Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: aprendizaje colaborativo

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Web-based peer learning (WPL) is widely recognized as effectively complementing students’ learning activities. However, its role in students’ textbook use, which is an important aspect of students’ knowledge construction, is still unknown, particularly with respect to pre-class textbook use. To fill this knowledge gap, this qualitative case study explored WPL’s role in pre-class textbook use (i.e., textbooks used before in-class instruction of a new text) of 15 students enrolled in an English-as-a-foreign-language reading course at a university in China. A thematic analysis of multiple data resources (e.g., interviews with students and students’ web-based activities) collected over a semester was conducted. The results showed that in addition to improving their reading literacy, the students’ WPL helped them retain the content learned...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: literatura

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La lectura de un texto literario, su análisis y su discusión posterior, constituyen una fuente de aprendizaje múltiple para cualquier estudiante. Además de suponer una aproximación a la representación sociocultural de una determinada época, y a las ideas de un autor, permiten pensar el mundo de nuevo. Si estas premisas las aplicamos a un curso de literatura española, o latinoamericana, para extranjeros, nos encontramos con que la literatura también representa una disciplina de un valor didáctico excepcional en la enseñanza de E/LE: el estudiante asimila la lengua a través de la obra literaria, construye distintos significados de la misma al interpretarla, y desarrolla su competencia lingüística,...

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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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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión escrita

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Previous studies demonstrated that the continuation task has great language learning potential and that various task-related factors may affect the extent to which the potential can be exploited (e.g. Wang & Wang, 2015). This study investigates the effect of one understudied factor, the linguistic complexity of the input text, on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ alignment, writing fluency, and writing accuracy in the continuation task. Two comparable groups of Chinese undergraduate EFL learners read and continued a simplified and unsimplified version of the same incomplete story whose linguistic complexity matched and exceeded their production ability, respectively. Compared to the unsimplified version, the simplified version resulted in more automatic alignment and greater improvement in writing fluency and accuracy...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: comprensión lectora

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Reading self-efficacy in both first language (L1) or second language (L2) contexts has attracted increasing attention from researchers and practitioners in the past decades. However, prior self-efficacy studies have mainly adopted variable-centered approaches, and a global index of reading self-efficacy was created in these studies. Individual differences in reading self-efficacy and how they are associated with other learning factors remain under-explored particularly in an English as a foreign language (EFL) context. The purpose of this article was therefore to employ a person-centered approach to examine different patterns of EFL students’ English reading self-efficacy as identified by latent profile analysis (LPA) among 361 Chinese university students. We conducted analyses of variance to examine the differences in English reading...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: tecnología educativa

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Se explican tres tipos de ejemplos de blog con tres finalidades distintas: el blog como tarea final de un curso de español para inmigrantes; el blog como motivación a la lectura y la escritura en un curso de español para inmigrantes de diferentes niveles; y el blog como herramienta de comunicación e información en un curso de estudiantes universitarios de música chinos que estudian español en Tarragona.

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Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: literatura

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Presentamos una experiencia de acercamiento de estudiantes de E/LE a la cultura española mediante su poesía, para tratar aspectos de la literatura relevantes en el aprendizaje de la lengua, tales como la dicción, las rimas, el léxico y algunas figuras literarias, seleccionando algunos hitos de la tradición poética española que pusieran al estudiante en contacto con esta parte de nuestra cultura. El diseño pretendía atraer la atención, fomentar un contexto de aprendizaje distendido y despertar el gusto estético; estos objetivos van de la mano del género literario trabajado, dado que la poesía es la gran excluida en las clases de español como lengua extranjera. La comprensión oral y la lectora...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: comprensión lectora

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The present study presents an instructional procedure developed in an attempt to enhance incidental learning through graded readers in class, the Multiple Incidental Exposures (MIE) procedure, and compares it to a more common procedure involving reading and doing the exercises, which is referred to as Traditional Explicit Practice (TEP). Participants were 44 Catalan/Spanish students (aged 10–11 years) taking the fifth course of primary education in a school in Catalonia. Participants belonged to two intact classes that were randomly assigned a condition: MIE group (n = 23, n = 15 males, n = 8 females) and the TEP group (n = 21, n = 12 males, n = 9 females). The MIE group was first told the story by their teacher, then read and listened to the graded readers twice (first collectively and later on individually), to be followed by a True...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: adquisición de segundas lenguas

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This study employs eye-tracking to investigate how first (L1) and second language (L2) glosses affect lexical uptake and reading behaviors in L2 learners of English. The study also explores the relationship between lexical uptake and reading behaviors as a function of gloss type. To investigate this, 81 Korean university students were asked to read a baseline passage with no gloss or the same passage with glosses in the study’s L1 (Korean) or L2 (English). Their eye movements were recorded with an eye tracker as they read, and they were subsequently asked to respond to two vocabulary tests. Analyses of eye-tracking data and vocabulary test scores revealed that the presence or absence of L1 and L2 glosses might produce differences in lexical uptake and dissimilar attentional mechanisms. For instance, the study found that L1 and L2...

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Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: literatura

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En el momento actual, ya casi nadie parece poner en duda la utilidad de los textos literarios en la enseñanza y aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera. En el presente artículo, utilizamos un conjunto de textos literarios situados en la ciudad de Valencia (España), con lo cuales proponemos al alumnado actividades que mejoren, por un lado, sus destrezas lingüísticas y, por otro, les ayuden a apreciar las características del texto literario.

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