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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: interacción

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Classroom relationships represent a complex and dynamic system, in which students’ relationships with teachers and peers are intertwined with each other. A person-centered approach was used to investigate how multiple characteristics of a good-quality relationship (i.e., validation, caring, and instrumental guidance) with teachers and peers combined to form English-as-a-foreign-language primary school students’ classroom relationships profiles. Four distinct profiles of classroom relationships were identified: Supportive, Teacher-oriented, Moderate, and Isolated. Whether students’ gender and English proficiency level significntly predicted their likelihood of belonging to each profile was tested...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: estrategias de aprendizaje

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This article reports findings from a larger research project which aimed to promote learner autonomy among Thai secondary school learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) through strategy-based instruction (SBI). The study involved 30 learners from an intervention class and 32 learners from a comparison class. Nine strategies were introduced to the intervention class learners over a semester with the purpose of helping them develop essential skills for strategic and autonomous language learning. This article focuses on examining how explicit teaching of strategies in class affected learners’ reading scores and approaches to reading. It also observes the effects of SBI on learners’ perceptions of their ability to read English. Findings from the pre-, post- and delayed reading tests and think-aloud reading sessions showed...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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While teachers bear the responsibility for facilitating discourse in second language (L2) classrooms, this study examines a specific pathway linking pedagogy to student participation. We investigated the relationship between a representative dialogic teaching strategy, academically productive talk (APT), and students’ discursive engagement in class. Using a sample of 490 students from seven primary and secondary schools, we analyzed associations among students’ perceptions of their teachers’ APT, students’ willingness to communicate (WTC), L2 learning motivation, L2 communication confidence, and their discursive engagement in L2 English classrooms. Structural equation modeling revealed that student-perceived teacher APT was positively related to both students’ WTC and their discursive engagement with peers. WTC partially mediated the...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: español de los negocios

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La presente propuesta nace a partir de la implantación de la Ley Educativa italiana Alternanza Scuola-Lavoro, que obliga a los estudiantes de entre 15 y 19 años a realizar horas lectivas sobre el mundo de los negocios en una lengua extranjera. Para dar respuesta a esta demanda, se diseña un curso de Español con Fines Específicos (EFE) dirigido a adolescentes. Esta experiencia práctica pretende comprobar si los contenidos y los materiales (1) resultan útiles para los jóvenes en su aprendizaje, (2) son válidos para la consecución de sus objetivos y (3) logran aumentar su motivación. Para ello, tras el diseño del programa y su puesta en práctica, se elaboran unos cuestionarios de (auto)evaluación,...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enfoque por tareas

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The goal of the current study is twofold: (1) to demonstrate how to design authentic blog-posting tasks for Korean learners of English as a foreign language (EFL); and (2) to compare traditional (textbook-based) and task-based instruction in Korean high school students’ learning of advice-giving strategies in English. Fifty high school students in Korea were assigned to either a traditional or a task-based instruction condition. The traditional group was taught advice-giving strategies using their required textbook. For the task-based instruction group, advice-giving tasks were designed simulating online Q&A communities. Participants were asked to read other high school students’ blogs about their personal concerns and respond to the concerns by posting their advice in a forum. Both groups completed a background survey, a pretest...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: enseñanza a niños

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Despite the wide recognition of the importance of parental involvement in children’s English learning, research in this area has only gained momentum since the last two decades. This article systematically reviews studies on parental involvement in children’s English learning from 2000 to 2025. Through a rigorous paper selection process, 67 empirical studies were included for final synthesis. The analysis identified three major themes: (1) parental beliefs and attitudes, (2) parenting practices, and (3) challenges and strategies of parental involvement. The findings reveal the dynamic and complex relationships among these aspects of parental involvement, highlighting their differential impacts on children’s English learning, which is often influenced by various individual and contextual factors. Based on these findings, the review...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enfoque por tareas

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This study, a follow-up to the research reported by Erlam, investigated K-12 content teachers’ ability to design tasks for content instruction in U.S. schools. Thirty-nine K-12 teachers who were enrolled in an English as a second language (ESL) teaching methods course participated in the study and each designed two language learning tasks. Two researchers rated the tasks following Ellis and Shintani’s four task criteria, as in Erlam. The study addressed the questions: (1) How successful are content teachers in designing tasks that satisfy Ellis and Shintani’s criteria? (2) Which of the criteria do teachers find easiest and most difficult to satisfy? and (3) Do the teachers improve in meeting the...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: estrategias de aprendizaje

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The language learner strategies research field has often tried to identify the good language learner (GLL) by distinguishing more proficient from less proficient learners. However the notion of ‘good’ may be problematic without taking into account an individual’s linguistic knowledge (LK). This article foregrounds LK in relation to strategy use in the context of ‘listening to the teacher’: a language use task relatively under-researched. Secondary school students in Hong Kong (n = 646) completed a questionnaire and tests of LK including vocabulary and grammar. Lower LK learners reported using more translation strategies, whereas those with higher LK reported using a range of additional strategies. A further cluster analysis, however, indicated that a sub-group of lower LK learners were comparably strategic with the higher LK group...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: aprendizaje colaborativo

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El presente trabajo se centra en una serie de actividades realizadas en las clases de E/LE de la Universidad de Chipre (niveles A1, A2 y B1 del MCER) y de los Institutos de Enseñanza Secundaria de Chipre (nivel A1/A2). Son actividades que promueven el trabajo colaborativo y la investigación por parte del alumno. Diseñadas para poder realizarse en clase de manera sencilla, a fin de no consumir mucho tiempo en el aula y que puedan ser llevadas cómodamente por el profesor, promueven la investigación y selección de la información en la propia L2, así como el trabajo autónomo de nuestros estudiantes, para construir un aprendizaje y conocimiento colectivo. Se trabajarán diferentes destrezas de forma...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación

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Research has consistently demonstrated that parental involvement plays a key role in children’s early second language (L2) development. However, little is known about how different aspects of parental involvement in children’s L2 learning are configured and how these differentiated combinations of parental involvement are associated with children’s L2 motivation and engagement. Moving beyond prior studies, which typically focused on the effects of single aspects of parental involvement, this study utilized a person-centered approach to examine the configuration patterns of various indicators of parental involvement in children’s L2 learning (i.e. parental autonomy support, psychological control, and behavioral control). Data were collected from a sample of 702 seventh graders ( Mage = 13.09, SD = 1.64; 50.14% girls) in two major...

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