Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: creencias y actitudes de los profesores

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This article aims to explore second language (L2) teachers’ attitudes to working with multilingual refugee learners in the context of a sudden shift towards an increasingly multilingual environment caused by the influx of Ukrainian refugee children in 2022 to Polish schools. The teachers have been prepared to teach predominantly monolingual classes and have not obtained any training to meet the needs of migrant and multilingual learners; thus, they had to rely on their personal resources facing this suddenly increasingly multilingual and multicultural environment. A cross-sectional survey study was designed to identify how attitudes of teachers of English and Polish as a foreign language (n = 70) developed towards teaching multilingual refugee learners and to what extent these correlated with teacher Openness to Experience,...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: literatura

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El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo mostrar una vía para la lectura de El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha en el aula de E/LE. La propuesta se realizará a través de una selección de recursos y actividades sobre el clásico de Cervantes. Las preguntas desde las cuales se parte para el planteamiento son: ¿Qué es un clásico? ¿Por qué leer a Cervantes en la clase de E/LE? ¿Cómo leerlo? ¿Qué ventajas tiene El Quijote en el siglo XXI para quienes tienen el español como segunda lengua?

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enfoque por tareas

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This study is aimed to identify the effects of task complexity on first language (L1) use and the functions it may serve when two groups of learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) work on collaborative tasks. Twenty-four pairs of Chinese EFL learners from two universities were assigned to a lower-proficiency and a higher-proficiency group, each with twelve pairs. Each group completed two collaborative tasks of different cognitive complexity. The results showed that task complexity had an appreciable impact on the use of L1 and its functions. It is also found that the impact of task complexity was dependent on learners’ English proficiency. Specifically, the higher-proficiency group employed more L1 to perform complex tasks than they did in the simple versions of the tasks. These learners also devoted significantly more L1...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: lingüística cognitiva

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La Gramática Cognitiva es una de las propuestas metodológicas para la enseñanza de ELE que más presencia tiene en las aulas en la actualidad. Los manuales se hacen eco de ello y en las últimas décadas son más los materiales que se elaboran adoptando este enfoque para la enseñanza de las estructuras gramaticales. Con este trabajo se pretende analizar la manera en la que estos manuales aplican los principios metodológicos de la GC y cómo pueden los docentes identificar cuáles lo hacen y en qué grado. Para ello, se propone una ficha de análisis que pretende detectar los puntos clave de la GC en los manuales.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: perífrasis verbales

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Esta actividad lúdico-práctica sirve para desarrollar el contenido gramatical ir a + infinitivo con el telón de fondo de las elecciones. Aprovechando el contexto de las elecciones, nos planteamos cómo podríamos enseñar nuestro sistema electoral pero, para evitar que la política empañara nuestra clase, decidimos dividir a los alumnos en grupos y que cada uno desarrollara propuestas posibles o imposibles para cambiar el mundo. Después de exponer las «promesas» de cada «partido», los alumnos votaban con su «DNI español», y el grupo ganador daba un mitin. Nuestro objetivo es compartir esta actividad que, si bien en el planteamiento era un ejercicio como otro cualquiera, finalmente resultó una...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión oral

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The present study examines the effects of pre-task explicit instruction on second language (L2) oral self-repair behaviour while controlling for the effects of working memory. The participants were 121 Iranian learners of English at incipient levels of language proficiency. Their working memory was measured using an operation span task and then they were randomly assigned to a control and an experimental group. Both groups performed a picture story-retelling task that was preceded by five minutes of planning time. During the planning time, the experimental group also received a grammar handout that explained English relative clauses. The instances of self-repairs were identified through stimulated recall interviews that immediately followed performance on the oral task. They were then classified into categories of global form repairs...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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To contribute to the discourse on ways to revitalize world language education, this study explored, through the lens of program evaluation, the effect of academic and nonacademic relationships on language majors’ choice of their major, their other motivations, and the nature of career-related knowledge and experiences they value. To this end, the study used a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, including a web-based survey ( N = 80) and group interviews (n = 12). Participants were undergraduate students enrolled in a modern language program and joint-degree programs in language + business and language + health. Analysis revealed statistically significant differences among the three groups of students in the influence of college professors on their major choice, the reasons for choosing their major, and the types of desired...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: pretérito perfecto simple

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Esta experiencia práctica consiste en hacer que los alumnos inventen un relato en pasado a partir de la audición de una serie de sonidos y ruidos del entorno cotidiano (por ejemplo, una tormenta, un coche que arranca y se va, unos pasos que se acercan, el batir de un huevo, etc.). Los alumnos, basándose en los sonidos escuchados, tendrán que imaginar cuáles fueron los hechos que ocurrieron, así como la atmósfera y las circunstancias que los envolvieron. Para conseguir una mayor variedad de historias, el orden de escucha de los sonidos será totalmente arbitrario, es decir, no determinará la secuenciación de la historia.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: reflexión docente

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In this article, we address collegiality among students and teachers and its potential for promoting meaningful experiences in teaching-learning processes. We analyse episodes drawn from the pedagogical practices of two of the authors of this text, who have taught English (Episode 1) and Portuguese (Episode 2). These episodes took place in two Brazilian public sector schools located in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Throughout our discussion, as Brazilian teacher-researchers, we align ourselves with studies on teaching-learning and language teacher education developed by the Exploratory Practice Group of Rio de Janeiro, with studies on autoethnography, as well as with the theoretical-analytical tools of narrative studies. As a result, we found that teaching proposals that encourage collaboration between students and teachers can promote...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación

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Knowing how to create a positive motivational climate that motivates college students to engage in second language (L2) courses can be a big challenge for some L2 college professors. We created an intervention that used teaching strategies consistent with the MUSIC Model of Motivation to redesign lecture-based reading and listening classes within an L2 English course. The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of the intervention on students’ perceptions of the motivational climate, motivation, and effort. Students were surveyed four times throughout the semester: before and after a reading class intervention, and before and after a listening class intervention. Participants included 31 first-year graduate students in a public university in eastern China. Paired t -test results showed that in the reading class, the...

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