Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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En los últimos años, los grandes modelos de lenguaje (LLMs, por sus siglas en inglés) han demostrado una alta capacidad para comprender y generar texto en español. Sin embargo, con quinientos millones de hablantes nativos, la española no es una lengua homogénea, sino rica en variedades diatópicas que se extienden a ambos lados del Atlántico. Por todo ello, evaluamos en este trabajo la capacidad de nueve modelos de lenguaje de identificar y discernir las peculiaridades morfosintácticas y léxicas de siete variedades de español (andino, antillano, caribeño continental, chileno, español peninsular, mexicano y centroamericano y rioplatense) mediante un test de respuesta múltiple. Los resultados...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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El proceso de nivelación de estudiantes extranjeros en cursos de español como lengua extranjera (ELE) es fundamental para garantizar una enseñanza acorde con sus competencias lingüísticas. Actualmente, la nivelación se realiza mediante la evaluación manual de pruebas iniciales de vocabulario, escritura, comprensión oral y comprensión escrita, lo que supone una alta carga de trabajo y retrasos en la clasificación, especialmente cuando llega una época con un gran número de estudiantes no nativos del idioma. El presente estudio explora el uso del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (PLN) para automatizar la evaluación de la expresión escrita, investigando la aplicación de GPT-3.5, un modelo del...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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This study empirically investigated the application of a large language-model-driven artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot in self-regulated vocabulary acquisition among Chinese private college students. An 8-week experiment comparing AI-chatbot-assisted and conventional self-regulated vocabulary learning demonstrated that AI chatbot assistance could significantly improve vocabulary performance both across and within groups. Results revealed that the use of AI chatbot not only improved learning outcomes directly through personalized, self-paced learning but also indirectly by enhancing vocabulary learning strategy use and satisfying basic psychological needs. Notably, metacognitive strategy use fully mediated the relationship between perceived autonomy and vocabulary performance. Moreover, perceived autonomy moderated the effect of the...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: lingüística cognitiva

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This paper aims to explore the shortcomings and challenges of Applied Cognitive Linguistics (ACL) in L2 classrooms and research. It examines the main issues and presents a case study with three quasi-experimental classroom studies. These experiments taught the Spanish past simple tenses using approaches informed by Cognitive Linguistics and Communicative Language Teaching, plus a control group, through a pretest/posttest design. Results favored cognitive-pedagogical instruction, but only in one production task (Alonso-Aparicio & Llopis-García, 2019). Subsequent studies replicated and extended the first, with further changes in instruction and assessment design, but found no significant differences between experimental groups in the posttest. The discussion highlights the steps taken to ensure study success, pointing out...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: gramática

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Applied Cognitive Linguistics (ACL, henceforth) offers a vision of language closely tied to our experiences and views of the world, showing great promise for foreign language teaching and learning. Building upon this meaning-centered perspective, this paper discusses an interventional, quasi-experimental study assessing the effectiveness of incorporating animated images into materials for teaching comparative constructions in L2 Spanish. Conducted in three phases with varying participation rates (69 students in the first, 18 in the second, and 27 in the third), the study faced numerous factors that hindered data collection process and thereby influenced the results. Although the findings were not statistically significant, they suggest a slight improvement in post-test performance in both the experimental and comparison groups. While...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: lingüística cognitiva

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This review study focuses on the challenges faced when conducting effects-of-instruction research in Applied Cognitive Linguistics. It offers an overview of relevant research that has sought to demonstrate the effectiveness of a cognitive-based approach to second language (L2) pedagogy and provides illustrations from previous work in L2 Spanish by the author and colleagues of some of the factors that can influence findings in quasi-experimental research. More specifically, the study addresses some of the difficulties encountered in the design of materials and assessment tests, during the pedagogical intervention and the data collection and data analysis phases. These include choice of assessment, test effects, sample size, withdrawal, and time-on-task, among others. Along with these methodological issues, a discussion of possible...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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There has been little research investigating the effects of notetaking on foreign language (FL) learning, and no studies have examined how it affects vocabulary learning. The present study investigated the vocabulary written in notes of 86 students after they had listened to a teacher in an English as a foreign language (EFL) class. The results showed that 51.2% of participants took notes, and 32.6% wrote information about target words in notes. However, there were only 95 instances of information written about the 28 target words. The results revealed that the odds of vocabulary learning were 15 and 10 times higher in the...

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Tipo: tesis doctoral

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión oral

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The following study tested the effect of synchronous and non-synchronous speech conditions in the production of L2 speech rhythm in Spanish. Namely, it assessed the production of American English speakers of Spanish with intermediate and upper-intermediate levels of competence in Spanish (n = 31) in comparison to the L1 speech rhythm of a control group of native speakers of Spanish (n = 32). For this purpose, speech samples were elicited from a reading aloud task, including four speech conditions: 1) Synchrony live condition; 2) Synchrony with the recording from the live condition; 3) Synchrony with a recording from a non-live condition; and, 4) Solo recording condition. The analysis of the results showed that the speech rhythm of the experimental group and the control group was modulated by the different conditions of the...

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Tipo: libro

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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This book provides a forum for methodological discussions emanating from researchers engaged in studying how individuals acquire an additional language. Whereas publications in the field of second language acquisition generally report on empirical studies with relatively little space dedicated to questions of method, the current book gave authors the opportunity to more fully develop a discussion piece around a methodological issue in connection with the interpretation of language-learning data. The result is a set of seven thought-provoking contributions from researchers with diverse interests. Three main topics are addressed in these chapters: the role of native-speaker norms in second-language analyses, the impact of epistemological stance on experimental design and/or data interpretation, and the challenges of transcription and...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: gramática

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Este estudio aborda la problemática que entraña el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de las emociones en las construcciones inversas con verbos psicológicos (p. ej. me gusta) en el aula de Español Lengua Extranjera (ELE). En estas construcciones, un Estímulo externo actúa sobre un Experimentador y genera en este un evento mental particular (p. ej. sentimiento de agrado). Examinamos exhaustivamente este tipo de construcciones en 10 manuales de ELE con el fin de dilucidar su tratamiento y partimos de la hipótesis de que su explicación gramatical no incorpora aspectos comunicativo-cognitivos. Los resultados del análisis cualitativo evidencian, en su mayoría, un tratamiento comunicativo de estas formas lingüísticas, pero también formalista, desistematizado y poco cognitivo; eso explicaría, en parte, las dificultades que presentan los...

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