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This study examines the impact of Gen-AI on EFL learners' foreign language (FL) pronunciation ability, FL speaking anxiety, self-directed speaking motivation, and social interaction confidence through Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT). Using a mixed-methods approach, the study conducted quantitative assessments of pronunciation ability and speaking anxiety, while qualitatively exploring learners' experiences with Gen-AI feedback through in-depth interviews. Findings suggest that learners experienced improvements in pronunciation ability and reductions in FL speaking anxiety, which coincided with increased self-directed motivation and social interaction confidence. When...

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This study examined the relationship between anxiety and native language skill and foreign language aptitude measures among 154 high school foreign language learners. Three levels of anxiety were identified using the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale or FLCAS (Horwitz, Horwitz, & Cope, 1986). Low Anxiety (LO-ANX) students were expected to have significantly stronger native language skills and foreign language aptitude than High Anxiety (HI-ANX) students and significantly higher foreign language grades. Findings showed overall significant differences among the groups on nine variables, including measures of native language phonology/orthography, semantics, and verbal memory; foreign language aptitude; eighth-grade English grade; and end-of-year foreign language grade. Discriminant analysis results showed that all test...

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Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

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This study reviews the existing studies on AI second language (L2) chatbots to investigate the development of empathetic strategies for enhancing learners' learning outcomes. Prior studies from 2012 to 2022 in Web of Science, ProQuest, IEEE and ScienceDirect were collected and analyzed. The study found that three dimensions —cultural, empathetic and humorous— have a positive influence on the application of AI L2 chatbots. Several recommendations are made, including integrating cross-cultural empathetic responses in conversational L2 chatbots, identifying how learners perceive and react to the learning content, and investigating the effects of cross-culture humor on learners' language...

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The use of chatbots as learning assistants is receiving increasing attention in language learning due to their ability to converse with students using natural language. Previous reviews mainly focused on only one or two narrow aspects of chatbot use in language learning. This review goes beyond merely reporting the specific types of chatbot employed in past empirical studies and examines the usefulness of chatbots in language learning, including first language learning, second language learning, and foreign language learning. We conducted a systematic search and identified 25 empirical studies, using the inductive grounded approach to identify the technological and pedagogical affordances and the challenges of using chatbots, and Garrison's social presence framework to analyze the social affordances.

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The extraordinary abilities of ChatGPT to perform complex tasks within the field of education has caused mixed feelings among educators, as this advancement in AI seems to revolutionize existing educational praxis. This is an exploratory study that synthesizes recent extant literature to offer some potential benefits and drawbacks of ChatGPT in promoting teaching and learning. Benefits include the promotion of personalized and interactive learning and generating prompts for formative assessment activities that provide ongoing feedback. The paper also highlights inherent limitations such as generating wrong information and biases in data training, and offers recommendations on how ChatGPT could be...

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Artículo que define la ansiedad ante la lengua extranjera como un constructo propio, distinto de la ansiedad general, y no como un simple trasvase de otras ansiedades al aula de idiomas.

Los autores la describen a partir de tres componentes —aprensión comunicativa, miedo a la evaluación negativa y ansiedad ante los exámenes— y presentan la Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS), una escala de 33 ítems cuya fiabilidad y validez comprueban con estudiantes universitarios. La escala se ha convertido en el instrumento de referencia de esta línea de investigación.

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Generative AI tools provide opportunities for personalizing and improving the education process. This paper analyzes the tool Brisk Teaching, used in the courses Information and Communication Technologies and E-Business during the academic year 2024/25 at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management. After recognizing weak points in students' knowledge, the authors implemented chatbots to help students learn and to provide professors with quick feedback on student progress. The paper examines the connection between students' activity with the GenAI tool and the results achieved in the knowledge test: students were very satisfied with its implementation and believe it provides additional motivation for learning.

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Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de la gramática

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Quinto volumen de las actas de Expolingua, con las ponencias del encuentro de 2002, recuperado por la Biblioteca Histórica de marcoELE.

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• Isabel Alonso Belmonte — Análisis del discurso en acción: el papel de las nociones de tema y rema en la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras
• Isidoro Castellanos — Análisis de necesidades y establecimiento de objetivos
• Cristina Escobar y Lucy Nussbaum — ¿Es posible evaluar la interacción oral en el aula?
• Jimena Fernández Pinto y Olga Juan Lázaro — Materiales E/LE en la red: ¿cuándo son útiles? ¿cómo seleccionarlos?
• Lourdes Güell — Análisis del contraste de los pasados y algunas...

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Examines the effects of ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode on the development of university students' oral proficiency. Following a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, the study measured improvement over an 8-week intervention and then gathered learners' perspectives through semi-structured interviews. Quantitative findings showed that fluency and lexical resources increased significantly, but pronunciation did not. The qualitative data focus on three themes: the potential of AI for low-anxiety practice, learners' frustration with the lack of nuanced feedback on accent, and difficulties with real-time corrective functions. The authors propose a «Mixed Dialogical Model» combining...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos

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Pone a prueba un modelo integrado del aprendizaje de segundas lenguas que reúne en un solo esquema causal las variables que la investigación había estudiado por separado: aptitud lingüística, actitudes, motivación, ansiedad, autoconfianza, estrategias de aprendizaje y expectativas de campo.

Método: cuestionarios y pruebas aplicados a 102 estudiantes universitarios de francés, analizados con ecuaciones estructurales. Resultado: la aptitud y la motivación son las dos variables que predicen directamente el rendimiento, y el resto actúa sobre él por mediación de la motivación; el trabajo consolida el modelo socioeducativo de Gardner.

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