Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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While previous research has investigated the effectiveness of various second language (L2) writing instructional approaches upon students’ writing performance, whether and how the instructional approaches relate to students’ writing motivation and engagement remains largely unexplored. This study used the adapted Motivation and Engagement Scale for University/College students and investigated how the three L2 writing instructional approaches (i.e. product-, process-, and genre-oriented) were associated with L2 students’ writing motivation and engagement. A sample of 1,190 students from 35 universities in China participated in the study. Results show that the product-oriented approach induced both adaptive and maladaptive motivation and engagement whereas the process-oriented approach led to student engagement in writing with limited...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: telecolaboración e intercambios virtuales

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This study examined learners’ perceptions of telecollaboration, specifically an email exchange between learners in the US and Germany, and of peer and teacher corrective feedback (CF) during the exchange. Participants were 38 learners from a second-semester German course at a US university. Their virtual exchange partners were learners of English at a German high school. Learners were assigned to a telecollaboration + peer feedback (PeerF) condition ( N = 15), a telecollaboration + teacher feedback (TeacherF) condition ( N = 10), or a telecollaboration-only (Control) condition ( N = 13). Each week, they sent one email in German and one email in English to their partners. While the PeerF Group received CF on their emails from their partners, the TeacherF Group received feedback from their instructor, and the Control Group did not...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: géneros textuales

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La habilidad de comprender y producir textos es una de las competencias básicas en la sociedad de la información y de la comunicación (OECD, 2000). Sin embargo, el concepto texto ha evolucionado adquiriendo una versatilidad que rebasa la concepción tradicional de texto escrito. Para superar este desfase al que la competencia lectora o las destrezas en la comprensión y/o expresión oral no llegan, se propone desde Alemania el término competencia textual y mediática. La finalidad de esta comunicación es reflexionar sobre la importancia de esta nueva competencia y dotar al profesorado de herramientas en el tratamiento de la competencia textual en el aula de ELE. Para ello, presentaremos un modelo...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: aprendizaje colaborativo

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Pair dynamics has received much attention in collaborative writing (CW) research. Prior research on the link between pair dynamics and L2 learning opportunities (often operationalized as language related episodes; LREs) in CW has primarily focused on the quantity, length, and outcome of LREs, but rarely considered the quality of the LREs. Also, scarce research has considered the fluctuating nature of pair dynamics and its impact on the L2 learning opportunities. This study employs an approach of detecting pair dynamics that accounts for its fluid nature to investigate how learners’ collaboration in various aspects of CW may influence the quantity, quality, focus, and outcome of the LREs in CW tasks by intermediate L2 learners. Results indicated that while discussion on task management and organization generally took up a limited...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: corpus

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The present study performs a meta-analysis to examine the effectiveness of corpus use in English as a second language (ESL) / English as a foreign language (EFL) writing. Data from 30 studies encompassing 56 effect sizes reported between 2000 and 2022 were collected for the analysis. Furthermore, multiple meta-regression analyses were conducted to explore the variables that may influence the observed effects. These variables are extracted from three groups of data: publication data, population data, and treatment data. The results demonstrate a large overall effect size (g = 0.95) for the impact of corpus use in ESL/EFL student writing performance. This finding suggests that utilizing corpora significantly enhances students’ writing abilities in these contexts. Moreover, the analyses of moderators reveal that the observed effects can...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: estrategias de aprendizaje

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With the large increase in online English language learners, there is a need to explore how those learners practise self-regulated writing in such an autonomous learning context. This article reports on an exploratory study of self-regulated learning strategies used by two writing-proficiency groups (low and high) of Saudi English majors within an online context. Data were collected from a total of 50 (high proficiency = 23 and low proficiency = 27) students using video-stimulated recall of two online writing tasks. Quantitative analysis of the students’ stimulated recall data revealed that students in both proficiency groups used 11 self-regulated strategies to complete the two online writing tasks. Results also revealed a positive correlation between self-regulated learning strategy use and the students’ writing proficiency level....

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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Model texts have been widely recognized as an effective feedback instrument in enhancing second-language (L2) writing. Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), capable of producing humanlike text in response to user prompts, offer an accessible and efficient alternative for generating customized model texts tailored to L2 learners’ specific goals and proficiency levels. Despite this potential, little empirical research has examined L2 students’ practice and perceptions of leveraging GenAI for model text creation to support their revision. To address this gap, this study follows a process approach to investigate students’ prompting strategies to elicit AI-generated model texts, their noticing and incorporation of the model text features, and their perceptions of this process. Data were collected from 12 university...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: expresión escrita

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La destreza de la expresión escrita tiene un gran protagonismo en el currículo, pero ¿hasta qué punto su explotación en clase es significativa? ¿Cuál es el objetivo del profesor cuando lleva una actividad de expresión escrita al aula? Un claro ejemplo de esto es la explotación que, a menudo, se hace del género «crítica cinematográfica». ¿En cuántas ocasiones nuestros alumnos necesitarán en su día a día escribir una crítica de cine para publicarla en un periódico? A partir de una serie de preguntas sobre cómo se trabaja la expresión escrita en clase y sobre la presencia en los manuales de actividades de expresión escrita, proponemos una actividad para trabajar el género de la «crítica de cine» de...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: literatura

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El microcuento es una valiosa herramienta para que los estudiantes de nivel intermedio adquieran ya las estrategias de comprensión y producción de textos necesarias en niveles superiores. Su carácter escrito y su finalidad estilística no resultan inconvenientes si desarrollamos adecuadamente las virtudes de brevedad, linealidad, precisión y capacidad de síntesis en el aula. También le proporcionará al estudiante una nueva forma de codificar no solo lo que dice, sino lo que quiere decir, de forma parecida a cómo lo haría en su lengua materna.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión escrita

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Collaborative writing (CW) involves two or more students writing a single text together. Previous studies mainly focused on students’ cognitive engagement in CW and investigated their attention to various language-related problems during task interaction. However, little CW research to date has considered that engagement in language-related discussions can manifest from three dimensions: cognitive, social, and affective. Focusing on the multidimensional characteristics of engagement, this study investigated how Russian learners’ social and affective reactions influence their focus on language use while they completed a CW task. Drawing on Svalberg’s framework of engagement with language to identify the three dimensions of engagement, I conducted a mixed-method approach towards analysing the audio-recorded collaborative dialogues by...

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