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Temas: artículo redes sociales

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Este estudio exploratorio se centra en analizar las posibilidades de TikTok como herramienta de enseñanza y aprendizaje de LE/L2 en el contexto de un proyecto de telecolaboración entre estudiantes de español LE/L2 y profesores en formación de dos universidades en contextos geográficos distintos. El corpus está formado por cuarenta y dos tiktoks que se analizaron siguiendo cuatro criterios principales: la temática y contenido, la tipología, los componentes multimodales y otros recursos que intervienen su producción. Además, se analizaron las reflexiones de los participantes con el fin de averiguar sus percepciones en cuanto al uso de esta aplicación como espacio de enseñanza y aprendizaje de LE/L2. Los resultados del estudio constatan el potencial didáctico de esta aplicación tanto para los aprendientes de LE/L2 como para los docentes...

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Temas: artículo uso de la L1

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Research on pre-task planning to date has mainly focused on task performance. However, the effects of planning are contingent on what learners actually do during planning time. One important factor that may determine the quality and usefulness of planning is whether it is done in the first language (L1) or the second language (L2). This research addresses this issue by investigating the relative benefits of collaborative planning in the L1 and L2 in terms of ideas generated and transferred to an oral problem-solving task. Seventy-two Japanese university EFL learners were randomly assigned to one of two planning conditions: L1P (L1 planning, Japanese) and L2P (L2 planning, English). Dyads in each group were given 10 minutes to plan the content of a problem-solving task in the respective languages before individually performing the...

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Temas: artículo hablantes de herencia

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Este estudio examina el impacto de la frecuencia léxica en la concordancia de género en los hablantes de herencia y un grupo control de hablantes monolingües de español. La investigación previa ha constatado efectos de frecuencia cuando se accede al léxico nominal y se ha demostrado que este efecto es más prominente en hablantes bilingües. Este estudio amplía los resultados previos en la investigación psicolingüística sobre el acceso léxico en operaciones de concordancia de género que se ha realizado con monolingües de español examinando este efecto en dos poblaciones de hablantes de herencia del español que difieren en el nivel de dominio lingüístico de dicha lengua. El experimento 1 se trató de...

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Temas: artículo uso de la L1

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This study investigated whether second language (L2) classroom instruction that incorporates a principled approach into the use of the first language (L1) by students and instructors has an effect on beginning learners? development of L2 speaking and writing proficiency, compared to L2-only instruction, over the course of one semester. Participants were 54 students of Spanish enrolled in six sections of a university-level Elementary Spanish course. The six intact classes, exposed to the same task-based curriculum, were randomly assigned to two experimental groups (?L1 and +L1). For the ?L1 group, instruction and interaction were conducted exclusively in the L2, whereas instruction and interaction in the +L1 group included specific uses of the L1. A pretest?posttest design was used to measure change in speaking and writing proficiency...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo ansiedad

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Higher education has seen an increase in enrollment in online (OL) language courses. This study (n = 176) examined why students chose to enroll in OL Spanish courses and if foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) in OL classes affects overall oral proficiency. Sex differences and FLCA in online Spanish classes were also examined. Quantitative methods included an online survey and a third-party proficiency exam, Versant for Spanish Test. Findings suggest that students do not register for OL Spanish courses to avoid speaking; however, a majority of OL Spanish students appear to suffer from FLCA. These students reported being anxious about a variety of scenarios in their OL language courses including the tests, large class size, lack of understanding or remembering the course material, and making speaking mistakes. Analyses of oral...

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Temas: artículo ciencia cognitiva

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Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field of researchers from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and anthropology who seek to understand the mind. In this regular American Educator column, we consider findings from this field that are strong and clear enough to merit classroom application.

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The teacher presents a strong, coherent lesson in which a set of significant facts is clearly connected to a reasonable conclusion. But, at...

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Temas: artículo ciencia cognitiva

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Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field of researchers from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and anthropology who seek to understand the mind. In this regular American Educator column, we consider findings from this field that are strong and clear enough to merit classroom application.

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Very often, students will think they understand a body of material. Believing that they know it, they stop trying to learn more. But, come test time, it turns out they really don't know the material. Can cognitive science tell us anything about why students are commonly...

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Temas: artículo literacidad digital

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Fan practices involving translation open up opportunities to explore language learning practices within the fandom (Sauro, 2017). We examine how three fans capitalize on fan translation and language learning. We consider the cases of Selo (an English?Spanish translator of games), Nino (a Japanese?Catalan fansubber of anime, and Alro (an English?Spanish translator of fanfics). A corpus was built consisting of 297 minutes of interviews, 186 screenshots of language learning events from online sites, and 213 minutes of screencast videos of online activity. Drawing upon the conceptual framework of new literacy studies (Barton, 2007), we set four themes to present fans?...

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Temas: artículo evaluación

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Texto para profundizar y reflexionar sobre cómo evaluar las interacciones orales de los alumnos en clase. 

"La presente investigación, centrada en la evaluación interaccional, responde a tres preguntas esenciales en cuanto a la evaluación de la interacción oral en los cursos de español (A1-B2) de nivel colegial y universitario, a saber, para qué evaluar, qué evaluar y cómo evaluarlo. Se trata de un modelo de evaluación diferente, basado en una serie de herramientas que miden la conversación alumno-alumno en la clase de ELE."

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Temas: artículo lingüística cognitiva

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Given the immense potential of cognitive linguistics for second language teaching and the need to produce more robust empirical evidence of its effectiveness for a range of learners in real classrooms, the current study set out to investigate the effectiveness of a novel cognitive linguistics-inspired approach for teaching Spanish prepositions and aspect to novice learners (n = 30). Animated videos, which were created collaboratively with students to ensure their comprehensibility, presented Principled Polysemy Networks for the prepositions por and para and the concept of boundedness for aspect (preterite and imperfect). After presentation, practice, and feedback cycles, learners made significant gains on controlled production tasks and performed as well as more advanced learners recruited in prior studies, suggesting that the...

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