Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: variación y variedades del español

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Recent advances in sociolinguistics demonstrate the need to adopt a wider international perspective related to the way in which language variation should be reflected in the work of the institutions that participate more actively in the design of language ideologies in a 21st-century, globalized society. The most recent Pan-Hispanic publications by the Real Academia Española (RAE) and the Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (ASALE) reflect a will to recognize and promote all Spanish varieties on equal footing. This article analyzes how language variation is becoming an integral part of the Diccionario de la lengua española (DLE) in its successive print and online editions. In addition, beginning with the results of a questionnaire administered to United States' Spanish instructors, this article discusses how this new Pan-...

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Tipo: capítulo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: vocabulario

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Until very recently, vocabulary played a role in the production of language teaching materials that was very definitely a secondary one. Although inevitably present in any course book, vocabulary was generally subordinated to other elements that were considered more important to the process of learning a language. Thus, in the 1950s and 1960s, when grammar translation was the dominant approach to language teaching, the lexical content of courses was considered less important than the grammatical content of textbooks. To a large extent, the vocabulary taught was determined by the words that appeared in the works of classical authors whose texts were used for teaching purposes. Later, the structural or audiolingual methods, based on behaviourist theories subordinated the vocabulary to be taught to the linguistic structures that the...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: lingüística cognitiva

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In this article we argue that figurative language, specifically realized as metaphor, must become an essential aspect of any pedagogical program. The ability to understand and produce appropriate metaphors in a second language can no longer remain on the margins of linguistic proficiency; on the contrary, without such ability a speaker cannot effectively express him or herself or comprehend fully what a native interlocutor may be intending to communicate. That is, to genuinely achieve an advanced level of proficiency it is necessary that a speaker develop a metaphorical capacity in the second language. We begin the article with a discussion of the theory of metaphor proposed by Lakoff and his colleagues. We explain the principal concepts of the theory that we believe to be relevant to second-language pedagogy. We then present some...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: vocabulario

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Este artículo presenta un resumen actualizado de la teoría, la investigación y asuntos prácticos relacionados con el método IBI (input-based incremental) de enseñanza de vocabulario, que consiste en la presentación de palabras meta en el input y el desarrollo progresivo (y completo) de varios aspectos del conocimiento léxico. El artículo se divide en cinco partes principales. Después de la introducción, en la segunda parte se aborda la teoría e investigación y se enfatiza cómo el método IBI está vinculado al procesamiento del input léxico y a estudios sobre (a) diferentes maneras de presentar palabras meta como input y (b) diferentes tareas (tasks) que se pueden asignar al trabajar con vocabulario. Se ha demostrado, por ejemplo, que la presencia de diferentes hablantes, estilos de habla y velocidades de habla produce efectos positivos...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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There is general agreement that speed of lexical access is an essential component for successful communication and fluent language use. In vocabulary acquisition research the majority of studies have focused on the acquisition of the form and meaning of new words but research into the teaching conditions leading to the improvement of speed of lexical access is still scarce. This article reports results of two studies which explored the effectiveness of two vocabulary teaching approaches for the development of speed and automaticity of lexical access by learners of Spanish as a foreign language. Participants in Study 1 were exposed to the target vocabulary in reading passages (incidental approach), while participants in Study 2 were exposed to the target words in explicit vocabulary activities (explicit approach). A pre- and post-...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: vocabulario

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Recientemente, una gran parte de la discusión entre especialistas en lingüística aplicada se ha centrado en el potencial de la enseñanza del vocabulario basada en corpus (también conocida como "aprendizaje basado en datos" [ABD]; Boulton 2010a). La investigación en esta área se sirve de la lingüística aplicada de corpus y es relevante para ella, así como para la adquisición y pedagogía de una segunda lengua (L2). Aun cuando ciertamente hay potencial para que el ABD guíe la práctica de vocabulario en la L2, como explicamos en detalle en este artículo, los estudios empíricos del ABD presentan limitaciones tanto teóricas como metodológicas. A pesar de estas limitaciones, vemos potencial en el ABD para orientar la pedagogía y contribuir a la teoría de adquisición de la L2. Por estas razones, este artículo también incluye una discusión de...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: corpus

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This article presents a state-of-the-art discussion of second language (L2) Spanish corpus-based research on lexical competence. While L2 Spanish learner corpus research (LCR) is still in its infancy, we will review the major findings of relevant studies on the production of several lexical aspects: copula choice with ser/estar; overt/null pronoun distribution; collocations and lexico-syntactic verbal competence. Due to the highly contextualised nature of learner corpus data, many of these studies show that learners do not always behave differently from natives in terms of frequency of use, though they may differ in terms of discursive and pragmatic uses. The article ends with some theoretical and methodological caveats about L2 Spanish learner corpus research. An argument is made for the need to conduct L2 corpus-based research which...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pragmática

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This article examines vague lexical features in unplanned, naturally occurring spoken discourse among speakers of Peninsular Spanish. It focuses on vague multi-word expressions that are part of a larger category of General Extenders (GEs, Overstreet Citation1999). Drawing on a subset of data from the Corpus Oral de Referencia del Español Contemporáneo (COREC), the article describes GEs in terms of form and frequency, and illustrates the use of the three most frequent GEs vis-à-vis discursive and pragmatic functions in spoken discourse. Based on GEs' many and pivotal interactional functions as well as their frequency in attested interactions, this article proposes that language learners...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: fraseología

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A growing body of evidence suggests that second or foreign language learners stand a lot to gain from mastering a variety of multiword units, such as idiomatic expressions and collocations. Although most of the research on this formulaic dimension of language and its relevance for language learners has so far dealt with English, there are solid grounds for believing that formulaicity is part and parcel of natural languages in general, and that pedagogues should therefore give due attention to multiword units also in other target languages than English, such as Spanish. Contemporary textbooks for language learning have started to include a focus on lexical phrases generally and on collocations in particular, albeit mostly through decontextualized exercises where learners are required in one way or another to match words that form...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: tecnología educativa

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En este artículo se mostrará qué pueden aportar las tecnologías a la enseñanza del léxico en el marco de la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera (ELE). Se atenderá a la semántica, la morfología, la lexicografía, la terminología, la normativa, las combinaciones fijadas, etc., y en cada uno de los casos se considerarán las posibles aportaciones de los recursos de libre acceso que actualmente se encuentran en la red: diccionarios, materiales didácticos, interfaces de consulta en línea de corpus de nativos, tecnologías lingüísticas, etc. El objetivo de este artículo es doble: por una parte, presentar una revisión de los trabajos desarrollados en torno al uso de las tecnologías para la enseñanza del léxico y, así, sistematizar el camino recorrido y las vías por explorar; por otra, ofrecer unas pautas prácticas que orienten a...

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