and positive evidence on the acquisition of two Japanese structures. The data are drawn from 55 L2 learners of Japanese at a beginning level of proficiency in an Australian tertiary institution. Five different types of interactional moves made by native speaker interlocutors during task-based interaction were identified, by way of which learners received implicit negative feedback and positive evidence about the two target structures. The relative frequency of each interactional move type was calculated, and associated changes in the learners’ performance on immediate and delayed posttests were examined. It was found that, although native speaker interactional moves...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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Encuesta a 116 docentes de lenguas extranjeras de centros griegos sobre su uso y su percepción de las herramientas de inteligencia artificial, con atención a cómo la instrucción diferenciada y el aula invertida pueden potenciarse con IA. Los resultados muestran actitudes positivas y un uso ya extendido para personalizar el aprendizaje según las capacidades de cada estudiante, con influencia significativa de la edad, los años de experiencia docente y la familiaridad con la IA. Los autores señalan como laguna que apenas se ha investigado cómo puede utilizarse la IA en entornos de aula invertida, y reclaman más formación del profesorado.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: study abroad/estudios en el extranjero

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Compara el desarrollo morfosintáctico y léxico de estudiantes universitarios estadounidenses de español según el contexto de aprendizaje: un semestre de estancia en el extranjero en Alicante frente a un semestre de aula en la universidad de origen.

Método: análisis de un corpus de entrevistas orales (OPI) antes y después, con medidas de complejidad sintáctica, corrección morfológica y riqueza y densidad léxicas. Resultado: los estudiantes de estancia aventajan a los de aula en variedad léxica y en narratividad, pero no en el desarrollo gramatical, donde el grupo de aula obtiene mejores resultados. El artículo forma parte del número monográfico de la revista dedicado al study abroad.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: input

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In this paper we describe an experiment in explicit instruction that compares traditional form-focused instruction and what we call processing instruction. Traditional instruction involves explanation and output practice of a grammatical point. Processing instruction involves explanation and practice/experience processing input data, taking learner strategies in input processing as the starting point for determining what explicit instruction should look like. Pretest and posttest measures involving both a sentence-level interpretation (comprehension) task and a sentence-level production task were submitted to an analysis of variance. Results reveal significant gains in both comprehension and production for subjects who experienced processing instruction. For those experiencing traditional instruction, significant gains were made in...

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