Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enfoque por tareas

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This qualitative study examined factors mediating a novice’s and an experienced English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher’s different adherence to critical components based on a tentative framework of fidelity of implementation (FoI) for task-based language teaching (TBLT). The 18-week study involved two teachers and 109 students at a Chinese University. Qualitative findings suggested that, compared with the experienced teacher, the novice teacher implemented with lower fidelity to three pedagogical principles, encouraging inductive (“chunk”) learning, focusing on form and providing negative feedback. Elicited data from observation logs and interviews indicated that factors influencing the teachers’ variation entailed their beliefs, teaching experience, and teacher–student relationship. Implications for upskilling and supporting...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: experiencia práctica

Temas: Portfolio Europeo de las Lenguas (PEL)

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Presentación de un portfolio digital y de sus aplicaciones didácticas. Índice: antecedentes; objetivos; modelos de portfolio —el Portfolio del Estudiante de Lenguas, el Portfolio del Profesor en Formación y el Cuaderno de Terapia—; y resultados y discusión.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enfoque por tareas

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This study investigated the relationship between task-based teacher training and novice English language teachers’ cognitions and implementations of tasks in Honduran bilingual schools. After participating in a four-week training program on task-based language teaching, teachers with little or no prior teaching experience designed task-based lessons and were video-recorded implementing those lessons with English language learners ages 5 to 12. Following the classroom observation, teachers participated in a stimulated recall interview. A rubric aligned with 10 key principles of task-based language teaching (TBLT) as outlined by Long (2015) was used to rate teachers’ performance and code stimulated recalls. Ratings of video observations showed varied success in TBLT implementation after training, with some teachers’ lessons clearly...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: formación de profesores

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Developing teachers’ professional agency through standard models of instructional designs is critical in helping them deal with the barriers in designing and implementing online learning environments. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the role of an ADDIE (Analysis–Design–Development–Implementation–Evaluation) model of the computer-assisted language learning (CALL) teacher preparation program (TPP) in developing TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language) student-teachers’ professional agency (PA). We conducted an instrumental (exploratory) case study to explore the PA development of 18 TEFL student-teachers who took a CALL course that was designed based on ADDIE. The deductive thematic analysis of student-teachers’ autobiographical narratives, unstructured interviews, and course projects showed that each stage of...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza en línea e híbrida

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Foreign language teaching in distance education is administratively and pedagogically challenging; research on the perspectives of novice practitioners’ online teaching is also relatively scarce. This study explores how a novice Japanese teacher navigated and negotiated her professional development in a two-way virtual practitionership during her first online teaching. Data were collected from ongoing dialogue journals between the novice and her mentor followed by a semi-structured interview. Qualitative results indicate that pedagogically-sound and personalized digital tools can not only reduce the psychological distance between the teachers and students, but facilitate online teaching and learning via a performance-driven, standard-based curriculum. Informed by Action Research, the study reveals how both practitioners de/...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: experiencia práctica

Temas: migración y acogida

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Soy profesora de español para extranjeros e imparto clases a inmigrantes desde hace dos años. Mi experiencia práctica va a versar sobre la enseñanza del español a los inmigrantes y sobre los problemas que conlleva.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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Along with the increasing popularity of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies and the ongoing crisis of disinformation, the importance of digital literacies (DL) and preparing preservice English teachers to teach DL is well documented. Yet little research has explored DL in preservice language teacher education. This study addressed the gap by conceptualizing DL as both functional skills and social practices and developing an innovative GenAI-supported digital multimodal composing (DMC) approach to prepare preservice English teachers to teach DL. Multiple sources of data were collected in two language teacher education programs in Hong Kong with preservice English teachers from diverse backgrounds. A combination of thematic and multimodal analysis reveals positive responses and a range of benefits, challenges and...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: formación de profesores

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Exploratory practice (EP) is a form of practitioner research that has made inroads in second language learning and teaching since the special issue of Language Teaching Research (2003) in which Allwright et al. proposed its reconceptualization in language teaching. Two decades later, this article reports on the influence that EP has accomplished by having its principled framework integrated in the pre-service language teacher education (LTE) programmes of two Brazilian Universities. A British Council funded project (2018–19) enabled a group of Brazilian teacher educators to carry out a qualitative investigation to identify how 44 of their former teacher-learners who undertook these programmes between 2008 and 2018 perceive the value of EP in their professional lives. The thematic analysis of the discourse generated through face-to-...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: evaluación

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Guided by sociocultural theory, this single-case narrative inquiry views language assessment literacy development as a process of language assessment concept formation and examines how a teacher’s language assessment concepts were formed, what sociocultural elements mediated those concept formations, and how the focal teacher emotionally experienced those concept formations. To fulfill these aims, approximately 15 hours of audio and video data were collected from a novice Vietnamese teacher of English as a foreign language via interviews, classroom observations, and verbal reports. The data were transformed into narrative vignettes which were then subject to directed content analysis guided by...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: experiencia práctica

Temas: enseñanza en línea e híbrida

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En este trabajo presentamos el concepto de aprendizaje mixto que hemos desarrollado en nuestro centro de trabajo en el que las clases presenciales se combinan con el trabajo asíncrono en la plataforma Moodle y con sesiones síncronas en webconferencias. Nos detenemos brevemente en los papeles que según el constructivismo pedagógico —teoría que subyace a nuestro concepto— desempeñan los tres actores principales del proceso de aprendizaje: alumno, metodología y docente. A manera de ejemplo presentamos una unidad didáctica explotada de acuerdo con este concepto para poner de manifiesto de forma práctica la actuación del alumno, el trabajo colaborativo como base de la metodología constructivista de...

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