Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación

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As language departments increasingly face enrollment concerns, empirical research can provide insights regarding students' reasons to study Spanish. Motivation has a key influence in learners' success and can be internal (e.g., an intrinsic desire or passion for learning) or external (e.g., imposed by others). This study examined motivational factors (motives) for students (N = 149) enrolled in the first required, last required, and first elective Spanish undergraduate courses. Seven motivational categories were examined: Integrative, Instrumental, Intrinsic, Ideal self, Ought-to self, Wish for language proficiency, and Political context. Results at all levels showed that Wish for language fluency was the principal motivator while factors stemming from external motivations were less important. Students in the elective course displayed...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos

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This study investigated differences in students' foreign language anxiety and foreign language self-efficacy related to skill-specific foreign language tasks (i.e., speaking, listening, reading, and writing) across five levels of university foreign language coursework. A total of 206 participants in 12 university Spanish classrooms (ranging from Beginning Spanish I to Intermediate Spanish II) were surveyed for this study. The findings revealed that students who have higher levels of skill-specific foreign language anxieties provided corresponding lower ratings on skill-specific foreign language self-efficacies. Analyses also revealed that students' ratings for foreign language anxiety for each foreign language-learning skill were not significantly different across the five levels of coursework. However, students' ratings of foreign...

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Tipo: antología

Temas: migración y acogida

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En la presente antología de textos se incluyen una serie de artículos cuyas reflexiones, técnicas y sugerencias nos remiten a claves con las que favorecer y enriquecer el aprendizaje de español segunda lengua para alumnos de procedencia inmigrante, en contextos reglados y no reglados. Los artículos seleccionados así como las restantes referencias bibliográficas, tratan esencialmente dos áreas, muy presentes hoy en la didáctica de lenguas: el componente afectivo y la didáctica intercultural. Ambas consideraciones giran alrededor del individuo y de sus mecanismos de aprendizaje y por tanto constituyen una fuente constante de reflexiones e ideas sobre las que se asientan toda una serie de líneas de actuación con profundas implicaciones en los planteamientos didácticos de la enseñanza de segundas lenguas.

Muchas de las conclusiones...

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Tipo: libro

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: diferencias individuales

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This book presents comprehensive, thorough and updated analyses of key cognitive individual difference factors (e.g., age, intelligence, language aptitude, working memory, metacognition, learning strategies, and anxiety) as they relate to the acquisition, processing, assessment, and pedagogy of second or foreign languages. Critical reviews and in-depth research syntheses of these pivotal cognitive learner factors are put into historical and broader contexts, drawing upon the multiple authors' extensive research experience, penetrating insights and unique perspectives spanning applied linguistics, teacher training, educational psychology, and cognitive science. The carefully crafted chapters provide essential course readings and valuable references for seasoned researchers and aspiring postgraduate students in the broad fields of...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: profesorado

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This study focuses on understanding language teachers' lived experiences of their stressors and positive uplifts from a holistic perspective covering their professional lives in school, their personal lives beyond, and the connection between the two. The aim was to explore the nature of teachers' experiences of stress and how they spilled over from work into home domains. We also were keen to understand the dynamics of their experiences of stress and how their perception of daily stressors was related to their overall sense of wellbeing as well as their life and chronic stressors. The data were collected via a specially created app, which collected survey data and experience sampling method (ESM) data from language teachers across the globe. Teachers' wellbeing was investigated using the PERMA Profiler (Butler & Kern, 2016), their...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: feedback/retroalimentación

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Recent research indicated the effectiveness of immediate and delayed corrective feedback (CF) on second language (L2) learning. What is little known is the moderating effects of learner individual factors such as foreign language anxiety (FLA) on the efficacy of immediate and delayed CF. The primary aim of the present study is thus to investigate if learners? FLA can moderate the effectiveness of immediate and delayed feedback. To this end, 82 learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) were randomly assigned to two treatment conditions as well as a control group. During three treatment sessions, the participants performed storytelling tasks in groups of four and received either immediate or delayed metalinguistic feedback for the errors they made. Regarding the immediate feedback condition, each participant received...

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Tipo: libro

Temas: factores afectivos

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This book brings together 18 theoretical and empirical chapters that analyse the role of emotion (expression, perception, processing) and identity (notions and representations, construction, conflict) in the process of learning a second language. Studies on the differences in emotionality between L1 and L2 suggest that in L2 there is an alteration that, in many cases, manifests itself as a decrease in the affective load, which can lead to a certain indifference to the emotional content transmitted and to a lesser involvement in communication. It is also known that emotion plays a fundamental role in the construction of identity in a second language in the shaping of the self that feels and communicates and in the ability to cope with the learning process.

Most of the studies have focused on the understanding of these issues in...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: motivación

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At the turn of the new millennium, in an article published in Language Teaching Research in 2000, Dörnyei and Kormos proposed that "active learner engagement is a key concern" for all instructed language learning. Since then, language engagement research has increased exponentially. In this article, we present a systematic review of 20 years of language engagement research. To ensure robust coverage, we searched 21 major journals on second language acquisition (SLA) and applied linguistics and identified 112 reports satisfying our inclusion criteria. The results of our analysis of these...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: español como lengua de herencia

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As emotions research in the field of second language acquisition continues to evolve, it is equally important to explore the impact of social-emotional variables that are specifically relevant to heritage language (HL) contexts. Anchoring on foundations in critical heritage language education (HLE), this study examines the discomforts of the HL classroom from a diverse heritage speaker (HS) perspective. Additionally, comforts that support the HL classroom as a safe space for emotional security and well-being for HSs across HLs are explored. Examining the HL classroom from the perspective of HL practices and knowledge systems, this study ultimately aims to: (a) outline the emotional complexity of HL...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: study abroad/estudios en el extranjero

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Este artículo analiza el grado y el tipo de motivación en 97 estudiantes de español L2 universitarios en un programa de estudios en el extranjero (PREE). También indaga sobre el efecto del contacto con hispanohablantes previo a la movilidad, el uso de la lengua durante la estancia y las actitudes sobre el español y sus comunidades de habla. La investigación, de tipo estadístico descriptivo y correlacional, empleó como instrumento una versión adaptada del cuestionario MAALE. Se encontraron un moderado grado de motivación y un ligero predominio de motivaciones de tipo intrínseco sobre las de tipo extrínseco. Asimismo, se hallaron asociaciones estadísticamente significativas del...

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