Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo chatGPT

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This article examines the role of advanced generative AI chatbots, particularly ChatGPT, in supporting Spanish language teaching. It explores how ChatGPT can aid educators in developing language learning tasks, utilizing a five-step model and backward design methodology. Through an exploratory and descriptive approach, the study sheds light on ChatGPT's potential in task generation. The article shows that ChatGPT can produce a broad array of integrated tasks for the interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational modes, targeting specific learning objectives and standards. However, AI-generated content often requires additional revision and refinement to fully align with established task criteria. While ChatGPT can save educators time and resources in task creation, the study underscores the importance of cautious AI integration. It...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo pragmática

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Accomplishing oral interactive workplace tasks requires various language abilities, including pragmatics. While technology-mediated tasks are thought to offer many possibilities for teaching and assessing second language (L2) pragmatics, their effectiveness – especially those facilitated by an AI agent (artificial intelligence agent) – remains to be explored. This study investigated how 47 tertiary-level learners of English as a second language (ESL) performed on an oral interactive task that required them to make requests to their boss in two distinct modalities. Each participant completed the same task with a fully automated AI agent and with a human interlocutor in a face-to-face format. Findings showed that both modalities elicited language use relevant to the pragmatics target. However, fully automated interactions were found to...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo enfoque por tareas

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Synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC) offers second/foreign language (L2/FL) learners' interactional environments that are unique to face-to-face (F2F) communication. Such modes have the potential to facilitate better learning outcomes under certain conditions. The aim of this study was to compare the capacity of two online modes – text chat and voice chat – to promote uptake of targeted vocabulary in an English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom setting. Three distinct tasks (opinion exchange, dictogloss, problem-solving task) were used to measure the effectiveness of both modes to facilitate immediate and delayed uptake compared to F2F communication. The study investigated: (1) how task design and communication mode affected EFL uptake; (2) the effect time allocation had; and (3) the degree to which task perceptions...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo enfoque por tareas

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Bryfonski and McKay published a meta-analytic review of reports on the effectiveness of task-based programs relative to other types of programs. The aggregated effect in support of task-based programs was substantial. However, Boers et al. re-examined the 27 comparative studies from which this effect size was calculated and argued that, with one exception, they did not serve the intended purpose of the meta-analysis well. However, in a recent publication, Xuan et al. argue that a good number of the primary studies used by Bryfonski and McKay are in fact suitable for a meta-analysis if the programs they assess are re-defined as task-supported rather than task-based programs. Xuan et al. then conducted a meta-analysis of 16 of the 27 comparative studies that were originally included in Bryfonski and McKay's analysis, confirming the...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo enfoque por tareas

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The present study investigates language learners’ perceptions of what types of language learning activities they carry out in the Spanish second language (L2) classroom and what activities are the most common ones. A further aim is to investigate how the activities align with a model based on task-based language teaching. The group studied are Swedish learners of Spanish as L2 in a Swedish setting, where out of class exposure to first language (L1) Spanish is generally limited. The activities carried out in class are therefore expected to have a high impact on learners’ L2 acquisition in Spanish. The participants were tested after...

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Tipo: monográfico

Temas: monográfico fonética

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"El presente volumen surge ante la inspiración de convocar a docentes e investigadores del área de la lingüística aplicada a la enseñanza de español como lengua segunda y extranjera (ELSE) en el seno de nuestra revista Letras. La idea consiste inaugurar un espacio dedicado a las lingüísticas en general y, dentro de ellas, a esta actividad tan específica que consiste en aplicar esos principios abstractos a situaciones concretas y problemas empíricos. 
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A fin de organizar este conjunto de valiosos materiales, creí conveniente agrupar los artículos según las áreas que abarcan, algunas más teóricas que estas, otras más hundidas en la materia de la enseñanza cotidiana que aquellas. Los tres ejes en los cuales catalogué estos escritos son: Fonética, gramática y evaluación...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo gramática implícita

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El  presente  artículoes  el  resultado  de  una  investigación  pilotada  entre  estudiantes universitarios que pretende observar qué método gramatical, explícito o implícito, es más eficaz en el aprendizaje y adquisición de una L2. El estudio de campo se ha realizado en dos grupos de estudiantes  homogéneos  y  paralelos  en  el  marco  de  la  asignatura Español  económico  y empresarial. Para  ello  se  han  diseñado  materiales  idénticos  en  el  contenido  y  con  un  enfoque por tareas, pero con un método de gramática distinto en cada uno de los grupos, de forma que pudiera llevarse a cabo una visión contrastiva de los resultados.

En  el ...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo enfoque por tareas

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Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is an empirically investigated pedagogy that has garnered attention from language programs across the globe. TBLT provides an alternative to traditional grammar translation or present-practice-produce pedagogies by emphasizing interaction during authentic tasks. Despite several previous meta-analyses investigating the effect of individual tasks or short-term task-based treatments on second language (L2) development, no studies to date have synthesized the effects of long-term implementation of TBLT in authentic language classrooms. The present study uses meta-analytic techniques to investigate the effectiveness of TBLT programs on L2 learning. Findings based on a sample of 52 studies revealed an overall positive and strong effect (d = 0.93) for TBLT implementation on a variety of learning outcomes....

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Tipo: antología

Temas: antología metodología

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En esta primera parte de la antología El enfoque por tareas se recogen artículos y capítulos de diversos libros que permitirán a los profesores familiarizarse con este enfoque y profundizar en la reflexión sobre los principios en los que se basa, y sobre su aplicación en el aula.

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Introducción
Selección de artículos

• Paradigmas actuales en el diseño de programas de lenguas, por Michael P. Breen
• Hacia la enseñanza de...

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Tipo: antología

Temas: antología metodología

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En esta segunda parte de la antología El enfoque por tareas, se recogerá una selección de textos provenientes de diversos libros y otras publicaciones que permitirá a los profesores continuar familiarizándose con dicho enfoque y profundizar en la reflexión sobre su aplicación en el aula.

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Introducción
Selección de artículos

• «La metodología de la enseñanza a través de tareas» de Rod Ellis, por Begoña Pérez López
• ...

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