Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: multimodalidad

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Digital multimodal composing (DMC) has attracted language instructors’ and researchers’ increasing attention during recent years. Previous studies mainly investigated the students’ DMC processes and perceptions, but DMC products are underexamined, and in particular, scarce is research comparing collaborative DMC products and individual DMC products. This article reports an empirical study conducted with 185 EFL college students in an English for specific purposes (ESP) course in Vietnam, in which they completed two infographic tasks using Visme, one collaboratively and the other individually. The DMC products were graded according to a rubric assessing the aspects of content/organization, multimedia/visual effects, and language use; the accuracy of the students’ infographics was also evaluated. The results of variance (MANOVA) test...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: comprensión oral

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Existing research has established captions as effective second-language (L2) or foreign language (FL) listening comprehension aids. However, due to the transient nature of captions, not all learners are capable of attending to captions in all cases. Previous work posited that to leverage the impact of technologies in learning and instruction, a better understanding of the interplay between technology and cognition is warranted. In this vein, the current study set out to investigate the effects of four different caption modes (full vs. partial vs. real-time vs. control) on the listening comprehension of 95 high-intermediate Taiwanese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) with different caption reliance (i.e. more-caption-reliant vs. less-caption-reliant). The results showed no significant difference between the participants’...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: literatura

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Este artículo, desde un punto de vista comparatista, presenta el psicoanálisis como herramienta común a diferentes semióticas de tal manera que desde esta perspectiva podemos llegar a profundizar en los comentarios y análisis de las obras que se estudian dentro de una clase de cultura, literatura o arte en el ámbito de la E/LE.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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Writing has long been seen as a challenging skill that language learners need to learn. In addition, by guaranteeing participant engagement in significant communication processes, visual methods such as photovoice can be utilized in language instruction to enhance language learning. Thus, the present study attempted to examine the effects of utilizing Photovoice as an innovative instructional method on Iranian intermediate English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ writing skills. The study also examined the participants’ attitudes toward the implementation of photovoice in language learning. The research followed a mixed-methods design to collect and process the data. Sixty female intermediate learners from a private English language institute in Isfahan, Iran, were selected through convenience sampling and then randomly assigned...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: multimodalidad

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In response to the growing prevalence of online second language learning and the burgeoning field of international Chinese language education, this study examines the impact of multimodal inputs (MMI) on vocabulary acquisition within online environments among learners of Chinese as a second language (CSL). A teaching intervention was conducted with 90 Mongolian CSL learners, who were grouped into audiovisual, audio, and visual groups. The findings indicate that the audiovisual condition significantly improved vocabulary retention compared to the single-modality conditions in a delayed post-test. Nevertheless, the efficacy of the MMI treatment was observed to vary with learners’ proficiency levels, with beginner-level CSL learners deriving greater benefit from MMI than intermediate-level learners. Furthermore, participants expressed...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: competencia intercultural

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This article addresses visual literacy as a crucial competence for fostering intercultural literacy and intercultural dialogue. Visual literacy has been defined as a combination of skills needed to interpret the meaning of images, latent reasons behind their making and their impact on audiences. Individuals need to develop such skills to critically read the ‘vocabulary’ (content) and ‘grammar’ (composition) of images they are constantly flooded with to fully understand and appreciate the underlying meaning of visual representations of their own culture and other cultures, as well as the people belonging to different cultural groups. The Council of Europe’s Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters through Visual Media (AIEVM) has been designed to promote interculturality through the reflection on the other, as portrayed in visuals. By...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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Although a number of studies investigated the effects of different gloss types on L2 vocabulary learning, the interaction between the language and modality of glosses remains underexplored. The present study thus examined the effects of the modality and language of glossing on L2 vocabulary learning. To this end, the study employed a within-subjects design to test the impacts of four combinations of L1 versus L2 and audio-based versus text-based glosses on L2 lexical development. The participants were 49 EFL learners who read two texts, each including 28 unfamiliar words that were the same in both texts over two sessions. They were instructed to read the texts with their smartphones and touch the target words, which were underlined to see or hear the glosses, depending on the allocation of the target words to each treatment condition...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: experiencia práctica

Temas: expresión escrita

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El relato digital ofrece interesantes posibilidades en cuanto a la escritura colaborativa multimodal y a la autoría colectiva en tareas de expresión escrita, las cuales fueron exploradas en un curso online de formación para profesores de español de la red pública brasileña ofrecido a través de un convenio de cooperación internacional suscrito por dos grupos de investigación de España y Brasil. El trabajo final de los profesores que realizaron el curso consistió en la puesta en práctica de un proyecto de creación de un relato digital con sus respectivos alumnos de español. Durante las tres semanas de duración del proyecto se llevaron a cabo diferentes tareas que implicaban la escritura colaborativa...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: análisis de materiales y manuales

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Este artículo analiza las representaciones culturales y de género en un manual de ELE de amplia difusión, mediante un enfoque cualitativo multimodal (texto–imagen–audio). Se operacionaliza un codebook original que integra competencia intercultural, coherencia intermodal y coherencia intermodal, con pista de auditoría y casos frontera. Los resultados muestran desajustes sistemáticos entre modos y asimetrías de agencia por género. La contribución de frontera radica en traducir este diagnóstico en principios didácticos verificables (equilibrio cultural, coherencia multimodal, redistribución de roles y lenguaje inclusivo claro), sin actividades cerradas y con criterios de evaluación formativa. Es un...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: adquisición de segundas lenguas

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This article introduces the novel mixed language input paradigm (MiLIP), which utilizes language mixing as a pedagogical tool for language learning, and describes the methodology to conduct a longitudinal study using this paradigm. We illustrate the paradigm using the example of intrasententially mixed Greek (target language) with English (familiar language), combined with multimodal input (audio, images, videos, subtitles) over three learning phases. Participants are presented with increasingly complex Greek input as the phases progress: nouns in Phase 1, noun phrases (NPs) in Phase 2, and NPs + verbs in Phase 3. Learning in the proposed paradigm is evaluated through picture selection and...

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