Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación

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Despite extensive research in task-based language learning, the role of learners’ motivational dispositions in their task experience and performance has remained underexplored. To help bridge that gap, this study investigated the relationships between second language (L2) learners’ chronic regulatory focus and their oral task emotions and performance. One hundred and thirty-three high school students studying English as a foreign language in China completed a regulatory focus questionnaire, an English proficiency self-rating questionnaire, an oral opinion task, and a post-task questionnaire measuring their task anxiety and enjoyment. Multiple regression results showed that the learners’ chronic promotion focus positively predicted their task enjoyment, which, in turn, predicted their oral task performance. In addition, the...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: diferencias individuales

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Second language acquisition is a lengthy and complex process fraught with numerous obstacles and barriers. It requires learners to possess robust grit, adaptive mindsets, and active engagement to overcome the challenges encountered during the learning process. However, limited antecedent research has integrated the three factors into one framework and examined the configured joint effects on language achievement outcomes. Adopting a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), 431 tertiary-level university students were recruited to complete grit, engagement, and mindset questionnaires, and their language achievement was assessed through the grades they attained on the College English Test Band 4. The results from the direct path analysis and fsQCA analysis led to two major findings. First, perseverance of effort and behavioral...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: juegos

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El objeto de esta práctica es la utilización del popular juego de ordenador Los Sims, elemento lúdico y muy cercano a la realidad cotidiana de nuestros alumnos (estudiantes universitarios), para la práctica de los usos del subjuntivo. El juego permitirá a los estudiantes de español ejercitar los diferentes usos del subjuntivo mediante la verbalización de la realidad que ellos mismos construyan para sus personajes. Asimismo, la manipulación de los personajes y de sus acciones se convierte en un elemento motivador para el estudio de la gramática.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos

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Emotions in language learning are increasingly recognized as playing an important role in learner motivation and flourishing in the learning process. In consequence, much of the research published to date has focused on what happens when different emotions are experienced and the various states that these may lead to. However, studies that consider how language learners understand the importance of emotions in the context of their learning efforts as well as examine ways this understanding is experienced from the perspective of a language learner are scarce in the literature. To address this gap, the present study investigates how Japanese university language learners experienced a content and language integrated learning (CLIL) course specially designed to explore emotions in language learning, including emotional literacy,...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación

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Research on young learners’ motivation in second language (L2) acquisition has expanded considerably, yet pronunciation-specific motivation remains largely overlooked, particularly in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) contexts. At the same time, gender has frequently been claimed as a source of variation in L2 motivation and pronunciation attainment, although recent evidence from primary-school CLIL settings suggests that such differences may be far less pronounced than traditionally assumed. This study compares English pronunciation motivation across CLIL and non-CLIL programs in Spanish primary education learners and between boys and girls within each type of instruction. A total of 337 pupils in Grades 3 and 4 from five semiurban schools in a monolingual region of northern Spain (3 CLIL, 2 non-CLIL) completed a 38-...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: canciones

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El material de partida para el desarrollo de esta secuencia de actividades es una canción. Nuestra predilección por el uso de la música está relacionada con nuestra experiencia en el aprendizaje de idiomas. Creemos que la música resulta un material atractivo en sí mismo pues está asociado al ocio y, por ello, puede suscitar un interés adicional en el alumno. Además, al memorizar letras de canciones, o simplemente al escucharlas con atención, es posible asociar léxico y estructuras de una manera fácil y eficaz, a lo que se une un componente lúdico.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: diferencias individuales

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Ambiguity tolerance reflects learners’ abilities to accept unpredictable and unfamiliar contexts in language learning without frustration and discomfort. However, it has yet to be thoroughly explored when associated with engagement, motivation, and peer collaboration collaborative learning in course of English as a foreign language (EFL) learning. Relying on questionnaire survey data, this study adopts structural equation modeling techniques based on 1,200 Chinese high school students’ responses. The findings ascertain that engagement and volition significantly and positively predict ambiguity tolerance and learning effectiveness. Additionally, ambiguity tolerance predicts learning effectiveness. For peer collaborative learning, ambiguity tolerance and learning effectiveness are also critical predictors. They significantly and...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza en línea e híbrida

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This study examines how learners’ English proficiency and individual difference factors (international posture, willingness to communicate, motivation, social presence) change, and how a small community develops, through an English course designed using the Community of Inquiry framework. Conducted over eight sessions at a university in Japan, the study involved 26 students who provided complete data for analysis. The main activities included two in-class group presentations and one individual video presentation via Google Chat. Pre- and post-tests on speaking proficiency and surveys on individual differences were administered. Reflection sheets were also collected after each activity. A paired t -test was used for the former, and SCAT (Steps for Coding and Theorization) was employed for the latter, followed by coding. Results showed...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: español de los negocios

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La presente propuesta nace a partir de la implantación de la Ley Educativa italiana Alternanza Scuola-Lavoro, que obliga a los estudiantes de entre 15 y 19 años a realizar horas lectivas sobre el mundo de los negocios en una lengua extranjera. Para dar respuesta a esta demanda, se diseña un curso de Español con Fines Específicos (EFE) dirigido a adolescentes. Esta experiencia práctica pretende comprobar si los contenidos y los materiales (1) resultan útiles para los jóvenes en su aprendizaje, (2) son válidos para la consecución de sus objetivos y (3) logran aumentar su motivación. Para ello, tras el diseño del programa y su puesta en práctica, se elaboran unos cuestionarios de (auto)evaluación,...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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Self-regulated reading-to-write (R2W) can be portrayed as learners’ proactive learning of useful elements (e.g. content, rhetorical features, and conventions) from reading by using strategies, which is an effective mechanism connecting reading and writing, to improve their writing competence. In the present study, six major types of self-regulated R2W strategies, i.e. mining reading, writerly reading, cognitive strategies, purposive reading, recalling while writing, and peer revision reading that can contribute to writing competence were included in the proposed self-regulated R2W framework. Importantly, a self-regulated R2W scale was established to understand the impacts of four types of strategies. Participants were 458 primary students (9 to 13 years old, M = 10.12, SD = .62) in Hong Kong. They completed the self-regulated R2W...

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