Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de la gramática

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Podemos definir la palabra gramática desde dos perspectivas diferentes, aunque relacionadas entre sí: la primera se refiere al saber implícito que cada hablante de una lengua tiene de esta, y cómo desde su conocimiento interno es capaz de comunicarse de forma competente y comprensible. La segunda visión de gramática es aquella que se centra en explicar este conocimiento mediante normas, reglas y descripciones que funcionan como guía para el correcto y eficaz uso de la lengua misma.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: gamificación

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Limited vocabulary leads to decreased performance and motivation in reading comprehension among students who learn English as a foreign language (EFL). Morphological analysis provides an effective means to problem-solve the meanings of unknown words and support reading comprehension. This study designed the non-digital gamification approach based on the five game features proposed by Richard E. Mayer to support collaborative morphological analysis. It compared the effects of a non-digital gamified and conventional morphological analysis intervention on reading outcomes and intrinsic motivation. An explanatory sequential mixed-method research design was adopted. Two classes from a secondary school in China were recruited and assigned to either the experimental group receiving the non-digital gamified programme ( N = 52) or the control...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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The selection of lexical units for pedagogy and research has been a contentious issue in second language (L2) vocabulary studies; however, many investigations have lacked classroom-based research. This mixed-methods quasi-experimental study examined the effects of teaching word families on vocabulary acquisition among adolescent first-language (L1) Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language learners. The quantitative component employs a quasi-experimental research design with 2 groups: an experimental group—the word-families group (n = 44)—which received structural elaboration instruction on 50 target words from the course textbook along with their inflected and derived forms, and a comparison group—the individual-word-forms group (n = 49)—which received semantic elaboration instruction focused on individual word forms and their meanings....

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: adquisición de segundas lenguas

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The Bilingual Syntax Measure (Burt, Dulay, and Hernandez 1973) was administered to 73 adult learners of English as a second language in order to investigate accuracy of usage for eight English functors. It was found that there is a highly consistent order of relative difficulty in the use of the functors across different language backgrounds, indicating that learners are experiencing intra-language difficulties. Also, the adult results agreed with those obtained by Dulay and Burt (1973) for 5 to 8 year old children learning English as a second language, indicating that children and adults use common strategies and process linguistic data in fundamentally similar ways.

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Tipo: libro

Temas: sociolingüística

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The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish provides an up-to-date overview of the latest research examining sociolinguistic approaches to analyzing variation in Spanish.

Divided into three sections, the book includes the most current research conducted in Spanish variationist sociolinguistics. This comprehensive volume covers phonological, morphosyntactic, social, and lexical variation in Spanish. Each section is further divided into subsections focusing on specific areas of language variation, highlighting the most salient and current developments in each subfield of Hispanic sociolinguistics. As such, this Handbook delves further into the details of topics relating to variation and change in Spanish than previous publications, with a focus on the symbolic sociolinguistic value of specific phenomena in the...

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Tipo: libro

Temas: morfología

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The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology presents a state-of-the-art, detailed and exhaustive overview of all aspects of Spanish morphology, paying equal attention to the empirical complexities of the morphological system and the theoretical issues that they raise.

As such, this handbook is relevant both for those interested in the facts of Spanish morphology and those interested in general morphology that want to explore how the Spanish facts illuminate our understanding of human language and current theories of morphology.

This volume is also unique in its extent and coverage. Written by an international team of leading experts in the field, it contains 42 chapters divided into four sections, covering all synchronic and diachronic aspects of Spanish morphology, including inflection; derivation; compounding and...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: español como lengua de herencia

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Of the few studies that have investigated the linguistic development of heritage speakers (HSs) in the study abroad (SA) context, none have utilized on-line experiments, in spite of these tasks' clear methodological benefits. In this study, therefore, we test HSs' on-line sensitivity to lexically selected mood morphology in Spanish. Ten adult HSs completed a self-paced reading task at the beginning and end of a fifteen-week-long SA program in Spain. The task assessed both (a) whether HSs were sensitive to mood incongruencies (e.g., by slowing down after ungrammatical verbs) and (b) whether that (in)sensitivity was different with regular vs. irregular verbs. It was hypothesized that participants would be more...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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En el aprendizaje del español como lengua extranjera, la morfología juega un papel fundamental en la mejora de la memoria léxica. A medida que la sociedad evoluciona, el lenguaje también lo hace, y la creación de nuevas palabras sigue patrones y reglas específicas. Este proceso de innovación lingüística refleja los principios de la morfología en la formación de palabras. La morfología contribuye significativamente a cinco aspectos clave: la mejora en la retención de palabras, el aumento en la eficiencia del aprendizaje, la ampliación del vocabulario, la profundización en la comprensión del significado y el refuerzo del efecto de transferencia del conocimiento.

Aunque se reconoce que la morfología facilita la memorización de vocabulario, la falta de datos cuantificables ha dificultado la comprensión de su efectividad real. Por...

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Tipo: libro

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: análisis contrastivo

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Las formas no finitas se constituyen en un enigma que generan cierta dificultad en la enseñanza del español y el inglés como lenguas extranjeras y, sin dudas, representan un desafío para la traductología. Por eso, un estudio en profundidad puede significar un aporte para disciplinas como la didáctica de la gramática y de la traducción. Bajo un enfoque cognitivo funcional, se parte de premisas que permiten observar el lenguaje como una capacidad que forma parte de la cognición en general y que explora facultades cognitivas como la percepción, la conceptualización, la categorización y la memoria, entre otras, que, a su vez, ponen en funcionamiento una serie de mecanismos como la...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: español como lengua de herencia

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This eye tracking study examined the role of lexical frequency in the processing of non-local verbal number agreement by heritage speakers of Spanish. Few prior studies of heritage bilingualism have investigated the role of word frequency in the comprehension or production of morphosyntax, and none have employed a real-time measure of sentence processing, despite the well-known sensitivity of such methods to word frequency and the proposal of some scholars that such online methodologies could be particularly useful in research on heritage speakers. Fifty heritage speakers of Spanish read stimulus sentences containing non-local verbal number agreement that depended on a verb that was either high or low frequency,...

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