Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: tecnología educativa

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Las TIC (Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación) constituyen hoy día un ingrediente omnipresente, pero al mismo tiempo muy diverso, en el aula de lenguas porque su papel depende de las destrezas y/o contenidos que se trabajen, del profesor responsable y del tipo de curso (on u off line, por ejemplo) y de sus destinatarios. En este artículo examinaremos qué papel puede desempeñar la introducción asistida de ciertas TIC en el aprendizaje de la expresión escrita de una lengua extranjera. Al recorrer las diez fases que recomendamos para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de la expresión escrita, comprobaremos en cuáles de estas fases qué tipos de TIC pueden aumentar la efectividad del aprendizaje de idiomas y en particular la correcta identificación de los patrones léxico-gramaticales, así como impulsar ciertas destrezas y actitudes de...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: manuales

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The importance of textbooks in the shaping of world-language instruction in the US is undeniable: for better or for worse, published materials tend to define the content, pace, and pedagogical orientation of language courses at all levels in this country. As educators continue to confront the challenge of selecting and/or adapting published materials for their language courses (particularly for Spanish, which represents 69% of the total language textbook market at the high school level, and 52% at the college level), the need for information on the origin and evolution of our teaching materials becomes apparent. Following a diachronic perspective, this article traces the historical evolution of Spanish textbooks in the US, and examines the current state of affairs of language materials for learners K-16. In addition, this article...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: enseñanza de español en Estados Unidos

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This article chronicles the teaching and learning of Spanish in the United States (US) preschool through college (preK-16) from the 1800s to the present day and beyond. National and local policies, initiatives, and practices are reviewed as well as program and curricular models and methodologies at each educational level: pre-kindergarten through elementary school; junior high, middle, and high school; college and university. From the 1800s until the 1980s, teaching and learning Spanish was steeped in tradition, incorporating predominantly grammar translation and reading great works of literature. Some exceptions to instruction included the Berlitz method and the audiolingual methods. An enrollment crisis in the 1970s propelled change in instructional delivery. These innovations were guided by research that then informed the creation...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de la gramática

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Este trabajo se centra en la enseñanza de las preposiciones en el aula de español como lengua extranjera (ELE) desde la óptica de la lingüística cognitiva. Primeramente se discute el estado de la cuestión de la instrucción de preposiciones en el campo de ELE y tras considerar su relativo éxito en cuanto a su aprendizaje y la fosilización de sus usos, se presenta el paradigma cognitivo como opción para su enseñanza. De esta manera, se introducen principios teóricos básicos y relevantes, tales como los ?prototipos? como significados operativos centrales para cada preposición, el ?pensamiento metafórico? como base para la construcción de comunicación, la ?perspectiva espacial? con el ?trayector?, el ?perfil? y el ?punto de referencia? para expresar las relaciones de espacio y movimiento entre conceptos al representar lingüísticamente una...

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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: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: cognición y procesamiento

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Both educators and researchers alike are usually confounded by the differential performances of L2 learners who are exposed to the same L2 information in the classroom setting. Current second language acquisition (SLA) research employing concurrent data elicitation procedures (e.g., think-aloud protocols to gather online data on learners? cognitive processes employed during their interaction with the L2 data) are revealing that one potential explanation may lie in how deeply L2 learners process the L2 information, usually referred to as depth of processing. Depth of processing is defined as the relative amount of cognitive effort, level of analysis, elaboration of intake together with the usage of prior knowledge, hypothesis testing and rule formation employed in encoding and decoding some grammatical or lexical item in the input (...

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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: pronunciación

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Tras años de desatención en la metodología y en las aulas, la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de la pronunciación están viviendo un retorno a las aulas acompañados de un creciente interés en la investigación (Gil Fernández 2007, 2012). En Australia, en comparación con otras lenguas ?especialmente las asiáticas? de mayor tradición en la educación, el español no ha gozado de una gran presencia y tampoco ha recibido la atención necesaria en la investigación pedagógica, incluidas las opiniones y necesidades de los docentes. En este artículo ofrecemos un estudio de las creencias y las actitudes de profesores australianos de español como lengua extranjera (ELE) en relación con la enseñanza de la pronunciación. Los datos proceden de profesores de varios niveles educativos y de diferentes estados o territorios australianos. En el estudio mostramos...

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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: estudio empírico

Temas: español para fines específicos

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Existing medical Spanish curricula have improved language skills, but are incompatible with resident-physician schedules, and do not always integrate cultural education. A 2009 survey at our institution revealed that residents saw Spanish-speaking patients regularly and wanted a medical Spanish curriculum designed for them. Our objective was to improve medical Spanish and cultural competency among resident physicians at our institution. Kramsch's (1998) principle of combining language and cultural instruction, Gardner's (1983) theory of multiple intelligences, and the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages 5Cs provided a framework for the self-directed curriculum, which consisted of nine-month long modules with online and in-person grammar, vocabulary, listening comprehension and conversation practice. We conducted pre...

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