Tipo: trabajo fin de máster

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: tecnología educativa

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El presente trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo indagar acerca de la manera en que los estudiantes se desenvuelven grupalmente en proyectos colaborativos realizados utilizando principalmente una herramienta digital que permite la creación y edición de trabajos escritos de manera grupal. El uso de este instrumento de la web social facilita a los profesores establecer prácticas de monitoreo a lo largo de todo el proceso de escritura ya que habilita el registro de todos los cambios que se realizan en los documentos sobre los que se trabaja. También se analizaron las creencias y las percepciones de los aprendientes sobre la herramienta y el trabajo con ella luego de poner en práctica...

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Tipo: libro

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: metodología de investigación

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Este libro reúne los fundamentos de la metodología de la investigación en ELE, en el marco de la lingüística aplicada a la adquisición de segundas lenguas, una información hasta ahora dispersa. Ofrece las pautas imprescindibles para desarrollar una investigación en ELE en todas sus fases, desde la elección del tema y el diseño, pasando por la determinación del método y los instrumentos que se utilizarán, aspecto este que se trata con especial atención, hasta la ejecución y estructuración del trabajo, el análisis y la valoración de los resultados o su transferencia y difusión. Por todo ello, sirve como compendio de estudio y consulta para cualquiera que desee investigar el proceso de adquisición, aprendizaje y enseñanza del ELE desde diversas perspectivas. Esta obra concita a veintitrés autores de reconocido prestigio académico en un...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión oral

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Esta investigación gira en torno al análisis de las estrategias de comunicación en la interacción oral en los manuales de ELE. Se hace una revisión de los fundamentos metodológicos existentes en el tratamiento a las estrategias de comunicación y se definen las características y la naturaleza de etas estrategias. A pesar de los numerosos estudios sobre las estrategias de comunicación, siguen latentes muchos de los interrogantes especialmente aquellos que hacen referencia a la necesidad y enseñanza de dichas estrategias, así como no existe una secuencia de pautas del entrenamiento estratégico generalmente aceptado que el docente pueda aplicar en el aula, sino que debe adaptar a la situación de aprendizaje alguno de los múltiples modelos del entrenamiento estratégico. La relevancia del trabajo consiste en la propuesta de la plantilla de...

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Tipo: capítulo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: competencia intercultural

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Due to competing demands of university students, short-term study abroad trips are on the rise. The present study is the only study that has explored a trip of less than one week and the ways in which L2 participants have developed their intercultural competence daily. This study was small in scale, since only two second language (L2) learners of Spanish studied abroad. In addition, this study used Merriam—s (1998) case study framework to illuminate the case of two L2 learners and their short-term fiveday study abroad experience. Analyses of surveys and Deardorff—s (2012) Intercultural Competence (IC) self-reflection, coupled with field notes, revealed that participants' daily fluctuations of up to 18.7% did...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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Teacher training programs and models recognize research engagement as a key competency of qualified professionals. However, despite current calls from scholars to bridge the divide between research and practice in second language teaching, little is known about how teaching professionals engage with existing research or carry out their own research. This study is the first to address this issue with regards to Spanish Language Teaching (SLT) professionals, aiming to understand if and how they engage with and in research, and identify what they would need to increase their engagement. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of online survey responses from 1,675 SLT professionals from 84 countries show that research engagement is dependent on the job description. Coding of freetext responses into eight themes (motivation, prestige,...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pronunciación

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Different methods to acquire a language can contribute differently to learning success. In the present study we tested the success of L2 stress contrasts acquisition, when ab initio learners were taught or not about the theoretic nature of L2 stress contrasts. In two 4-hour perceptual training methods, French-speaking listeners received either (a) explicit instructions about Spanish stress patterns and perception activities commonly used in L2 pronunciation courses or (b) no explicit instructions and a unique perception activity, a shape/word matching task. Results showed that French-speaking listeners improved their ability to identify and discriminate stress contrasts in Spanish after training. However, there was no significant difference between explicit and non-explicit training nor was there an effect on stress processing under...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: estudios de género

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Recent findings indicate that native speakers (L1) use grammatical gender marking on articles to facilitate the processing of upcoming nouns. Conversely, adult second language (L2) learners for whom grammatical gender is absent in their first language appear to need near-native proficiency to behave like native speakers. The question addressed here is whether sensitivity to grammatical gender in L2 learners of Spanish is modulated by the cognate status of nouns due to their heightened parallel orthographic, phonological, morpho-syntactic and semantic activation. Additionally, the role of transparent and non-transparent word-final gender marking cues was examined because past studies have shown that native speakers of Spanish are sensitive to differences in gender transparency. Participants were English learners of Spanish and Spanish...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pronunciación

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The goal of this work was to explore the training, classroom practices, and beliefs related to pronunciation of instructors of languages other than English. While several investigations of this type have been conducted in English as a second/foreign language contexts, very little is known about the beliefs and practices of teachers of languages other than English. It is unknown whether recent shifts to focusing on intelligibility, as advocated by some pronunciation scholars, are borne out in foreign language classrooms. To fill this gap, instructors of Spanish (n = 127), French (n = 89), and German (n = 80) teaching basic language courses (i.e. the first four semesters) at 28 large (e.g. more than 15,000 students), public universities in the United States completed an online survey reporting on their training, classroom practices, and...

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Tipo: libro

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: español como lengua de herencia

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n the United States, heritage language speakers represent approximately 22 percent of the population and 29 percent of the school-age population. Until now, though, few studies have examined the outcomes of classroom teaching of heritage languages.

Outcomes of University Spanish Heritage Language Instruction in the United States sheds light on the effectiveness of specific instructional methods for college-level heritage learners. The first of its kind, this volume addresses how receiving heritage classroom instruction affects Spanish speakers on multiple levels, including linguistic, affective, attitudinal, social, and academic outcomes. Examining outcomes of instruction in the Spanish language—the most common heritage language in the United States—provides insights that can be applied to instruction in other heritage...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación

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The current study investigates how foreign language enjoyment (FLE), foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) and attitude/motivation (AM) of 360 learners of English, German, French and Spanish in a Kuwaiti university was shaped over the course of one semester by three teacher behaviours: frequency of using the foreign language (FL) in class, predictability and frequency of joking. Linear mixed modelling revealed a positive relationship between the three teacher behaviours and FLE as well as AM, but no significant relationship emerged with FLCA. Multiple comparison analyses showed that levels of FLE dropped significantly among students whose teacher joked very infrequently and infrequently. It thus seems that the absence of teacher jokes had a delayed cumulative effect on FLE. No interaction effects were found with time for FLCA and...

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