Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: escritura académica

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Academic writing, as a core skill in higher education, poses significant challenges in terms of language organization, logical reasoning, and creative thinking. Although educators have increasingly explored technology-assisted instruction as a solution, empirical findings on its effectiveness remain inconsistent. This meta-analysis therefore evaluates the overall effect of technology-assisted academic writing instruction and examines moderating factors by synthesizing 56 (quasi-)experimental studies from 6 databases, yielding 67 effect sizes. Findings revealed a significantly large and positive effect ( d = 1.209) of technology-assisted academic writing instruction on higher education students’ writing performance, with peak effectiveness observed in English-as-a-foreign-language contexts, genre-based approaches, low-intensity...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: translingüismo

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Translingual pedagogies have been proposed and implemented to respond to the increasing linguistic and cultural diversity in today’s classrooms. However, the findings of translingual pedagogies on English as an additional language (EAL) writing vary from facilitating to undermining teaching and learning. To understand the empirical landscape of this young and fast-growing research area, I systematically reviewed 62 studies with a research synthesis method to explore what translingual activities have been implemented and how they have impacted EAL writing teaching and learning (including both K-12 and post-secondary contexts). The findings reveal that various translingual activities, such as self-reflective writing and literacy narrative, have been enacted in EAL writing teaching and learning. These activities have been practiced in...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos

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English writing proficiency is crucial for undergraduate students in tertiary education; however, many second-language (L2) writers experience significant anxiety that impedes their ability to write effectively in English. This study explored the role of mindfulness and its components including novelty producing, novelty seeking, engagement, and flexibility in reducing writing anxiety among 200 English as a foreign language (EFL) Bangladeshi students, selected via convenience sampling. Participants completed the Langer Mindfulness Scale, and the Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory through online platforms. Quantitative findings revealed a moderate negative correlation between overall...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: experiencia práctica

Temas: discurso digital

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En abril de 2006 llevé a cabo una experiencia con mis alumnos de español como lengua extranjera (E/LE) y la utilización de blogs en una escuela de español en Barcelona. Partiendo de una investigación previa sobre la utilización de blogs en la enseñanza de E/LE, así como en la enseñanza en general y en la enseñanza de lenguas, decidí hacer un curso especial dedicado a los blogs. Los alumnos tenían un nivel B2 y diferentes nacionalidades: Brasil, Japón, Noruega y Hungría.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación

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This study was to examine the individual differences in primary school students’ motivation (i.e. growth mindset, self-efficacy, and interest), self-regulated learning strategy use in English writing and the relationships between motivation, strategy use and English writing competence. Participants were 523 4th grade primary school students in Hong Kong. Although the findings showed a general pattern that the high achievers reported higher levels of motivation (i.e. growth mindset, self-efficacy, and interest) and self-regulated learning (SRL) strategy use than the average achievers, who in turn outperformed the low achievers, all the students showed quite a low level of interest in English writing. Interestingly, motivation impacted SRL strategy use very differently for students of different writing competence groups on the whole....

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: feedback/retroalimentación

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The current study investigated the relative effects of direct and indirect written corrective feedback (WCF) on the learning of regular past tense, and the extent to which learning outcomes were related to individual variation in field dependence/independence (FDI). Fifty-nine Chinese intermediate second language (L2) learners of English were randomly assigned to two treatment groups and a control group. The two treatment groups carried out three written dictogloss tasks and received direct WCF and indirect WCF, respectively, on their erroneous use of regular past tense. The control group performed the same writing tasks but received feedback on the content of their writing. To evaluate the effect of treatment, a grammaticality judgement task and a picture description task were administered as the pretest, immediate posttest, and...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión escrita

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Productive vocabulary is widely recognized as an essential component of second language proficiency, yet it remains one of the most challenging aspects of lexical development. This study investigated whether continuation writing could enhance learners’ productive vocabulary knowledge. In a longitudinal experiment, 75 Chinese EFL learners were assigned to either an experimental group or a control group. The experimental group completed a continuation writing practice every 2 weeks, followed by a free writing post-test 1 week later; the control group completed independent writing practices and took the same post-tests. A total of 525 essays were collected. Indices of lexical density, diversity, and sophistication were extracted using TAALED and TAALES, and analyzed through linear mixed-effects models and repeated-measures correlation...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: experiencia práctica

Temas: expresión oral

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En este artículo vamos a presentar un ejemplo de experiencia memorable de aprendizaje realizada con estudiantes de ELE (Español Lengua Extranjera) de la Universidad francesa de Rouen Normandie. El objetivo de esta experiencia es el de ayudarles a desarrollar y mejorar la calidad de las destrezas lingüísticas del español. Para llevar a cabo esta experiencia de aprendizaje hemos creado actividades de producción oral y escrita inspiradas en las características del grafiti.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: tecnología educativa

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No pertenezco a la denominada cultura digital; no nací con un ordenador debajo del brazo, apenas un pan, como sucedía antes; la videoconsola más sofisticada que existía consistía en una pantalla gris con una línea en medio haciendo las veces de red de una pista de tenis; y en la primera clase del primer curso de informática al que asistí nos enseñaron a formatear disquetes, ya que estos venían impolutos e inmaculados. Se perdían horas antes de poder empezar a escribir y a guardar.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación

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Recently, second language (L2) researchers gradually shift their focus on learners’ motivational and emotional responses to specific language skills, such as L2 writing. However, there is a paucity of empirical research on the relationships between learners’ L2 writing performance, motivation, and emotions from a longitudinal perspective. With a sample of 235 English-major students from a Chinese university, the present study explored the changes in the ideal L2 writing self and its relationships with L2 writing enjoyment and L2 writing anxiety among students with different integrated writing (IW) performance over an academic year. The ANOVA results reported that the ideal L2 writing self remained stable over time and showed no significant difference among three groups of students (high-level, middle-level, and low-level). The multi-...

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