Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: español para fines específicos

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Over the past two decades, Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) and Community Service Learning (CSL) in the United States (US) have gained traction in post-secondary institutions. Abbott and Lear (2010) established that CSL provides excellent opportunities for students to meet the National Foreign Language Standards. After establishing a brief historical overview of programs and research in the fields of Spanish LSP and CSL, this paper provides an overview of core issues facing the field, i.e., the need to (1) focus LSP on a new specific purpose (foundational training in professionalism) (i.e., those linguistic abilities, behaviors, skills, and manners that are vital to all professions in the target culture), (2) thread this training in professionalism throughout the curriculum (from basic language, to majors, to graduate students...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: enseñanza de español en Estados Unidos

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This article chronicles the teaching and learning of Spanish in the United States (US) preschool through college (preK-16) from the 1800s to the present day and beyond. National and local policies, initiatives, and practices are reviewed as well as program and curricular models and methodologies at each educational level: pre-kindergarten through elementary school; junior high, middle, and high school; college and university. From the 1800s until the 1980s, teaching and learning Spanish was steeped in tradition, incorporating predominantly grammar translation and reading great works of literature. Some exceptions to instruction included the Berlitz method and the audiolingual methods. An enrollment crisis in the 1970s propelled change in instructional delivery. These innovations were guided by research that then informed the creation...

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Tipo: libro

Temas: español para fines específicos

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Learner-centered practical strategies, models, and resources for the development of world languages for specific purposes curriculum.

The world today is changing, and college-level language departments are rethinking and revamping their vision and curricular offerings as a result. The field of world languages for specific purposes (WLSP) presents a solution to these challenges, helping students develop language skills and intercultural competencies as they focus on content-based professional areas such as business, law, and medicine. As demand for these courses grows, teachers and administrators seek research-based information on how to develop and teach WLSP curricula. This book bridges theory and practice, inviting scholars, educators, students, and professionals of all areas of world language specialization to...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos

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This study investigated differences in students' foreign language anxiety and foreign language self-efficacy related to skill-specific foreign language tasks (i.e., speaking, listening, reading, and writing) across five levels of university foreign language coursework. A total of 206 participants in 12 university Spanish classrooms (ranging from Beginning Spanish I to Intermediate Spanish II) were surveyed for this study. The findings revealed that students who have higher levels of skill-specific foreign language anxieties provided corresponding lower ratings on skill-specific foreign language self-efficacies. Analyses also revealed that students' ratings for foreign language anxiety for each foreign language-learning skill were not significantly different across the five levels of coursework. However, students' ratings of foreign...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: español académico

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This study explores the literacy development of students who speak Spanish as a heritage language and who participate in mandatory, peer-to-peer tutoring sessions outside of the classroom. We explore students' academic development as well as their self-positioning as heritage speakers in a bilingual academic setting. Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), we analyze the written production of seven bilingual students enrolled in a Native Speaker Program at a large, public university. We focus on the development of their academic language through the support of a heritage language tutor and explore the role of the peer tutor as a facilitator in this process. Additionally, we employ Appraisal Theory to analyze interviews in which the same participants explore their bilingual identities and how they position themselves...

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Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: español académico

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El presente monográfico ofrece una visión actualizada de la investigación sobre el discurso académico (oral y escrito) en español como segunda lengua (L2), a la luz de los nuevos contextos de aprendizaje y metodologías de enseñanza en el nivel universitario. Su actualidad y relevancia en este momento se justifica por el creciente número de estudiantes no nativos de español que acuden a las universidades de habla hispana, un fenómeno paralelo al de la cada vez mayor movilidad estudiantil internacional, que ha generado un área de gran interés para la didáctica específica del español.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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An artificial intelligence-based chatbot, ChatGPT, was launched in November 2022 and is capable of generating cohesive and informative human-like responses to user input. This rapid review of the literature aims to enrich our understanding of ChatGPT's capabilities across subject domains, how it can be used in education, and potential issues raised by researchers during the first three months of its release (i.e., December 2022 to February 2023). A search of the relevant databases and Google Scholar yielded 50 articles for content analysis (i.e., open coding, axial coding, and selective coding). The findings of this review suggest that ChatGPT's performance varied across subject domains, ranging...

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Tipo: guía

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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Esta Guía de inicio rápido presenta a ChatGPT, una herramienta de Inteligencia Artificial (IA) que ha arrasado en todo el mundo, alcanzando los 100 millones de usuarios sólo dos meses después de su lanzamiento. La Guía de inicio rápido ofrece una visión general del funcionamiento de ChatGPT y explica cómo puede utilizarse en la educación superior. La guía plantea algunos de los principales retos e implicaciones éticas de la IA en la educación superior y ofrece medidas prácticas que las instituciones de educación superior pueden adoptar Esta Guía de inicio rápido se publicó en abril de 2023. La Inteligencia Artificial (IA) es un campo en rápido desarrollo.

Esta guía se basa en GPT-3.5, la última versión gratuita de ChatGPT disponible en el momento de redactar este documento. Además de los cambios dinámicos en la tecnología, las...

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Tipo: libro

Temas: tecnología educativa

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This guide is an exploration of ChatGPT for higher education, written with help from ChatGPT during the prewriting, writing and revising phases of this project. I reviewed, revised and edited this text. I verified the originality of this work through a plagiarism check on Grammarly, and I take responsibility for the content in this document. In writing this guide, I learned about writing with ChatGPT and what prompts ChatGPT to excel and what causes ChatGPT to generate less helpful text. The objectives and content of this guide are tailored to the areas of strength and for an audience of academics who are exploring and expanding their own use of ChatGPT.

This guide...

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Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: tecnología educativa

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The release of ChatGPT has sparked significant academic integrity concerns in higher education. However, some commentators have pointed out that generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT can enhance student learning. Consequently, academics should adapt their teaching and assessment practices to embrace the new reality of living, working, and studying in a world where AI is freely available. Despite this important debate, very little academic literature has been published on ChatGPT and other generative AI tools. This article uses content analysis to examine news articles (N=100) about how ChatGPT is disrupting higher education, concentrating specifically on...

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