Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión escrita

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This study examined the components of writing strategies employed in the story continuation writing task (SCWT) and investigated how these strategies related to different aspects of writing performance. Specifically, it adopted factor analyses to validate the strategy subscale of Ye et al.’s (2021) writing performance questionnaire and used structural equation modeling (SEM) to explore the relationship between strategy use and writing performance, as measured by the holistic writing scores and 11 textual indices. The data comprised 330 questionnaire responses and 330 SCWT essays produced by the same group of high school English as a Foreign Language learners selected through convenience sampling. Factor analyses identified three task-specific strategy components: reading_to_select , reading_to_organize , and content_developing . These...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: escritura creativa

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El sueño de Picasso forma parte de una serie de actividades de redacción, desarrolladas en el Taller de escritura para estudiantes de ELE. El curso pasado presentamos la experiencia práctica Pintando poemas y este año nos gustaría compartir otras actividades que desarrollan habilidades comunicativas, en especial de forma escrita, de una forma lúdica.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión escrita

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This study investigated the effect of consistent freewriting practice on written fluency development. Thirty-nine first-year university students completed 70 10-minute freewriting activities over the course of an academic semester. Written fluency, measured as words produced per minute (wpm), increased from a mean of 19.5 wpm to 30.1 wpm over a period of 15 weeks. Further analysis revealed statistically significant gains over two-week intervals. The participants also wrote three timed TOEFL-style essays at the beginning, middle, and end of the semester to see whether fluency gains transferred to more structured contexts. The results showed a statistically significant increase in written output on the timed essays, along with an increase in holistic scores. Findings indicate that consistent freewriting can result in rapid and...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión escrita

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Drawing upon the dialogic theory, this study investigated the effects of writing personal experience narratives (PENs) of critical events on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ narrative competence development. The study collected a multiple source of data from 66 students at one Chinese university, including PENs of critical events, reflective journals, and semi-structured interviews. PENs were concerned with students’ critical events during the transitional periods of life from secondary to higher education, whereas reflective journals and interviews were used to gain students’ perceptions of narrative writing and narrative competence. Narrative competence was assessed via narrative writing performance, narrative coherence, and narrative cohesion. It was found that writing PENs over a period of two semesters aided EFL...

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Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: literatura

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La siguiente experiencia práctica consta de una serie de actividades relacionadas con la temática del cuento mediante las que se ponen en práctica las cuatro habilidades de la lengua (la expresión oral y escrita y la comprensión oral y escrita). Con esta secuencia didáctica se pretende trabajar diversos contenidos lingüísticos como el contraste de pasados en textos narrativos (pretérito indefinido/pretérito imperfecto), la descripción tanto física como de la personalidad de los personajes que aparecen en la narración y la estructura textual narrativa entre otros.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: study abroad/estudios en el extranjero

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In spite of the superior effects of semester- or year-long educational experiences abroad, the majority of students prefers short-term study abroad for which participation numbers are steadily rising. Due to the increased student interest in short-term study abroad options, investigations into how a short stay abroad can be designed to maximize learning outcomes for participants are important. While some studies suggest that technology can have negative impacts on language learning during study abroad, effective inclusion of technology can maximize learning. This article summarizes the results of three years of research investigating the effects of daily online journaling during an intensive German summer program on second language (L2) learners’ writing skills during an intensive German summer program. The context of the program will...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: feedback/retroalimentación

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This study investigates how learner language proficiency and peer familiarity interact to shape English as a Foreign Language students’ engagement with peer feedback, drawing on Fredricks et al.’s tripartite model of engagement (affective, cognitive, behavioral), self-determination theory, and social interdependence theory to conceptualize engagement as a socially mediated and motivationally dynamic process. To interpret engagement variation, the study incorporates self-determination theory and social interdependence theory, conceptualizing engagement as socially mediated and motivationally dynamic. Three research questions examine how language proficiency influences engagement, peer familiarity affects engagement across feedback roles, and the two variables interact, especially for low-proficiency learners. A 2 × 2 factorial mixed-...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: español de los negocios

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La creatividad forma parte del aprendizaje, especialmente en ELE, también para fines específicos como español para los negocios. El proceso creativo pone orden en los nuevos conocimientos o contenidos y, al mismo tiempo, el resultado genera satisfacción en el aprendiz. En otras palabras, aprendemos mejor cuando la tarea nos interesa o nos emociona. Existen varios tipos de tareas creativas, pero podrían agruparse en dos: algunas de ellas requieren el manejo de programas informáticos y otras son de tipo retórico o literario. En las tareas que aquí se proponen, el aprendiz es el protagonista de su aprendizaje y ha de crear de la nada un texto original e inédito. Finalmente, la creatividad es útil...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: feedback/retroalimentación

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This study examined the combined effects of written corrective feedback (WCF) and think-aloud protocols (TAPs) as two types of pedagogical intervention for improving the revision quality of second language (L2) writing. With a quasi-experimental design, it explored whether TAPs trigger deeper processing of WCF under two WCF-type conditions: direct or indirect WCF. Participants were 80 high-intermediate learners of English as a second language (ESL) at a US university who were divided into (1) direct WCF+TAPs; (2) direct WCF-only; (3) indirect WCF+TAPs; and (4) indirect WCF-only. The impacts of the interventions were gauged by changes in seven subsystems of complexity–accuracy–lexis (CAL) between the first and final drafts of narrative essays. Results showed differential impacts of the four conditions depending on the linguistic...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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Transferring collaborative writing (CW) activities from in-class paper-based to online cloud-mediated collaboration, this study examined the comparative effects of these two CW contexts on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ macro- and micro-writing skills and motivation. For this purpose, a cohort ( N = 54) of senior EFL college students was selected (using criterion-based purposive sampling) and then randomly assigned to two groups: paper-based collaboration (PC, n = 27) and cloud-based collaboration (CC, n = 27). Using a mixed-method design, the study employed both quantitative (expository and argumentative writing tests, and a motivation questionnaire) and qualitative (group and self-evaluation forms and reflection sheets) methods for data collection and analysis. Consequently, one-way multivariate analysis of variance (...

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