Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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The present study offers insights on understanding motivation to learn a second language (L2) through implementation of the Exploratory Practice principles within the context of English as a foreign language at a university in Spain, and on discovering opportunities to enhance this. The account sits within the domain of the possible selves and the theoretical framework of the L2 Motivational Self System. Student-led visualisation – a twist on teacher-led visualisation – is the key ‘Potentially Exploitable Pedagogic Activity’ (PEPA), explored as a device for inviting a near-future L2 self-guide into the here-and-now. This PEPA evolved out of stages of understanding, including student dismissal as ‘fantasies’ their possible professional L2 selves in a remoter future. Through classroom observation, template analysis of imagery scripts,...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: evaluación

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Guided by sociocultural theory, this single-case narrative inquiry views language assessment literacy development as a process of language assessment concept formation and examines how a teacher’s language assessment concepts were formed, what sociocultural elements mediated those concept formations, and how the focal teacher emotionally experienced those concept formations. To fulfill these aims, approximately 15 hours of audio and video data were collected from a novice Vietnamese teacher of English as a foreign language via interviews, classroom observations, and verbal reports. The data were transformed into narrative vignettes which were then subject to directed content analysis guided by...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: AICLE/CLIL

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Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) requires a synthesis of language and content teaching. However, language teachers who are employed to teach CLIL may lack the preparation and knowledge to teach other curriculum subjects. It is therefore necessary to understand how language CLIL teachers make subject-specific language comprehensible to students when they themselves are unfamiliar with subject-specific terms and concepts. However, no research has yet been conducted to explore this in the Thai context. To address this gap, this article presents the findings of a qualitative study exploring pre-service teachers’ use of language modification as negotiation of meaning (NoM) strategies to make accessible subject-specific terms or concepts in the target language to students. Data are drawn from language-driven CLIL classroom...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enfoque por tareas

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This study investigated the relationship between task-based teacher training and novice English language teachers’ cognitions and implementations of tasks in Honduran bilingual schools. After participating in a four-week training program on task-based language teaching, teachers with little or no prior teaching experience designed task-based lessons and were video-recorded implementing those lessons with English language learners ages 5 to 12. Following the classroom observation, teachers participated in a stimulated recall interview. A rubric aligned with 10 key principles of task-based language teaching (TBLT) as outlined by Long (2015) was used to rate teachers’ performance and code stimulated recalls. Ratings of video observations showed varied success in TBLT implementation after training, with some teachers’ lessons clearly...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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This action research study explored the influence of questioning strategies on fostering critical thinking in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms among Arabic-speaking elementary students in the Arab sector in Israel. Unlike previous studies that either describe questioning patterns or provide experimental interventions, the study described here uniquely integrates action research with conversation analysis (CA), offering both a reflective teaching framework and a rigorous discourse-analytic lens. Using an action research approach combined with CA, the research examined teacher–student interactions in two sixth-grade EFL classes over a 4-month period. Data were collected from recorded classroom lessons and analyzed to identify how different types of questions shape students’ responses and promote critical thinking. The...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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Teacher scaffolding plays a crucial role in shaping the quality of classroom learning, yet little is known about the effective features of scaffolding in classes using content language integrated learning (CLIL), especially in terms of its effects on learners’ language and cognitive development. To address this issue, the study adopts a classroom discourse analysis approach to capture features of effective teacher scaffolding in a CLIL-framed intensive reading class. Results showed a perceived increase in learners’ language and cognitive abilities while also revealing a series of effective teacher scaffolding strategies in CLIL. These include frequent use of dialogic inquiry and incidental feedback in discourse extensions, and the variation of teacher scaffolding strategies in response to students’ learning needs. The findings will...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: adquisición de segundas lenguas

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Estudio con 72 estudiantes de cursos avanzados de composición y gramática de francés, alemán y español en tres universidades del sur de California. Mediante un cuestionario, la observación de dónde se sentaban y de su participación, y las notas finales, los autores comprueban que la gran mayoría (entre el 82 % y el 86 %) había tenido experiencia con la lengua fuera del aula, y analizan cómo esa experiencia se relaciona con la comodidad al hablar en clase, la participación y las notas. El trabajo plantea así los obstáculos que encuentra quien llega a los cursos superiores solo con la formación de los cursos básicos.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de la gramática

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Este artículo muestra una investigación sobre el papel que desempeña la interacción oral en la promoción de la reflexión metalingüística e interlingüística durante la implementación didáctica de una secuencia de gramática vinculada al proyecto Egramint. Esta secuencia aborda el estudio de la expresión de la obligación en español, catalán e inglés y utiliza principalmente el género discursivo de las recetas de cocina. Se implementó en un aula de 1.º de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria de un instituto de Cataluña. A partir del análisis de las intervenciones de alumnos y docente durante una sesión de clase, así como de una entrevista posterior realizada a la profesora, los...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: profesorado

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This study explored the wellbeing of four university-level teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) in China before, during, and after the implementation of a new curriculum. A particular focus was given to their emotion and its impact on their wellbeing. The data was collected over the course of one academic year through three rounds of in-depth interviews, classroom observations, and document analysis. The analysis revealed various factors influencing teacher wellbeing that dynamically fluctuated throughout the reform implementation. Overall, three archetypes of language teacher wellbeing emerged: (1) ambiguous wellbeing, (2) jeopardized wellbeing, and (3) self-actualized wellbeing. Based on the findings, we propose an action-based framework for language teacher wellbeing which highlights its fluctuating nature as teachers...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: ChatGPT

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El desarrollo de la inteligencia artificial (IA) en los últimos años está suponiendo un gran avance tecnológico en todos los ámbitos. Recientemente, la aparición de herramientas como ChatGPT están revolucionando el paradigma de acceso a la información (Kirmani, 2022). En este trabajo, se presentan las ventajas y desventajas que supone el empleo del ChatGPT en la enseñanza de ELE. Además, se listan una serie de consideraciones a tener en cuenta cuando se interactúa con esta IA para obtener unos resultados óptimos (Morales-Chan, 2023). Como muestra de este tipo de comunicación, se presenta un ejemplo de secuencia didáctica diseñada para una clase de preparación al DELE B1, en particular,...

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