Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos

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Learners’ foreign language engagement (FLEng) plays a crucial role in language acquisition, yet its mediating influence between learner emotions and willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second language (L2) remains underexplored. This study investigates how emotional contexts—including positive emotions such as foreign language peace of mind (FLPoM) and foreign language enjoyment (FLE), as well as negative emotions such as foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) and foreign language boredom (FLB)—affect English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ L2 WTC. Utilizing the 3D pyramid model of L2 WTC, we analyzed data from 301 participants who completed six questionnaires. The findings revealed that FLPoM, FLE, FLCA, and FLB did not directly influence L2 WTC. However, learners’ FLEng was found to fully mediate the relationships between...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: enseñanza de español en China

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En la actualidad, en la enseñanza universitaria de español como lengua extranjera del tercer y cuarto curso, parece que la organización de los cursos y el método tradicional en la enseñanza no pueden satisfacer las necesidades de los alumnos, por eso sería necesario introducir métodos nuevos en la enseñanza. En este trabajo, en primer lugar, presentaremos brevemente las habilidades que más necesitan desarrollar los alumnos del periodo superior; en segundo lugar, se analizarán las posibilidades y ventajas de introducir el doblaje en la enseñanza; por lo último, se presentarán unos modelos básicos y unos principios de este método didáctico.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: pretérito perfecto simple

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Esta experiencia práctica consiste en hacer que los alumnos inventen un relato en pasado a partir de la audición de una serie de sonidos y ruidos del entorno cotidiano (por ejemplo, una tormenta, un coche que arranca y se va, unos pasos que se acercan, el batir de un huevo, etc.). Los alumnos, basándose en los sonidos escuchados, tendrán que imaginar cuáles fueron los hechos que ocurrieron, así como la atmósfera y las circunstancias que los envolvieron. Para conseguir una mayor variedad de historias, el orden de escucha de los sonidos será totalmente arbitrario, es decir, no determinará la secuenciación de la historia.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: uso de la L1 en el aula

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This study examined the impact of collaborative pre-task strategic planning followed by rehearsal on the quantity and novelty of content used in task performances when strategic planning is performed in different language conditions in an online classroom. Forty Japanese university students of English as a foreign language (EFL) from two intact online classrooms were separated into pairs and performed second language (L2) problem-solution monologue tasks in two conditions. The first condition involved collaborative strategic planning in the second language (L2SP), which was followed by a task rehearsal; the second condition involved collaborative strategic planning in the first language (L1SP), which was followed by a task rehearsal. Task performances were analysed in terms of idea units generated and, by examining strategic planning...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: expresión oral

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Esta unidad didáctica está dirigida a alumnos de español como lengua extranjera con un nivel B1-B2, y su objetivo es desarrollar las destrezas orales, en especial la expresión oral. La unidad ha sido diseñada para ser impartida en clases de auxiliar de conversación.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión oral

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This study aimed to investigate whether and how willingness to communicate, communication in English anxiety, behavioural inhibition and action predict perceived second language (L2) fluency. The study also looked at whether L2 proficiency moderates the strength of relationships between these affective factors and L2 perceived fluency. One hundred learners of English were recorded while doing the Suitcase task (a monologic task) and were asked to complete a series of questionnaires and proficiency tests. Speech samples were then prepared for presentation to 26 experienced language teachers (and highly proficient users of English) as raters. Their task was to rate the speech samples in terms of perceived fluency. Results revealed that while willingness to communicate is a strong and positive predictor of perceived fluency,...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: estrategias de aprendizaje

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The present study investigated the effects of self-regulated strategy-based speaking instruction on English-as-a-foreign-language learners’ speaking performance and strategy use. Despite extensive research on self-regulated learning in various educational contexts, its application to second language speaking development remains underexplored. This explanatory mixed-methods quasi-experimental study employed self-report questionnaires, speaking assessments, and semi-structured interviews for data collection. A linear mixed-effects model results revealed that the experimental group (n = 54, receiving the self-regulated learning strategy-based intervention) demonstrated significantly greater improvement in speaking performance compared to the control group (n = 53, receiving traditional instruction), with effects sustained at delayed post...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: interacción

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El contenido conversacional que se trabaja en nuestra propuesta son los solapamientos, los elementos para iniciar turno, los elementos de turno de apoyo, las apelaciones al interlocutor y la comunicación no verbal. El alumnado no puede transferir esta competencia de la lengua materna, por ello en esta propuesta didáctica los exponemos a material audiovisual auténtico para que identifiquen los elementos conversacionales, los comprendan y los utilicen de manera que su producción oral se perciba más natural en la conversación. Partimos de una metodología que combina el enfoque directo (sensibilización de los fenómenos conversacionales) y el directo (actividades de práctica) que permitan la...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: metacognición

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This classroom-based, quasi-experimental study explored the impact of metacognitive instruction designed to promote young learners’ (1) willingness to communicate (WTC), (2) participation in communicative activities, and (3) metacognitive knowledge of oral communication. Forty-four Grade 3 students (8–9 years old) from two intact classes participated in the study. The learners in Class A (n = 23) engaged in a series of activities designed to increase their metacognition in relation to WTC, while Class B (n = 21) served as the control. Three outcome measures were explored in the pre-post design: (1) WTC questionnaire; (2) second language (L2) production during group work; and (3) empty WTC pyramids that the participants drew before and after the intervention. In addition, post-intervention interviews were conducted to understand the...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación

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Despite extensive research in task-based language learning, the role of learners’ motivational dispositions in their task experience and performance has remained underexplored. To help bridge that gap, this study investigated the relationships between second language (L2) learners’ chronic regulatory focus and their oral task emotions and performance. One hundred and thirty-three high school students studying English as a foreign language in China completed a regulatory focus questionnaire, an English proficiency self-rating questionnaire, an oral opinion task, and a post-task questionnaire measuring their task anxiety and enjoyment. Multiple regression results showed that the learners’ chronic promotion focus positively predicted their task enjoyment, which, in turn, predicted their oral task performance. In addition, the...

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