Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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The Production Effect (PE) is a memory phenomenon, referring to memory advantage for produced items (read aloud) over non-produced items (read silently). Since vocalizing shows consistent memory benefits, it has been suggested as a mnemonic that can be used to assist vocabulary learning. The present study investigated the PE in L2 vocabulary learning and examined whether learning is durable over time. Hebrew speaking students learned new words in Esperanto, either by vocal production or by no-production. Retention interval varied between participants – from immediate, 1-week, and 2-weeks following the learning phase. The results showed a significant PE – a memory advantage for vocally produced over non-produced words across all learning intervals. Memory performance was higher in the immediate tests than in the delayed tests. The...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: estrategias de aprendizaje

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Este artículo presenta un marco teórico para incorporar entrenamiento estratégico en la enseñanza de ELE, con el objetivo de desarrollar la competencia estratégica y metacognitiva del alumno. Asimismo, expone cómo enseñar estrategias mediante un ejemplo práctico que muestra la secuencia de fases propuestas por el método académico cognitivo para la enseñanza de lenguas (Chamot y O’Malley, 1994). Para ello, se introduce la estrategia de memoria agrupación y se explica detalladamente cómo integrarla en actividades de lengua concretas, con la intención de que los alumnos sean capaces de utilizarla cuando aprendan vocabulario de forma independiente.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación

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The dynamics of second language learning motivation (L2 motivation), which depends on multiple intra-personal and contextual influences, is increasingly examined. As part of this research trend, we explore the usefulness of a global view of motivation – covering control, value and truth effectiveness – for tracing English majors’ motivational development spanning their entire learning histories. Viewing L2 motivation as a complex system, we employ complex dynamic systems theory and retrodictive qualitative modeling. We created a “blueprint” integrating diverse motivational forces under the three types of effectiveness. Control emerged as crucial as, in interaction with the others, it pushed the motivational system into qualitatively different states, particularly through feedback on progress and the (non-)compatibility of goal foci (...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: estrategias de aprendizaje

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While research into various dimensions of language learning strategies has been thriving over the recent years, grammar learning strategies (GLS) have largely remained under-explored. The present mixed methods research aimed to explore GLS in the three stages of classroom grammar tasks, while striving to determine the sequence of GLS and their contribution to grammar proficiency. In the qualitative phase, 13 participants partook in stimulated recall and semi-structured interviews after completing consciousness-raising (CR) tasks. Then, the grounded theory (GT) methodology was applied to conceptualize a theoretical model. For the quantitative phase, a modified version of Pawlak’s Grammar Learning Strategy Inventory and a grammar proficiency test were administered to 249 participants. The theoretical model of GT indicated that learners...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: factores afectivos

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En el aula de lenguas extranjeras, los alumnos disponen de un repertorio lingüístico en proceso de desarrollo, que les impide muchas veces expresar todo su potencial comunicativo. Y es justo en este contexto que se observa el impacto más significativo de las variables personales. La decisión de comunicarse que asume el hablante siempre que tiene la oportunidad de hacerlo influye directamente en los logros en su competencia comunicativa en la lengua extranjera. En este sentido, conocer los componentes de la disposición a comunicarse, cómo generarla y mantenerla en el aula pueden ser la clave hacia una enseñanza/aprendizaje de la expresión y la interacción oral más efectiva. El objetivo de este...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión escrita

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Second/foreign language writing consists of a cycle of three phases (i.e., forethought, performance, and reflection) that interact with each other. However, studies on the interaction of these different phases are limited. Self-regulated strategies are used and enacted differently across these phases of second/foreign language writing, forming sequential relationships within the strategic system. However, the interconnections among phase-specific strategies (especially the theoretically directional relationships across these three phases) remain underexplored. Combining structural equation modeling and thematic analysis, this study explored the impact of pre-writing task perception on post-writing feedback handling, with five during-writing task implementation strategies as mediators and second/foreign language writing proficiency as...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: aprendizaje autónomo

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Self-regulated learning (SRL) is crucial to online language learning. Previous studies have shown that learners’ self-efficacy, task value, and SRL strategies improve SRL in online language learning contexts. However, how self-efficacy and task value affect different types of online SRL strategies is understudied. This study investigated the determinants of different types of online SRL strategies in online language learning courses to determine whether task value mediated self-efficacy and online SRL strategies. A total of 425 international university students who studied online Chinese language courses were recruited to complete self-report questionnaires measuring self-efficacy, task value and four types of online SRL strategies. Structural equation modelling showed that self-efficacy had significantly direct and positive effects...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: comprensión lectora

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The ability to read in a second language (L2) for academic purposes is essential for higher education students. Dutch colleges increasingly use materials in English or teach in English. This can be challenging for L2 readers, especially students entering higher education from vocational studies, who may have less experience with L2 academic reading. Teaching L2 reading programmes containing explicit instruction of reading strategies may benefit higher education students in L2 academic reading, particularly since reading strategies learned in the first language (L1) may not transfer to the L2. In this 7-week L2 reading strategy intervention, 801 first-year polytechnic students learned to use seven...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enfoque por tareas

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Studies on on-line planning have been based upon the same definition in the past few decades, and they have operationalized on-line planning in similar ways. Drawing upon theories in cognitive psychology, the present study sets out to propose a revised definition of on-line planning that aims at capturing a greater variety of on-line planning behaviors. Two methods of eliciting on-line planning were implemented: providing students with listener’s feedback between two consecutive rounds of task performance, and providing them with criteria for successful task performance. Their effects on second language (L2) narrative task performance and the use of planning strategies were investigated with 90 Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) who were first-year English majors. To assess the quality of task performance,...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: expresión escrita

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Son muchos los profesores que, aun hoy en día, piensan que la expresión escrita es una destreza que se entrena mejor individualmente en casa como parte de los deberes.

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