Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: evaluación

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Argumentative writing has long been recognized as challenging for English second language (L2) writers yet central to their academic success in educational settings. This article investigates the effectiveness of a writing instructional enrichment program informed by diagnoses from dynamic assessment (DA) in promoting L2 learners’ argumentative writing abilities. Grounded in Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory, DA introduces mediation into the assessment procedure, so that learner emerging abilities are diagnosed through observing their responsiveness to mediation when difficulties arise. In this study, prior to and following the instructional programs, a three-step, interactionist DA procedure was...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: juegos

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Promoting English as a foreign language (EFL) students’ reading comprehension, improving their reading motivation, and reducing their anxiety have always been the focus of EFL researchers. Educational board games have gradually received attention from educators. Various studies have found that board game-based teaching can improve students’ learning performance, motivation, and classroom engagement, and contribute to increasing discussion. However, there are few discussions on board games in the field of EFL, so further discussion is necessary to fill the research gap of board games in EFL reading comprehension. This study developed a dual-hierarchical scaffolding board game activity framework integrating game-based learning (GBL) and scaffolding strategies, and used card board games as teaching materials to promote EFL students’...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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Teacher scaffolding plays a crucial role in shaping the quality of classroom learning, yet little is known about the effective features of scaffolding in classes using content language integrated learning (CLIL), especially in terms of its effects on learners’ language and cognitive development. To address this issue, the study adopts a classroom discourse analysis approach to capture features of effective teacher scaffolding in a CLIL-framed intensive reading class. Results showed a perceived increase in learners’ language and cognitive abilities while also revealing a series of effective teacher scaffolding strategies in CLIL. These include frequent use of dialogic inquiry and incidental feedback in discourse extensions, and the variation of teacher scaffolding strategies in response to students’ learning needs. The findings will...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de la gramática

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Este artículo muestra una investigación sobre el papel que desempeña la interacción oral en la promoción de la reflexión metalingüística e interlingüística durante la implementación didáctica de una secuencia de gramática vinculada al proyecto Egramint. Esta secuencia aborda el estudio de la expresión de la obligación en español, catalán e inglés y utiliza principalmente el género discursivo de las recetas de cocina. Se implementó en un aula de 1.º de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria de un instituto de Cataluña. A partir del análisis de las intervenciones de alumnos y docente durante una sesión de clase, así como de una entrevista posterior realizada a la profesora, los...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: profesorado

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Foreign language teaching enjoyment (FLTE), a recently conceptualized notion of language teachers' positive emotion, has received a burgeoning interest in positive psychology studies and in the field of second language teaching research. However, due to the pure novelty of the concept of FLTE and the excessive reliance on quantitative research methods in capturing its correlates, the way FLTE can be influenced by contextual work-related factors remains far from being comprehensively understood. There are a multitude of challenges jeopardizing positive emotions in the workplace for teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL). Accordingly, being enlightened by an activity theory perspective, our qualitative study, aimed to unravel the factors that boost/diminish FLTE among 10 EFL teachers. The data were collected through narrative...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pragmática

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To enhance the visibility of pragmatics in second language (L2) teacher education, this study observed the development of a Spanish-speaking graduate teaching assistant (GTA) regarding his pragmatic knowledge and reflections on potential application during a 12-week pragmatics seminar at a US public university. The Spanish GTA taught the language as the teacher of record while participating in the training. From a sociocultural perspective, the training provided the GTA with exposure to and explanations of academic concepts across three modules: pragmatics, cross-cultural pragmatics, and instructional pragmatics. The participant also had the opportunity to engage in two languaging tasks, either privately (via written reflection reports) or inter-psychologically (through dialogic verbalized reflections). The results suggest that the...

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Tipo: libro

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: interacción

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This book provides an overview and analysis of the role that classroom interaction plays in instructed second language acquisition. The authors synthesise current state-of-the-art research on how classroom interaction benefits L2 learning through the lens of three theoretical perspectives: cognitive-interactionist (with a focus on how conversational interaction may promote L2 processing and learning), sociocultural (which assumes that cognitive advances are located within social interaction) and language socialisation (which examines how learners position themselves and are positioned in social interaction, and how they establish their membership in the target language community).

They go on to critically examine how findings from this research can be applied to classroom practice in diverse L2 settings; they then provide...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: creencias y actitudes de los profesores

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En este trabajo se estudian las creencias y actitudes hacia la evaluación de profesores en formación de español como lengua extranjera (ELE). El estudio que se presenta se enmarca en una asignatura de posgrado que busca ayudar a los profesores en formación a reconceptualizar su concepto de "evaluación" a través de un modelo formativo inspirado en la pedagogía sociocultural y en la confrontación de las creencias de los profesores con conceptos científicos. Para conocer las creencias y actitudes hacia la evaluación, se han considerado tareas de manipulación conceptual consciente para el desarrollo y se han estudiado los datos de una entrada de diario y las representaciones de los conceptos...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: andamiaje/scaffolding

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El artículo identifica y analiza en su contexto los diversos procedimientos interactivos de andamiaje que utiliza una profesora eslovaca en su clase de español como L2 para favorecer la participación del alumnado y crear espacios compartidos de co-construcción de conocimiento. Al tratarse de una clase de L2, algunos de esos procedimientos han de consolidar además la comprensión de los mensajes académicos en la lengua meta.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: telecolaboración e intercambios virtuales

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El artículo analiza una conversación telecolaborativa llevada a cabo en castellano por alumnos canadienses y mexicanos, desde una perspectiva sociocultural y con apoyo en una concepción socioconstructivista del aprendizaje. Considera las características más destacadas de la interacción entre ambos grupos y su posible impacto en el aprendizaje del castellano como L2, en el caso específico de los discentes de habla materna inglesa.

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