Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: adquisición de segundas lenguas

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The present study tested the hypothesis that phonological vocabulary knowledge consists of declarative and automatized dimensions, which develop at different rates. Chinese students of English as a foreign language completed three tasks (recognition, recall, and lexicosemantic judgements) to assess learning gains of 18 multiword expressions before and after short intentional audiovisual training. The results showed that (1) task effects were minor at the outset due to participants’ limited prior knowledge of target items, (2) training facilitated greater gains in the declarative than in the automatized dimension, and (3) clearer task effects (declarative > automatized knowledge) emerged...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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We evaluate the impact of gestures during the teaching of vocabulary in a foreign language (FL). Spanish speakers learned words in a FL in four gesture conditions according to the relationship between the meaning of the words and the gestures (congruent gestures, incongruent gestures, gestures without meaning, and no gestures). The participants learned the words by performing gestures (‘do’ teaching group) or by observing the gestures performed by others (‘see’ teaching group). Compared to the meaningless gesture condition, the processing of congruent gestures facilitated the recall of second language (L2) words in the ‘see’ and ‘do’ teaching groups. However, the interference effect associated with the processing of incongruent gestures was greater in the ‘see’ teaching group than in the ‘do’ teaching group. Thus, the performance of...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enfoque por tareas

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While the research on pretask planning has concentrated on its effects on learners’ task performance in terms of fluency, accuracy, and complexity, its possible influence on the overall discourse level, such as discourse management and coherence, has been largely ignored. The present study addresses the inadequacy by uncovering the potential effects of pretask planning on Chinese EFL (English as a foreign language) learners’ selection of referential expressions in oral narratives. Fifty-six intermediate-level learners were tasked with retelling the story of Modern Times under one of two conditions, that is, either with 10-minutes strategic planning or without any planning time. An additional 25 native speakers (NSs) also narrated the same story under the same task conditions. Their narratives were audio recorded, transcribed, and...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de la gramática

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Recent research highlights the value of metalinguistic explanations in facilitating second language (L2) grammar acquisition. Nevertheless, a notable research gap persists regarding how these explanations influence incidental grammar acquisition and their impact on overall reading processes and comprehension. Furthermore, whether the potentially positive effects of metalinguistic explanations transfer to the acquisition of subsequent constructions without explicit guidance is an unexplored domain. This study addresses these research gaps by recruiting 42 Korean undergraduate students and assigning them to the metalinguistic or baseline groups. The metalinguistic group read an English text supplemented with bottom-margin metalinguistic explanations, which elucidated the first half of the target grammar (without explanations for the...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: colocaciones

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Collocational knowledge is central to communicative competence, but many second language (L2) learners struggle to acquire this aspect. To address this limitation, the present study investigated if textual enhancement and frequency manipulation would affect incidental learning of collocations from reading. Fifty-four first language (L1) Cantonese speakers read two English stories in which 12 adjective–pseudonoun collocations appeared either three or six times. The target collocations were coloured in red under the enhanced condition. Participants’ attentional processes were examined using their eye-movements during reading and stimulated recall comments prompted by their own eye-movements. After reading, unannounced immediate and delayed posttests were administered. The results showed that increased frequency led to greater visual...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: pronunciación

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En este artículo se presenta una propuesta didáctica para la enseñanza y la mejora de la pronunciación de estudiantes de español. La propuesta se enmarca en el paradigma comunicativo y en los principios de la didáctica en enseñanza de las lenguas. La propuesta desarrolla un método de enseñanza de la pronunciación basado en el modelo de doble ruta psicolingüístico y para la intervención se apoya en el paradigma propioceptivo, entendido desde una perspectiva holística donde la percepción y la producción se engloban dentro del acto comunicativo. La propuesta comienza con una evaluación de las dificultades en pronunciación que guíe la elaboración del plan de enseñanza personalizado según las...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: comprensión lectora

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En este trabajo se pretende delinear la importancia de conocer explícitamente los condicionantes del proceso de lectura desde una perspectiva contextual (digital y analógica) para una optimización del proceso de aprendizaje en hablantes de lenguas afines. Para ello, se diseñó una prueba cuantitativa mediante la cual poder medir de manera más objetiva posible la capacidad de construcción de un cerebro lingüístico cuya lengua materna posee afinidades tan marcadas como es el portugués en relación con el español. Realizar un punto de comparación entre ambos grupos nos ayudó a conocer el nivel en el que los alumnos usan de una manera más o menos completa el sesgo informativo como elemento de ahorro...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: comunicación no verbal

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Gestures are widely recognized as an integral aspect of multimodal communication and language learning. However, the conditions under which they effectively support learning remain unclear. This study investigated when gesture matters in English as a foreign language (EFL) learning through three controlled experiments. Experiment 1 (3 × 2 design) examined the effects of gesture type (iconic, deictic, metaphoric) and production mode (human tutor vs. virtual agent). Experiment 2 compared gesture engagement (watch vs. imitate), while Experiment 3 tested gesture timing (synchronous, gesture-first, misaligned). University-level EFL learners participated in 30-minute instructional sessions, with outcomes measured in language recall, pronunciation accuracy, and cognitive load using multivariate analysis of covariance. Results showed that...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: comunicación no verbal

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Instructional videos for teaching second language (L2) vocabulary often feature an instructor onscreen. The instructor in the video may involuntarily produce beat gestures with their hands, as occurs in real teaching settings. Beat gestures highlight key information in speech by conveying the rhythm of the language, but do not themselves convey semantic meaning. However, little is known about how the instructor’s beat gestures affect L2 vocabulary learning. We conducted two experiments on the effects of the instructor’s purposeful (scripted) beat gestures in instructional videos that included an instructor and slides, with English L2 vocabulary as the topic. In Experiment 1, using a within-participant design, we tested the hypothesis that an instructor’s gestures (beat gesture vs. no gesture) would improve learning performance. The...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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This study investigated how repeated occurrences of novel words and the corresponding number of first-language in-text glosses influenced novel words processing and learning outcomes during second-language reading. Using eye-tracking, 48 college students in China read a 4,693-word graded reader. With 2 balanced versions, 24 words (12 glossed and 12 non-glossed) occurring 1 to 7 times served as target words. Results showed that, first, processing times of target words were shorter in the gloss condition, and combined processing times of target words plus glosses were shorter than the times of non-glossed target words; second, processing times of target words in two conditions showed different trajectories across repeated occurrences, whereas processing times of first-language glosses remained relatively constant; and third, first-...

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