Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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This article presents the results of a research project investigating how a student's ability to successfully learn vocabulary of four word classes (nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs) is affected by the activity through which it is practised. Two-hundred and ninety-two B1 SL students of Spanish were presented with one of three different activities requiring different involvement loads: (1) choosing the appropriate definition; (2) filling in gaps in sentences; and (3) writing sentences that include target words. The analysis shows that participants recalled and recognised more nouns and fewer adverbs—the only non-inflected word class. Additionally, sentence-writing is the activity through which learning new words is the easiest; and the least effective is the definition-choosing activity.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos

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This study investigated differences in students' foreign language anxiety and foreign language self-efficacy related to skill-specific foreign language tasks (i.e., speaking, listening, reading, and writing) across five levels of university foreign language coursework. A total of 206 participants in 12 university Spanish classrooms (ranging from Beginning Spanish I to Intermediate Spanish II) were surveyed for this study. The findings revealed that students who have higher levels of skill-specific foreign language anxieties provided corresponding lower ratings on skill-specific foreign language self-efficacies. Analyses also revealed that students' ratings for foreign language anxiety for each foreign language-learning skill were not significantly different across the five levels of coursework. However, students' ratings of foreign...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: vocabulario

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Con el objetivo de contribuir al desarrollo de las estrategias de búsqueda lexicográfica de los estudiantes de español LE/L2, se realizó un estudio empírico para averiguar el uso concreto de recursos lexicográficos por parte tanto de profesores como de estudiantes. Con tal finalidad se observaron y anotaron los recursos usados, el orden de consulta y también las estrategias aplicadas por ambos grupos al realizar una traducción técnica del alemán al español. El análisis de los datos revela que existen pocas diferencias entre las estrategias de ambos grupos de usuarios: si bien los estudiantes realizan un mayor número de consultas y usan más recursos, no necesitan más tiempo que los...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: prosodia

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Spanish and Finnish have a similar, syllable-timed, rhythm but very different stress and intonation patterns. Based on the "Frequency Code," whereby meanings of confidence and aggressiveness are associated with low pitch, and those of submission and smallness with high pitch, we establish a taxonomy of the functions and meanings of intonation with examples in Spanish and Finnish. These functions can be grammatical, attitudinal, pragmatic, and sociolinguistic. To teach intonation to Finnish L2 Spanish students of an advanced level, we raise their awareness through the comparison of the intonational patterns of the two languages and through inductive reasoning. Our proposal fosters a multimodal approach based on the imitation of native speech, on the visual representation of prosody through software like Praat, and on the use of...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: vocabulario

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This study examines the effects of word frequency and typographical enhancement (i.e., words in bold) on the learning of single words in Spanish L2 reading activities in a classroom setting. Learners read a text in which target words appearing in bold occurred one, five or 10 times. A parallel text was also provided in which those same words appeared un-bolded. Students were tested three times on both spelling and meaning of the target words: before, immediately after and two weeks after the reading activity. Results show that: (1) after five or 10 encounters, both spelling and meaning recognition skills increase; (2) words appearing in bold only lead to learning gains at a form recognition level immediately after the test is taken and do not contribute to the acquisition of meaning in the post-test; and (3) there is no interaction...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: pragmática

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La investigación sobre la competencia pragmática de los hablantes de herencia (HH) de español indica que, en su producción de los actos de habla, estos hablantes comparten algunas características con los aprendientes de español como segunda lengua. Sin embargo, todavía es necesario desarrollar una aproximación teórica para el análisis de dichos aspectos en común. Tomando como referencia un estudio sobre la realización de disculpas por HH de español que residen en Kansas, este artículo considera cómo se puede llegar a una mejor comprensión de las prácticas pragmáticas de los HH. Además, se propone una metodología para enseñar la pragmática fundamentada en la conciencia metapragmática de los estudiantes y que tiene en cuenta las prácticas discursivas de las diferentes comunidades en las que participan.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: pragmática

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The development of learners' pragmatic competence is considered one of several components of communicative competence and represents an important goal in Spanish language teaching and learning.

We offer a short literature review of theoretical and practical advances in pragmatics and Spanish language teaching,

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pragmática

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This study examines the development of speaker and listener assessments by second language (L2) learners of Spanish during a semester abroad in Spain. Assessments express the speaker's judgment, attitude, or affect towards what is said and perform the crucial functions of closing a topic and displaying shared understanding with an interlocutor. The results indicate that learners increased their use of listener assessments, as well as their use of specific structures and lexical items in speaker assessments. Participation in everyday conversation as well as explicit instruction represented ways that students could learn to make assessments. The article concludes with suggestions for teaching assessments in the Spanish L2 classroom.

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Este estudio analiza la adquisición de evaluaciones de hablante y oyente...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pragmática

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The present study investigates the way in which second-language Spanish learners conceptualize impolite behavior in intercultural interactions while abroad. The data were collected through a prompt that asks participants to write a narration of an impolite situation that occurred while they were studying abroad in Spain or Latin America. Fifty impoliteness events were analyzed for perceived offense type. The results show that learners perceived greater offense to their "quality face" and "social identity face." Sociocultural and linguistic competence characteristics with respect to the perceived offenses are then discussed. As a result of the analysis, this study concludes with pedagogical recommendations for the teaching of impoliteness in the classroom.

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El presente estudio investiga la manera en que...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pragmática

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Dado que la competencia pragmática se encuentra dentro del conjunto de competencias principales para el aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera, es fundamental que los aprendices de español sean conscientes de los elementos relacionados con la pragmática durante su aprendizaje y, como consecuencia, que los programas de formación de profesores se ocupen de la pragmática como parte de sus planes de estudio. Los dos objetivos principales de esta investigación son: (a) contribuir a completar el hueco existente en la formación de profesores en el área de pragmática y (b) despertar la conciencia de los docentes y los discentes en este mismo ámbito. Para llevar a cabo estos objetivos se analizan las guías docentes de la asignatura de pragmática en los másteres de formación de profesores de español como lengua extranjera y se recogen las...

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