Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: feedback/retroalimentación

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Despite the wealth of studies on corrective feedback (CF) and its relationship with individual learner factors, little is known about how foreign language (FL) anxiety moderates the effectiveness of recasts during mobile-mediated audio interactions. The present study thus examined the association between learners’ FL anxiety, the effectiveness of recasts, and learners’ responses to recasts during synchronous mobile-mediated interactions via audio call. Two intact classes of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners were assigned into a control group and an experimental condition. After taking pre-tests, the participants of the experimental condition participated in four sessions of mobile-mediated oral interaction with an interlocutor via WhatsApp and received recasts for their definite and indefinite article errors. The...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: interacción

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La interacción oral ha permanecido marginada en la enseñanza de lenguas a distancia, tanto en el aula como fuera de ella con tareas que consisten en ejercicios escritos. Presentamos una propuesta didáctica basada en la combinación del enfoque por tareas y del enfoque léxico para estudiantes de ELE de nivel A1, en un entorno de enseñanza a distancia digital, centrada en la interacción oral. Unimos sincronía y asincronía para proponer que es posible la práctica de esta destreza en cursos de ELE a distancia, tanto en tiempo real como con la asignación de tareas orales, como defiende Méndez García (2010), mediante cuatro herramientas tecnológicas: Zoom, Flipgrid, Voxopop y WhatsApp. El resultado es...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación

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Willingness to communicate (WTC) plays a key role in foreign language learning. However, little research has been devoted to the role of achievement goals and achievement emotions in understanding WTC. The present study aimed to examine the relationship between achievement goals (i.e. mastery goals, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goals) and WTC via achievement emotions, specifically enjoyment and anxiety. Chinese secondary school students ( N = 408) participated in this study. Both variable- and person-centered approaches were used to analyse the data. Study 1 used a variable-centered approach to investigate the relationship between achievement goals and WTC. Results indicated that mastery and performance-approach goals were positively associated with WTC via higher levels of enjoyment. However, anxiety was not...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: adquisición de segundas lenguas

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This article reports a classroom-based study of the effects of two types of corrective feedback (CF) on the acquisition of 3rd person -s. One hundred and nine Chinese university students completed three communicative tasks: One group received implicit CF consisting of a single corrective move (implicit recasts), a second group received explicit CF consisting of a dual corrective move (a prompt followed by a more explicit recast), a third group performed the tasks without feedback, and a control group just completed two tests. The groups completed two pre-tests, immediate post-tests and delayed post-tests. Gains in accuracy in a test of procedural knowledge (an elicited imitation test) and in a test of declarative knowledge (an untimed grammaticality judgement test) were evident in the first three groups but with few differences among...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: atención a la forma

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An extensive number of studies have examined the effectiveness of incidental focus on form (FonF) measured through uptake in primarily communicative activities and established an association between learners’ uptake of linguistic features and their subsequent second language development. In this strand of research, the analysis of linguistic forms has been constrained to grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling. However, as self-contained units of meaning, formulaic sequences (FSs), comprising collocations, lexical bundles, idioms, compounds, etc., have not yet been the object of FonF research. Inspired by the fact that a substantial proportion of natural discourse consists of FSs, the present study investigated the degree to which incidental focus-on-form episodes (FFEs) with formulaic vis-à-vis other linguistic foci occur,...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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This action research study explored the influence of questioning strategies on fostering critical thinking in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms among Arabic-speaking elementary students in the Arab sector in Israel. Unlike previous studies that either describe questioning patterns or provide experimental interventions, the study described here uniquely integrates action research with conversation analysis (CA), offering both a reflective teaching framework and a rigorous discourse-analytic lens. Using an action research approach combined with CA, the research examined teacher–student interactions in two sixth-grade EFL classes over a 4-month period. Data were collected from recorded classroom lessons and analyzed to identify how different types of questions shape students’ responses and promote critical thinking. The...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: registro coloquial

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En el discurso oral, especialmente en el coloquial, es frecuente hallar un tipo de enunciados que no cabe equiparar con la unidad convencional oración: son las denominadas construcciones suspendidas. Constituyen una suerte de construcción que las gramáticas al uso conciben incompleta, aunque, según puede comprobarse, son completas merced a la estrategia comunicativa que se infiere en ellas. Nos referimos a construcciones como: Esa noche hacía un frío… Así, en este trabajo nos proponemos llevar al aula el discurso oral en su modalidad más genuina, la conversación coloquial, a partir del estudio y análisis de las construcciones suspendidas, con el fin de que los alumnos reconozcan su peculiar...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: interacción

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It is commonly agreed that learner target language output and spoken interaction are essential to communicative language learning. This video-based classroom observation study of five lower secondary schools in Norway investigated how second language (L2) English and third language (L3) French teachers responded to their students when they spoke the target language in class. Using categories and functions from classroom interaction research and corrective feedback research, L2 English and L3 French teachers’ response patterns to learner target language output were identified and compared. Findings indicated that L2 English teachers taught in a meaning- and fluency-oriented context, frequently...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: factores afectivos

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En el aula de lenguas extranjeras, los alumnos disponen de un repertorio lingüístico en proceso de desarrollo, que les impide muchas veces expresar todo su potencial comunicativo. Y es justo en este contexto que se observa el impacto más significativo de las variables personales. La decisión de comunicarse que asume el hablante siempre que tiene la oportunidad de hacerlo influye directamente en los logros en su competencia comunicativa en la lengua extranjera. En este sentido, conocer los componentes de la disposición a comunicarse, cómo generarla y mantenerla en el aula pueden ser la clave hacia una enseñanza/aprendizaje de la expresión y la interacción oral más efectiva. El objetivo de este...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enfoque por tareas

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This study is aimed to identify the effects of task complexity on first language (L1) use and the functions it may serve when two groups of learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) work on collaborative tasks. Twenty-four pairs of Chinese EFL learners from two universities were assigned to a lower-proficiency and a higher-proficiency group, each with twelve pairs. Each group completed two collaborative tasks of different cognitive complexity. The results showed that task complexity had an appreciable impact on the use of L1 and its functions. It is also found that the impact of task complexity was dependent on learners’ English proficiency. Specifically, the higher-proficiency group employed more L1 to perform complex tasks than they did in the simple versions of the tasks. These learners also devoted significantly more L1...

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