Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

Resumen:

Los cambios recientes producidos en el ámbito de la educación y, particularmente, en la adquisición de segundas lenguas, como son la utilización de metodologías activas y el viraje en el foco de atención de la gramática hacia el vocabulario, son el punto de partida de esta propuesta de innovación didáctica para una clase de ELE. En concreto, este trabajo parte de un método pedagógico donde el aprendizaje de vocabulario se sitúa en el centro del mismo, el método IBI, y de cómo una herramienta didáctica, la gamificación, puede aumentar su efectividad tanto en resultados de aprendizaje como en términos actitudinales. Para ello, este trabajo realiza una propuesta de innovación didáctica que consiste en seis lecciones enmarcadas en el recorrido del Camino de Santiago inglés.

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Tipo: libro

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: enfoques y métodos

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This is not the first attempt to present a new approach to the teaching of second and foreign languages based on a new theory of language. Earlier attempts, most notably audiolingual approaches, have not met with great success. We think that this has happened for several reasons. A major problem was that the theories were not actually theories of language acquisition, but theories of something else; for example, the structure of language. Also, the application of the theory, the methodology, was not always adequately field-tested. What looked reasonable to the university professor on paper did not always work out in the classroom.

The Natural Approach, we hope, does not have these weaknesses. It is based on an empirically grounded theory of second language acquisition, which has been supported by a large number of scientific...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: vocabulario

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Este artículo presenta un resumen actualizado de la teoría, la investigación y asuntos prácticos relacionados con el método IBI (input-based incremental) de enseñanza de vocabulario, que consiste en la presentación de palabras meta en el input y el desarrollo progresivo (y completo) de varios aspectos del conocimiento léxico. El artículo se divide en cinco partes principales. Después de la introducción, en la segunda parte se aborda la teoría e investigación y se enfatiza cómo el método IBI está vinculado al procesamiento del input léxico y a estudios sobre (a) diferentes maneras de presentar palabras meta como input y (b) diferentes tareas (tasks) que se pueden asignar al trabajar con vocabulario. Se ha demostrado, por ejemplo, que la presencia de diferentes hablantes, estilos de habla y velocidades de habla produce efectos positivos...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

Resumen:

There is general agreement that speed of lexical access is an essential component for successful communication and fluent language use. In vocabulary acquisition research the majority of studies have focused on the acquisition of the form and meaning of new words but research into the teaching conditions leading to the improvement of speed of lexical access is still scarce. This article reports results of two studies which explored the effectiveness of two vocabulary teaching approaches for the development of speed and automaticity of lexical access by learners of Spanish as a foreign language. Participants in Study 1 were exposed to the target vocabulary in reading passages (incidental approach), while participants in Study 2 were exposed to the target words in explicit vocabulary activities (explicit approach). A pre- and post-...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: vocabulario

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This study examines the effects of word frequency and typographical enhancement (i.e., words in bold) on the learning of single words in Spanish L2 reading activities in a classroom setting. Learners read a text in which target words appearing in bold occurred one, five or 10 times. A parallel text was also provided in which those same words appeared un-bolded. Students were tested three times on both spelling and meaning of the target words: before, immediately after and two weeks after the reading activity. Results show that: (1) after five or 10 encounters, both spelling and meaning recognition skills increase; (2) words appearing in bold only lead to learning gains at a form recognition level immediately after the test is taken and do not contribute to the acquisition of meaning in the post-test; and (3) there is no interaction...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: práctica docente

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This study examines whether second-language instructors of Spanish overuse subject personal pronouns (SPPs) to facilitate communication with their English-speaking students, which would be a form of teacher talk. Ten native Spanish-speaking language instructors were recorded in two speech contexts: teaching a third-semester Spanish class to native English-speaking learners and talking with another native Spanish speaker. Logistic regression analyses using GoldVarb revealed that SPP expression was strongly conditioned both by the classroom as a speech context and by the linguistic factors including morphological ambiguity of the verb and switch reference. Crucially, instructors' language in the classroom exhibited elevated and modified use of overt SPPs. This finding contributes to research on the variable use of Spanish SPPs, and it...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: materiales audiovisuales

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Repeated viewing of the same video is a common strategy among autonomous language learners as well as a much used pedagogical strategy among foreign language (FL) teachers. Learners may watch the same video more than once, to increase global comprehension of the target language or to focus their attention on linguistic aspects, such as new vocabulary or pronunciation. This study sought to examine to what extent repetition is more efficient for vocabulary learning if the second viewing follows the first immediately, or a week later. Participants were upper intermediate-level college learners who were distributed into three groups, one watched a TV series episode twice in the same session, one also watched the same episode twice but one week apart, and the last (control) group did not watch the video. Tests of word meaning recognition...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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Classroom studies have shown that learning new vocabulary from reading can be enhanced if the reading task is followed by a word-focused activity, such as a fill-in-the-blank activity. However, little is known about: (1) whether a post-reading word-focused activity can also positively affect vocabulary uptake in out-of-classroom contexts when there is no instructor support, (2) whether vocabulary gains differ based on proficiency levels, and (3) whether awareness of an upcoming post-reading word-focused activity influences learning gains. The present study addresses these issues by having native (high-proficient) or nonnative (L2 high-intermediate) English speakers read a narrative containing 16...

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