Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: paremias

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Esta experiencia trata de acercarnos a la palabra para mejorar las competencias comunicativas orales y escritas de los nuevos hablantes de nuestro idioma. El uso de los refranes se incluye en el ámbito del nivel popular; en él abunda la subjetividad, se economizan considerablemente los medios lingüísticos y aparecen numerosas apelaciones al oyente. Relativo a esto podemos señalar que los proverbios y refranes son expresiones de contenido moral y didáctico que se transmiten de manera oral.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: aula invertida/flipped learning

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This study investigates the effects of the flipped classroom approach on five aspects of written communicative competence of learners of English as a foreign language (EFL): lexis, syntax, cohesion, pragmatics, and discourse. It experimented on two groups of Chinese undergraduates in a regular college English course, using a flipped learning approach on one group and a traditional lecture approach on the other. The results from a pre-test and post-test revealed that the flipped approach had differential effects on the aforementioned five sub-competencies. More specifically, the flipped group’s overall performance was better than the control group in the post-test, indicating an overall positive role of the flipped approach on EFL learners’ development of communicative competence. However, significant group differences were found only...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: evaluación

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Research on group dynamic assessment has predominantly focused on whole-class mediation, with limited attention given to alternative formats such as in smaller groups. Grounded in sociocultural theory, the present study explored how a small-group online dynamic assessment using video conferencing (i.e., Zoom) and Google Docs enhanced the English academic writing abilities of university-level second language (L2) learners. Twelve students in an intermediate academic writing course were divided into four groups, each consisting of three to four students. An adjusted cumulative group dynamic assessment approach was implemented over three week cycles. The analysis examined both quantitative and qualitative changes in teacher mediation and student responsiveness, as observed in relevant episodes both within and across sessions. For the...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: dramatización

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El objetivo primordial de esta propuesta es mostrar los beneficios de la aplicación de técnicas dramáticas en la enseñanza de E/LE y cómo estas favorecen un agradable aprendizaje en las distintas destrezas: comprensión escrita, comprensión oral, expresión escrita y expresión oral. La autora parte de su trabajo de investigación sobre actividades dramáticas aplicadas a la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera, realizado tras cursar Filología Hispánica, el Máster en Artes Escénicas y Patrimonio Cultural y el posgrado en Teatro y Educación.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: expresión escrita

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Con esta propuesta didáctica se pretende estimular el desarrollo de la destreza escrita de los alumnos de E/LE (Español como Lengua Extranjera) y favorecer procesos de aprendizaje cooperativo. Para lograr estos objetivos generales se ha diseñado una secuencia de actividades orientada a la creación en equipo de un producto final: un artículo en una wiki con la biografía de un personaje ficticio (el gato de Dalí). Dentro del marco teórico del constructivismo y del conjunto metodológico del aprendizaje cooperativo, en esta comunicación se mostrará cómo la wiki se presenta como una herramienta tecnológica particularmente adecuada para la realización de tareas cooperativas y con ventajas específicas...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión escrita

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The benefits of using digital storytelling are well documented in the literature. Whether and how these advantages can be extended to digital story-writing, especially for young learners, remains underexplored. Recent advancement in technology has the potential of streamlining the stages of planning and revising in a process approach to second language writing. The present study examined how English teachers in two Hong Kong primary schools adopted a process approach to teach digital story-writing. They planned eight writing lessons for 10 Primary 3–4 classes. Students were taught to use Google Slides to write their stories on iPads and complete a recording in small groups, which were then published on an online platform. Findings from focus-group interviews, lesson observations and student writings revealed that students were highly...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: feedback/retroalimentación

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The current body of literature on model texts as a written corrective feedback (WCF) technique has primarily examined the interaction among participants, or the quality of written drafts. However, there is a notable gap in understanding the impact of a child’s oral interaction on their written output and the traceability of their noticing. Using a longitudinal design, the research involved 60 children (aged 11–12 years) studying English as a foreign language (EFL) who were divided into three groups: a treatment group (TG); a long-term treatment group (LTG); and a control group (CG). The treatment groups received either short-term or long-term feedback incorporating model texts as exemplars of proficient writing, while the CG relied on self-correction of their texts. The results indicate that (1) the LTG made significantly more (...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: expresión escrita

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La fluidez se concibe y se practica en el aula fundamentalmente como un atributo de las destrezas productivas orales, mientras la instrucción de la expresión escrita tiende a quedar dominada por preocupaciones de carácter formal. Se presentan, pues, consideraciones para fundamentar actividades que faciliten el desarrollo de la fluidez a la hora de escribir y se describen dos secuencias para ejemplificarlo.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: feedback/retroalimentación

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This study reports on part of a larger research project that investigates the role of students’ first language in learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in the context of Japanese higher education. Despite the prevalent use of peer review in EFL writing classes, students’ use of different languages and the effects of English proficiencies on collaborative interaction as mediated in written peer feedback remain underresearched. To add to the rather sparse literature, this study comparatively analysed peer feedback provided by high- and low-proficiency Japanese EFL students and conducted stimulated recall interviews to determine the factors affecting their language choices. The text analysis presented a stark contrast in students’ language choices stemming mainly from a difference in the type of feedback provided by each group: ‘...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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Writing has long been seen as a challenging skill that language learners need to learn. In addition, by guaranteeing participant engagement in significant communication processes, visual methods such as photovoice can be utilized in language instruction to enhance language learning. Thus, the present study attempted to examine the effects of utilizing Photovoice as an innovative instructional method on Iranian intermediate English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ writing skills. The study also examined the participants’ attitudes toward the implementation of photovoice in language learning. The research followed a mixed-methods design to collect and process the data. Sixty female intermediate learners from a private English language institute in Isfahan, Iran, were selected through convenience sampling and then randomly assigned...

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