educación primaria y secundaria

En la actualidad, las aulas de secundaria se han convertido en espacios multiculturales que han llevado tanto a alumnos como a profesores a enfrentarse a una nueva realidad dentro de las clases. Los alumnos de origen extranjero y con lengua no nativa se ven obligados a adaptarse e integrarse a un ritmo vertiginoso que, en ciertas circunstancias, es inasumible; especialmente en aquellos alumnos que han entrado dentro del circuito escolar a partir del ciclo de secundaria y en mitad de curso. El objetivo, por tanto, de este artículo es analizar los resultados de aprendizaje de los alumnos inmigrantes de 3.º de ESO dentro de una secuencia didáctica dedicada al género anuncio para a) detectar la...

Relations between teacher–student relationship quality, emotional engagement, and writing performance

Jing Huang (2026)

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos

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Based on the self-determination theory, the current study took a multilevel structural equation modeling approach to explore the relations between teacher–student relationship quality (TSRQ), students’ emotional engagement in English as a foreign language (EFL) lessons and writing performance. Furthermore, gender and socioeconomic status (SES) differences were examined in relation to the three constructs. The sample comprised of 952 students from 67 French secondary schools. The results indicated that TSRQ was positively related to students’ emotional engagement at both the student and school levels, although the link between TSRQ and students’ writing performance was non-significant at both levels. The positive association between emotional engagement in EFL lessons and writing performance was significant at the student level but non...

When we learn together: Teachers and students as co-practitioners of learning and living through exploratory practice

Beatriz de Souza Andrade Maciel, Diego Fernandes Coelho Nunes, Thelma Christina Ribeiro Côrtes (2025)

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: reflexión docente

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In this article, we address collegiality among students and teachers and its potential for promoting meaningful experiences in teaching-learning processes. We analyse episodes drawn from the pedagogical practices of two of the authors of this text, who have taught English (Episode 1) and Portuguese (Episode 2). These episodes took place in two Brazilian public sector schools located in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Throughout our discussion, as Brazilian teacher-researchers, we align ourselves with studies on teaching-learning and language teacher education developed by the Exploratory Practice Group of Rio de Janeiro, with studies on autoethnography, as well as with the theoretical-analytical tools of narrative studies. As a result, we found that teaching proposals that encourage collaboration between students and teachers can promote...

Learner proficiency and EFL learning through task rehearsal and performance

Bao Trang Thi Nguyen, Jonathan Newton (2020)

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enfoque por tareas

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This study examined the impact of learner proficiency on the occurrence and resolution of language-related episodes (LREs) in rehearsal of interactive speaking tasks and on the subsequent use of language items from LREs during performance of the same tasks in front of the class. Forty-eight learners from six intact English as a foreign language (EFL) classes at a Vietnamese high school were divided into three proficiency groups, each consisting of eight dyads. Group 1 was higher proficiency (HH) dyads; Group 2 consisted of mixed proficiency dyads (HL) and Group 3 was lower proficiency (LL) dyads. All the pairs rehearsed and then consecutively performed a problem-solving task and a debate task in two separate classroom lessons. The total data included 48 rehearsals and 48 corresponding performances collected during normal classroom...

The impact of content and language integrated learning on primary school students’ English learning ability and interest

Yuan Gao, Yishan Diao, Yanting Gan (2025)

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: AICLE/CLIL

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This study examines the effectiveness of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) in primary school English teaching, focusing its impact on the English learning ability and interest of lower-grade students. Two hundred and forty first-grade students were selected from three primary schools in Shenzhen (115 in the experimental group and 125 in the control group) for a one-week intervention. Results showed that students in the experimental group significantly outperformed those in the control group in terms of English learning ability, maintaining a stable advantage across three tests. Additionally, the experimental group’s learning interest increased significantly from pre-test to post-...

Early-Start Effects in EFL Settings: A Critical Review of Long-Term Evidence Beyond the Primary School Years

Kholoud A. Al-Thubaiti (2026)

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: enseñanza a niños

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This paper critically reviews long-term evidence on early English instruction in foreign language settings beyond the primary school years. It examines how early-start effects change across the transition to lower-secondary education, later school years, and college-level contexts, and which conditions are associated with their persistence, weakening, or re-emergence. Using a timeline approach, the review synthesizes school-based and post-school evidence across these stages. The findings indicate that early-start advantages are unstable, context-dependent, and often domain-specific rather than automatic or cumulative. Although cumulative exposure matters, the evidence does not support a consistent exposure threshold at which durable advantages emerge. Cross-study comparisons are also constrained by differences in assessment constructs...

Cervantes y el amor: evolución de las colocaciones desde la perspectiva de género

Lorena García Saiz (2017)

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: colocaciones

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Este artículo presenta una unidad didáctica de Lengua Castellana y Literatura, que se trabaja en el Aula de Acogida de un centro de secundaria con un grupo de alumnado extranjero con un nivel B1. Concretamente, se trabajan las colocaciones amorosas aparecidas en diversas poesías de Miguel de Cervantes, mediante un conjunto de actividades guiadas y desde un enfoque comunicativo. Posteriormente, se comparan con similares construcciones en productos culturales actuales —en este caso, con cuestionarios de revistas juveniles que giran en torno al amor—, con lo que se comprueba que muchas de las actuales concepciones sobre las relaciones amorosas tienen un bagaje histórico y temporal, construido bajo...

Interthinking in asynchronous online talk: A study of Hong Kong English as a second language learners

Zenia Chan, Vivaldi Chung (2024)

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: interacción

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Engaging in productive forms of classroom talk has been shown to positively impact students’ thinking and language exposure. To maximize the effects of classroom talk on students who learn English as a second language (ESL) and to create more learning opportunities by leveraging the affordances of dialogic teaching in enabling interthinking, this study set out to explore the influence of asynchronous online talk on students’ thinking through a micro-blogging tool, Padlet. Twenty-five students from a local secondary school were recruited. They were asked to post their views on current news articles and conduct dialogues with one another through the commenting function. After the discussion, the...

Towards exploratory talk in secondary-school CLIL: An empirical study of the cognitive discourse function ‘explore’

Pilar Gerns, Louisa Mortimore (2025)

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: AICLE/CLIL

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Exploratory talk is increasingly recognized in formal education for its role in enhancing students’ critical thinking and literacy skills, which are crucial for quality education both within and beyond school contexts. However, research shows that students often lack opportunities for inquiry-based learning and rarely receive explicit guidance on using language for reasoning, particularly in second language (L2) learning environments. Understanding how students engage in this complex function and effectively promoting it in L2 subject contexts remains a challenge. This study introduces an operational framework for the function of ‘explore’, based on L2 learning and socio-cultural theories and Dalton-Puffer’s construct of cognitive discourse functions (CDFs). It provides both quantitative and qualitative insights into how secondary-...

Taking literature off page! The effectiveness of a blended drama approach for enhancing L2 oral accuracy, pronunciation and complexity

Simona Floare Bora (2024)

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: dramatización

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This article intends to add to the rising discussion related to the employment of authentic plays and drama within a high school compulsory curriculum for enhancing learners’ foreign language (L2) oral skills. In particular, it examines the pedagogical use of authentic contemporary plays for developing learners’ L2 oral production in terms of (1) complexity – syntactic and mean length of AS-units (MLAS) and (2) accuracy – global and pronunciation accuracy. For this purpose, a class of 10 final year high school students with a lower-intermediate to upper-intermediate level of language in an Italian context was exposed longitudinally to a blended-drama approach – the use of literary play scripts,...