Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: interacción

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Con este trabajo se pretende reflexionar sobre la interacción oral en clase de lengua extranjera, sus protagonistas, cómo llevarla al aula y con qué objetivos. Asimismo, se considerarán algunas directrices para analizar y diseñar actividades y tareas de interacción oral que además respondan a las necesidades e intereses de nuestros estudiantes. Posteriormente, siguiendo las orientaciones anteriores, se desarrollará pormenorizadamente la propuesta práctica titulada «¡Camarero, por favor!», dirigida a alumnos de nivel B1, cuyo objetivo principal es participar en una situación social —en este caso en un restaurante— (alumno como agente social) y actuar según las normas y convenciones sociales de la...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: estrategias de aprendizaje

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While research into various dimensions of language learning strategies has been thriving over the recent years, grammar learning strategies (GLS) have largely remained under-explored. The present mixed methods research aimed to explore GLS in the three stages of classroom grammar tasks, while striving to determine the sequence of GLS and their contribution to grammar proficiency. In the qualitative phase, 13 participants partook in stimulated recall and semi-structured interviews after completing consciousness-raising (CR) tasks. Then, the grounded theory (GT) methodology was applied to conceptualize a theoretical model. For the quantitative phase, a modified version of Pawlak’s Grammar Learning Strategy Inventory and a grammar proficiency test were administered to 249 participants. The theoretical model of GT indicated that learners...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: competencia intercultural

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En la propuesta que aquí describimos nos centramos en el tiempo de ocio como elemento esencial de socialización y desarrollo personal, y pretendemos que el alumnado participe en las actividades de ocio de la ciudad, a través de las que, además de favorecer la igualdad de oportunidades, la autonomía y las potencialidades individuales, se aprende la lengua y se trabaja la interculturalidad conociendo formas de uso del tiempo libre en la sociedad en la que estamos, informándonos de aspectos lúdicos de diferentes culturas, y también de algunos aspectos curriculares.

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: estrategias de aprendizaje

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From a social cognitive perspective, self-regulated learning is essentially and increasingly recognized as a complex and dynamic experience. The use of self-regulated learning strategies is also inherently subjective, shaped by individuals’ experiences, beliefs, learning styles, and environmental influences. Although existing research has explored self-regulated learning via a complex dynamic system theory lens, relevant studies that depart from a learner’s point of view and elucidate complexity and subjectivity in their understanding of self-regulated learning strategy use remain limited. Researching the complexity of self-regulated learning in second language acquisition aids in fostering a...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación

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This article reports on a study that explored Japanese university students’ evolving motivational regulation by mapping its changes over one year of their studies in a collaborative project-based learning environment. An autonomy-supportive collaborative intervention was delivered to the 19 participants with varying or no experience of communicative language teaching and study abroad. Our cluster-based analysis of multiple questionnaire responses revealed increased motivation among the participants. Three learners were selected to represent each clustering group based on the unique characteristics of their motivational trajectories over the year, which reflect the mediating impacts of their...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: lexicografía

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En este estudio, parto de la base de que, por un lado, no todos los estudiantes de E/LE de un mismo nivel tienen las mismas necesidades, al intervenir diferentes variables que permiten diferenciar a un estudiante de otro; por otro lado, es necesario emplear el diccionario como herramienta de aprendizaje activo y autónomo del léxico de E/LE. Para ello, y a partir de mis experiencias prácticas en el aula sobre el uso del diccionario monolingüe de aprendizaje de E/LE (DIMAELE) con estudiantes italianos de E/LE, presentaré, en primer lugar, una breve justificación sobre su uso en el aula. En segundo lugar, expondré la idea argumentada de que los DIMAELE existentes deben mejorar la representación de las...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: evaluación

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Writing is a productive language skill that is difficult to improve and derive confidence from. Despite the abundant studies on product, process, or genre approaches to teaching writing and teachers’ feedback, there is a paucity of research into English as a foreign language (EFL) students’ responsibility for writing improvement and diagnostic writing assessment feedback. The present study employed an action research approach to explore the role of diagnostic writing assessment in promoting Chinese upper-intermediate EFL students’ learning autonomy. Questionnaires, reflective journals, and portfolios were utilized to elicit data, which were analyzed within Benson’s three-dimension learning autonomy framework. It was revealed that the diagnostic writing assessment impacted all dimensions of learning autonomy, helping EFL students form...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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The promotion of language learner autonomy has been recognized as being beneficial in various domains, from linguistic achievement to personal growth. Key to the development of learner autonomy is shifting control from the teacher to the learner. While much has been written about the construct of learner control, there has been little close examination of the practices with which language teachers release their command. This article reports on a study conducted in a Chinese private school intent on promoting learner autonomy, and explores ways in which teachers’ practices facilitated or hindered control shift and their perceptions of these actions. From a study of nine teachers within one English department, two case studies are explored in depth through analysis of classroom practices, interviews and post-lesson discussions. While...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: adquisición de segundas lenguas

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Lomb Kato and Steven Kaufmann have each acquired at least 15 languages as adults, many without living in the country where the language is spoken. Their observations about language acquisition are in close agreement with the claims of current second language acquisition theory.

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: adquisición de segundas lenguas

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Dr Kato Lomb has acquired 17 languages and now, at age 86, is acquiring Hebrew. Nearly all of her language acquisition has been in the foreign language context, in Hungary. Her conclusions about language acquisition agree very well with current language acquisition theory: comprehensible input (mostly in the form of reading in her case) is central. Even though she is very interested in grammar, she feels grammar plays a peripheral role in language development.

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