Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: comprensión oral

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El presente estudio se centra en investigar los efectos de la instrucción en estrategias sobre la competencia en comprensión auditiva de estudiantes hongkoneses de español. Los participantes en el estudio estaban organizados en dos grupos ?el experimental y el de control? con idénticas características, necesidades, materiales y oportunidades de escucha. En el primero, se implementó un programa de instrucción centrado en el desarrollo de estrategias de aprendizaje para la comprensión auditiva. En el segundo, la comprensión auditiva se trabajó mediante audiciones y actividades de comprensión. En ambos casos, la competencia en comprensión auditiva se midió a través de cuatro pruebas de aprovechamiento. Los resultados sugieren que la instrucción en estrategias repercute positivamente en la competencia en comprensión auditiva de los...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: traducción

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Rooted in socio-constructivism, the present article investigates the effects of type of collaborative translation on Spanish L2 development, triangulating data from task performance, learning outcomes, and learners? perceptions. Thirteen dyads of college students participated in a within-subjects repeated-measures experimental study, translating authentic texts in two ways: collaborating from the get-go and after working alone first. Results showed that while participants translated more lexical items accurately when working together from the get-go, both types of collaborative translation propelled similar learning gains in lexis and grammar. Of the two, only lexical learning was retained after one week. Participants, contrary to results, reported a clear preference for working alone first, which they perceived as more conducive to...

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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: 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: libro

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: metodología de investigación

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What is eye tracking? Why is it important for linguistics? How can I use it in my own research project?

Answering these questions and more, this book guides you through one of the most exciting and innovative research methods in the field of linguistics. Divided into three parts, the chapters first offer an historical introduction and a foundational overview to the neurology and physiology of the eye and the common measurements and tools used in eye tracking. They then provide a guide to the applications of eye tracking most pertinent to linguists (reading, the visual-world paradigm, social eye tracking, and classroom applications), followed by a step-by-step process to plan, execute, analyze and report your research project in eye tracking. The book covers topics such as reading, lexical and syntactic processing, mind...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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The imagination effect occurs when students learn better from imagining concepts and procedures rather than from studying them. Cognitive load theory explains the effect by better use of available working memory resources and increased productive, intrinsic cognitive load. The effect has been found in numerous empirical studies. However, in the majority of studies demonstrating the effect, visual/spatial information has been used: the type of information that is believed to be easy for imagining. The reported two experiments investigated if an imagination effect could be obtained using verbal information in the area of learning a second language. The results indicated that while textual material was expectedly more difficult for learning than diagrammatic material, asking learners to imagine textual material did improve performance....

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: materiales audiovisuales

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Repeated viewing of the same video is a common strategy among autonomous language learners as well as a much used pedagogical strategy among foreign language (FL) teachers. Learners may watch the same video more than once, to increase global comprehension of the target language or to focus their attention on linguistic aspects, such as new vocabulary or pronunciation. This study sought to examine to what extent repetition is more efficient for vocabulary learning if the second viewing follows the first immediately, or a week later. Participants were upper intermediate-level college learners who were distributed into three groups, one watched a TV series episode twice in the same session, one also watched the same episode twice but one week apart, and the last (control) group did not watch the video. Tests of word meaning recognition...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: lingüística cognitiva

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This article lies within the field of applied cognitive linguistics (ACL) and presents empirical work that addresses overlooked effects of assessment typology in second language (L2) learning. It examines whether pairing a cognitive instructional approach with matching assessment design results in greater learning outcomes over the more pervasive notional-functional approaches. The last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of empirical research measuring the effectiveness of ACL-based teaching approaches, yet studies have only been partly fruitful in eliciting data that truly favors ACL. We argue that this is largely due to assessment design, which typically measures performance via correct vs. incorrect tasks. To overcome this caveat, two studies addressing the complex Spanish psych-verb construction (e.g. gustar ?to like?)...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: feedback/retroalimentación

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Recent research indicated the effectiveness of immediate and delayed corrective feedback (CF) on second language (L2) learning. What is little known is the moderating effects of learner individual factors such as foreign language anxiety (FLA) on the efficacy of immediate and delayed CF. The primary aim of the present study is thus to investigate if learners? FLA can moderate the effectiveness of immediate and delayed feedback. To this end, 82 learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) were randomly assigned to two treatment conditions as well as a control group. During three treatment sessions, the participants performed storytelling tasks in groups of four and received either immediate or delayed metalinguistic feedback for the errors they made. Regarding the immediate feedback condition, each participant received...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: lingüística cognitiva

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En un estudio previo comprobamos las ventajas de aprender un conjunto de locuciones idiomáticas del español mediante dos propuestas didácticas basadas en la lingüística cognitiva en las que los participantes reflexionaban sobre la conexión entre la lectura literal y el significado idiomático de estas unidades de manera retroactiva (tras recibir el significado) o proactiva (antes de descubrirlo) (Ureña Tormo et al., 2020). El presente trabajo se centra en abordar las respuestas incorrectas del estudio anterior e identifica cuatro tipos de errores: a) interferencias con el significado de otra locución aprendida; b) significado literal; c) significado sin relación con la locución; d) respuesta...

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