Tipo: libro

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: vocabulario

Resumen:

Spanish Vocabulary Learning in Meaning-Oriented Instruction is the first comprehensive overview of current research and instructional practices into Spanish vocabulary acquisition through the lens of Meaning-Oriented Instruction (MOI).

Contenidos

• Introduction: Meaning and Vocabulary: Two Key Elements of Spanish Language Teaching
  Joe Barcroft and Javier Muñoz-Basols
• 1. Identifying Target Spanish Vocabulary: Issues of Regional Variation
  Manuel Díaz-Campos and Laura Merino
• 2. Input, Tasks, and Processing Specificity in Spanish Vocabulary Learning
  Joe Barcroft
• 3. Incidental Learning of L2 Spanish Vocabulary
  María Pilar Agustín-Llach
• 4. Acquisition of Idiomatic Language in L2 Spanish
  Frank Boers and Javier Muñoz-Basols
• 5....

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Tipo: capítulo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: vocabulario

Resumen:

1.    Introducción        
2.    Los antecedentes del Français Fondamental. ¿De dónde venimos?        
3.    Revisión de los estudios de disponibilidad léxica aplicados al español como lengua extranjera y problemas metodológicos que les afectan.       
3.1.    Cuestiones metodológicas: la selección de centros de interés en los trabajos de disponibilidad léxica aplicada a ELE.
4.    Retos de futuro: el problema de la disgregación de los trabajos dedicados a ELE.
5.    Conclusiones
Referencias bibliográficas

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: español como lengua de herencia

Resumen:

In recent years, Heritage Language Programs have been attracting more and more attention in the European academic and educational policy contexts. In Germany, many efforts are being undertaken to foster the teaching of heritage languages in schools. This paper provides an overview of the teaching of Spanish as a Heritage Language in Germany through the long-established Program "Spanish Culture and Language Lessons" (Aulas de Lengua y Cultura Españolas) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education for school-aged Spanish heritage speakers. The principal objectives of the study are to analyze the main fostering and constraining factors to participate in this program and to propose improvement measures. To achieve these purposes, a mixed quantitative and qualitative research methodology has been used. The findings are discussed...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación

Resumen:

At the turn of the new millennium, in an article published in Language Teaching Research in 2000, Dörnyei and Kormos proposed that "active learner engagement is a key concern" for all instructed language learning. Since then, language engagement research has increased exponentially. In this article, we present a systematic review of 20 years of language engagement research. To ensure robust coverage, we searched 21 major journals on second language acquisition (SLA) and applied linguistics and identified 112 reports satisfying our inclusion criteria. The results of our analysis of these reports highlighted the adoption of heterogeneous methods and conceptual frameworks in the language engagement literature, as well as indicating a need to refine the definitions and operationalizations of engagement in both quantitative and qualitative...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: enfoque por tareas

Resumen:

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is an empirically investigated pedagogy that has garnered attention from language programs across the globe. TBLT provides an alternative to traditional grammar translation or present-practice-produce pedagogies by emphasizing interaction during authentic tasks. Despite several previous meta-analyses investigating the effect of individual tasks or short-term task-based treatments on second language (L2) development, no studies to date have synthesized the effects of long-term implementation of TBLT in authentic language classrooms. The present study uses meta-analytic techniques to investigate the effectiveness of TBLT programs on L2 learning. Findings based on a sample of 52 studies revealed an overall positive and strong effect (d = 0.93) for TBLT implementation on a variety of learning outcomes....

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Tipo: capítulo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: sintaxis

Resumen:

We present a selective review of studies on Romance languages wherein acceptability experiments played an important role in advancing our knowledge of the grammars of particular linguistic varieties and, by extension, furthering our knowledge of human language and linguistic theory. First, we examine recent studies on word order in wh-questions across varieties of Spanish. Next, we examine the value of acceptability experiments in the study of infrequent structures (e.g. clitic left-dislocation, focus fronting). We highlight the importance of data triangulation by examining studies of information focus in Spanish, emphasizing the impact that methodological choices can have on results. We also examine control and raising structures in Brazilian Portuguese, where conflicting results have required innovative methodological approaches....

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Tipo: libro

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: cognición y procesamiento

Resumen:

Does the language we speak affect the way we think? This Element provides a synthesis of contemporary research on the interplay between language and cognition in speakers of two or more languages and examines variables deemed to impact bilingual acquisition and conceptualization of language-specific thinking patterns during L2 learning. An overview of different yet interrelated studies is offered across a variety of conceptual domains to illustrate different approaches and key variables. The comparison of monolingual and bilingual data demonstrates the highly integrative nature between L2 learning and the changing of one's entire cognitive outlook in L2 speakers. This Element makes relevant connections between language learning and bilingual cognition, aiming to shed new light on how learners acquire conceptual distinctions of the...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: corpus

Resumen:

Texto completo

: Este trabajo presenta una revisión bibliográfica en la que se examinan publicaciones referentes a los corpus de aprendices en general y a los de ELE en particular, destacando el papel fundamental de los avances informáticos en el desarrollo de este ámbito. Dado que la investigación en corpus de aprendices aborda el estudio de los errores, comenzaremos remontándonos a los orígenes de la Lingüística Contrastiva y sus tres modelos de análisis para, más adelante, poner de manifiesto que la ayuda proporcionada en la actualidad por los ordenadores ha solventado problemas detectados en los trabajos que implementaron estos modelos (en especial, el Análisis de Errores) durante el siglo XX. Nos centraremos, a continuación,...

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Tipo: libro

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: influencia de la L1

Resumen:

This book traces and summarizes the author's theoretical insights and empirical findings in the field of foreign language education. The volume explores themes such as individual differences in L1 ability and their connection to L2 aptitude and L2 achievement, L2 anxiety as an affective or cognitive variable, and the relationship between L1 and L2 reading. The book includes the author's previously published works, presented together with newly written commentaries on those topics, as well as commentaries on new empirical work. It will be of interest to students and researchers in SLA, educational practitioners and language policymakers.

CONTENIDOS

Richard L. Sparks: Introduction and Overview

Part 1: Theoretical Insights into L1-L2 Relationships: IDs in L1 Attainment and the Linguistic...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: feedback/retroalimentación

Resumen:

Corrective feedback on second language (L2) writing has remained one of the most heavily studied areas in applied linguistics, yet clear guidance for practitioners about how to provide it most effectively remains limited. Previous studies have meta-analysed written corrective feedback (WCF) research revealing conflicting findings in how WCF affects development in L2 writers' accuracy over time. This study provides a needed update in light of a recent increase in (quasi)experimental WCF studies. It features several methodological advances by introducing a Bayesian approach to conducting a meta-analysis, which provides a more valid picture of the generalizable effects. The analysis allows distinction — for the first time at a meta-analytic level — between short-, medium-, and long-term effects of WCF. Results aggregate data from an...

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