Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: creencias y actitudes de los profesores

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This study investigated the effectiveness of word-frequency and teacher judgments in determining students' vocabulary knowledge and compared the predictive powers of both approaches when estimating vocabulary knowledge. Twenty-nine second language (L2) Spanish teachers were asked to predict how likely their students would know words from a 216-word Yes/No test that measures knowledge of the first 3,000 words in Spanish. The accuracy of their responses was compared with the results of 1,075 L2 Spanish students who completed the same test. To examine if the results could generalize to other L2 settings, 394 L2 English students completed a 70-word Yes/No test that measures knowledge of the first 14,000 words in English, and 15 L2 English language instructors attempted to predict which words would or would not be recognized. Results...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: comprensión lectora

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Learning by reading is a substantial challenge, but with a few strategies under your belt, you can be much more successful in connecting the ideas as the author hoped you will.

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: profesorado

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This study focuses on understanding language teachers' lived experiences of their stressors and positive uplifts from a holistic perspective covering their professional lives in school, their personal lives beyond, and the connection between the two. The aim was to explore the nature of teachers' experiences of stress and how they spilled over from work into home domains. We also were keen to understand the dynamics of their experiences of stress and how their perception of daily stressors was related to their overall sense of wellbeing as well as their life and chronic stressors. The data were collected via a specially created app, which collected survey data and experience sampling method (ESM) data from language teachers across the globe. Teachers' wellbeing was investigated using the PERMA Profiler (Butler & Kern, 2016), their...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: inteligencia artificial

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Este artículo examina el potencial de ChatGPT para el aprendizaje de español como segunda lengua en los niveles A1-B1 en cuanto a su capacidad tanto de descifrar el input del alumnado de estos niveles como de generar respuestas que puedan comprender los aprendientes. Para ello, y tras un breve repaso de las potencialidades y desafíos de la integración de las herramientas de generación de textos basadas en la inteligencia artificial, se describe el análisis realizado con dos corpus de interacciones con ChatGPT -compilados a partir de prompts del alumnado y de ejercicios propios de los cursos en estos niveles- y se presenta una serie de conclusiones preliminares a la implementación de ChatGPT en clase, resultante del análisis de dichos corpus, y encaminadas a fomentar el autoaprendizaje mediante ChatGPT como agente conversacional.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: competencia intercultural

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El presente estudio de investigación recoge los datos y opiniones de profesionales dentro del campo del español como lengua de herencia en Alemania y de dos expertos sobre la existencia o falta de formación específica en la intersección existente entre la competencia comunicativa intercultural y la enseñanza del español como lengua de herencia. Primeramente, es necesario una contextualización del ELH en Alemania y unos conocimientos sobre diferentes modelos de competencia comunicativa intercultural. Seguidamente una primera fase de la investigación constituida por cuestionarios a profesionales del ELH en Alemania, una segunda fase de la investigación por entrevistas a profesionales del ELH en Alemania y se amplia la información con la entrevista a dos expertos: la Dra. Carmen Ramos Méndez-Sahlender y el Dr. Yeray González Plasencia,...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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Presentación interactiva sobre la repetición espaciada como método para memorizar. Se muestra su funcionamiento de una manera muy clara.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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This paper aims at understanding the extent to which languages are taught collaboratively in higher education (HE), which team teaching (TT) models have been implemented, and what lessons were learnt from the experiences. Following the Arksey and O-Malley framework [2005. "Scoping Studies: Towards a Methodological Framework." International Journal of Social Research Methodology 8 (1): 19-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/1364557032000119616], a scoping review was conducted to map TT practices in HE language classrooms around the world. The review uses narrative analysis to describe those...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: cultura

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Las artes visuales son consideradas uno de los recursos más importantes para la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera. Este artículo se desarrolla en dos partes. La primera está dedicada a averiguar en qué medida la pintura facilita el aprendizaje de la lengua española. La segunda muestra una propuesta didáctica a desarrollar en el aula mediante Duelo a garrotazos de Francisco de Goya. A través de la producción de este pintor, los estudiantes llegan a comprender el convulso siglo XIX español. Ello permite desarrollar y adquirir el vocabulario específico, junto al conocimiento del contexto cultural.artes visuales

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: materiales audiovisuales

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Repeated viewing of the same video is a common strategy among autonomous language learners as well as a much used pedagogical strategy among foreign language (FL) teachers. Learners may watch the same video more than once, to increase global comprehension of the target language or to focus their attention on linguistic aspects, such as new vocabulary or pronunciation. This study sought to examine to what extent repetition is more efficient for vocabulary learning if the second viewing follows the first immediately, or a week later. Participants were upper intermediate-level college learners who were distributed into three groups, one watched a TV series episode twice in the same session, one also watched the same episode twice but one week apart, and the last (control) group did not watch the video. Tests of word meaning recognition...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: lingüística cognitiva

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This article lies within the field of applied cognitive linguistics (ACL) and presents empirical work that addresses overlooked effects of assessment typology in second language (L2) learning. It examines whether pairing a cognitive instructional approach with matching assessment design results in greater learning outcomes over the more pervasive notional-functional approaches. The last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of empirical research measuring the effectiveness of ACL-based teaching approaches, yet studies have only been partly fruitful in eliciting data that truly favors ACL. We argue that this is largely due to assessment design, which typically measures performance via correct vs. incorrect tasks. To overcome this caveat, two studies addressing the complex Spanish psych-verb construction (e.g. gustar "to like")...

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