Tipo: libro

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: enfoques y métodos

Resumen:

This is not the first attempt to present a new approach to the teaching of second and foreign languages based on a new theory of language. Earlier attempts, most notably audiolingual approaches, have not met with great success. We think that this has happened for several reasons. A major problem was that the theories were not actually theories of language acquisition, but theories of something else; for example, the structure of language. Also, the application of the theory, the methodology, was not always adequately field-tested. What looked reasonable to the university professor on paper did not always work out in the classroom.

The Natural Approach, we hope, does not have these weaknesses. It is based on an empirically grounded theory of second language acquisition, which has been supported by a large number of scientific...

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Tipo: libro

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

Resumen:

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: capítulo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

Resumen:

In the current study I explore the relationship between epistemology and methodology through a reanalysis of production data on grammatical gender in additionallanguage Spanish that were analysed in Gudmestad et al. (2019). This reanalysis consists of a shift in the epistemology from the one adopted by Gudmestad et al., where gender marking, which occurs between nouns and both determiners and adjectives, is a unified linguistic phenomenon. In contrast, the assumption in the present investigation is that the acquisition of gender marking entails learning gender assignment and gender agreement, two different learning processes that are observable in language behaviour with determiners and adjectives, respectively. In order to reflect critically on the relationship between epistemology and methodology and specifically on its influence on...

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Tipo: capítulo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: adquisición de segundas lenguas

Resumen:

The aim of this introduction is to set the scene and present the three contexts on focus in the monograph and justify this choice of topic within second language acquisition (SLA) research, the perspective taken in this volume. Starting with the latter, in the past two decades the examination of the effects of different contexts of acquisition has attracted the attention of researchers, based on the idea that "the study of SLA within and across various contexts of learning forces a broadening of our perspective of the different variables that affect and impede acquisition in general" (Collentine & Freed 2004: 157).

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Tipo: memoria de investigación

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: lingüística aplicada

Resumen:

La presente memoria de investigación constituye un acercamiento a la Lingüística Aplicada a la enseñanza de idiomas a través de sus orígenes y del nacimiento de los primeros estudios científicos, siguiendo las principales líneas de investigación hasta nuestro siglo. De este modo, el trabajo se inicia con unas consideraciones sobre la adquisición de segundas lenguas en el contexto de la Lingüística Aplicada, y a continuación aborda los inicios de la investigación de la mano del Análisis Contrastivo, el Análisis de Errores y los trabajos sobre Interlengua. La segunda mitad del trabajo trata de las orientaciones actuales de la investigación, centrada en el Análisis de la Actuación, el Análisis del Discurso, el estudio de las variables del aprendiz y el enfoque social de los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje de idiomas.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de la gramática

Resumen:

El  presente  artículoes  el  resultado  de  una  investigación  pilotada  entre  estudiantes universitarios que pretende observar qué método gramatical, explícito o implícito, es más eficaz en el aprendizaje y adquisición de una L2. El estudio de campo se ha realizado en dos grupos de estudiantes  homogéneos  y  paralelos  en  el  marco  de  la  asignatura Español  económico  y empresarial. Para  ello  se  han  diseñado  materiales  idénticos  en  el  contenido  y  con  un  enfoque por tareas, pero con un método de gramática distinto en cada uno de los grupos, de forma que pudiera llevarse a cabo una visión contrastiva de los resultados.

En  el ...

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Tipo: libro

Temas: español como lengua de herencia

Resumen:

Aproximaciones al estudio del español como lengua de herencia reúne diversas perspectivas sobre el estudio del español como lengua de herencia en el contexto de los Estados Unidos. El volumen presenta una amplia gama de enfoques lingüísticos, modelos pedagógicos e innovaciones programáticas. Dirigido a investigadores noveles y experimentados, al igual que a estudiantes y profesionales de la enseñanza, es un volumen ideal para aquellas personas que desean actualizar sus conocimientos del campo y obtener una perspectiva panorámica sobre la investigación y la enseñanza del español como lengua de herencia.

Contenidos

Introducción

PARTE I
Aproximaciones lingüísticas al español como lengua de herencia

1. La fonética y fonología del español como...

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Tipo: capítulo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: adquisición de segundas lenguas

Resumen:

This chapter introduces the rationale behind a social network analytic (SNA) approach in the context of second language acquisition (SLA). The conceptual overview presents ways of operationalising social graphs and common metrics used in the calculations, supported by illustrative examples. We then argue for merging quantitative SNA with qualitative data. Subsequently, we showcase findings from the PEERLANG project (Paradowski et al., 2021) investigating the influence of peer out-of-class interactions on SLA in two different contexts: among international participants in intensive summer language courses (multilingual "immersion" scenario), and stationary foreign language majors ("no immersion"). We reveal patterns emerging from both contexts, demonstrating the role that mobility plays in network dynamics, and how both factors together...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: adquisición de segundas lenguas

Resumen:

Extended oral production has seldom been used to explore adjectival and verbal agreement in L2 Spanish. This study examines oral narrations to compare the agreement behavior, speech rates, and patterns of errors of highly proficient Spanish heritage and L2 learners (early and late bilinguals, respectively), whose L1 is English, with those of native controls. Although both bilingual groups displayed high agreement accuracy scores, only the early bilinguals performed at or close to ceiling. In addition, the L2 learners spoke significantly more slowly than the heritage and native speakers, who displayed similar speech rates. Explanations accounting for the differences in speech rates and agreement accuracy include age of acquisition of Spanish, syntactic distance between a noun and its adjective, and task effects. All of these factors...

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Tipo: libro

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: influencia de la L1

Resumen:

When learners of a new language draw on their native language (or on any other that they may know), this earlier acquired linguistic knowledge may influence their success. Such cross-linguistic influence, also known as language transfer, has long raised questions about what linguists can predict about success in the new language and about what processes are involved in using prior knowledge. This book lucidly brings together many insights on transfer: e.g. on the relation between translation and transfer, the relation between comprehension and production, and the problem of how complete any predictions of difficulty may ever be. The discussions also explore implications for future research and for classroom practice. The book will thus serve as a reliable guide for teachers, researchers, translators, interpreters, and students curious...

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