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Bibliografía

El presente trabajo aborda el uso y significado del «artículo definido» (el/la/los/las), el «artículo indefinido» (un/a/os/as) y el llamado «nombre escueto» en los fenómenos de determinación y cuantificación nominal. Se trata de un tema ampliamente abordado desde casi todas las corrientes lingüísticas (estructuralistas, funcionalistas, generativistas, descriptivas, cognitivistas, etc.); pero, en el ámbito de ELE, constituye uno de los aspectos más problemáticos y menos atendidos. El principal objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer un modelo teórico que contribuya a facilitar la enseñanza y adquisición de las citadas formas en ELE a través de un planteamiento cognitivo basado en conceptualizaciones universales; pero, para ello, conviene revisar las aportaciones que se han hecho al respecto desde las distintas corrientes lingüísticas. El trabajo se divide en dos partes. En la Parte I se presenta una visión detallada del tratamiento que reciben el nombre y las expresiones nominales introducidas por los artículos en las gramáticas del español, así como las diversas cuestiones problemáticas que suscita; y, en la Parte II, se revisan los planteamientos presentados desde la perspectiva que ofrece la Lingüística Cognitiva (y, muy especialmente, la Gramática Cognitiva) con el fin de demostrar la necesidad de replantear algunos aspectos y ofrecer, finalmente, un modelo teórico operativo en el que se distinguen tres artículos (el «definido», el «indefinido» y Ø), cada uno de los cuales supone una determinada manera de conceptualizar la referencia a una cantidad delimitada.

El mandato en español: El Imperativo. El Futuro y otras formas.

Omar M. Fathy Kamal (2021)

Este estudio pretende reflejar las formas en las que se cumple el mandato como función comunicativa en otros tiempos además del modo imperativo. Esto surge a raíz de presentarse una discusión en clase sobre los valores de otros tiempos con matices de mandato. Hemos visto oportuno llevar este estudio a cabo para aclarar las posibles dudas que puedan surgir en este ámbito. No queda claro el uso exclusivo del modo imperativo para la función de mandato, o si existen otras formas en la lengua española fuera de este modo que puedan presentar la misma carga semántica. Las confusiones que presentan las formas del futuro de indicativo con valor de imperativo han llevado a plantear este estudio. Por ello este estudio va dirigido a aquellos profesores en el ámbito de ELE.

El profesor de lenguas online. Especialización y diversificación para un nuevo entorno laboral

Ana Campano Madrid (2021)

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Actualmente, apenas hay publicaciones académicas que se centren en las habilidades específicas del profesor de lenguas online. En estas publicaciones tampoco se habla de su carácter emprendedor, ni de los distintos roles que adopta. Este estudio analiza, pues, la actividad del profesor de lenguas online –como docente y como emprendedor-, al tiempo que se abre una nueva perspectiva en la investigación sobre la enseñanza de lenguas online: la propia relación entre docencia y emprendimiento. El resultado final ha sido la elaboración de una guía práctica, que puede servir como apoyo al profesor de ELE que desea iniciarse para ejercer de manera online.

Fonética para profesores de español: de la teoría a la práctica

Juana Gil Fernández (2017)

La finalidad fundamental de esta obra es dotar al profesor de español como lengua extranjera de los necesarios conocimientos teóricos acerca de la fonética del castellano y de los recursos metodológicos disponibles para afrontar la tarea de enseñar su pronunciación. Pero, además, este es un libro dedicado a indagar, desde dicha perspectiva teórica y aplicada, en los aspectos básicos que conforman, y en gran medida caracterizan, el perfil sonoro del castellano.

La obra está articulada en siete capítulos que abarcan tanto el nivel del análisis fónico suprasegmental como el segmental. Cada capítulo concluye con una serie de ejercicios –cuyas soluciones se ofrecen al final del volumen- y con un conjunto de propuestas de actividades y de temas de reflexión destinados a profundizar en el tema en cuestión. Al final de la obra se incluye, asimismo, un glosario general.

El público ‘natural’ al que va destinado este trabajo es el constituido por profesores de español como lengua extranjera, futuros o en ejercicio, y por estudiantes de los cursos intermedios de filología hispánica. De cualquier modo, pensando también en los posibles lectores profanos en fonética que se acercan por primera vez a la materia, los conceptos fónicos fundamentales se aclaran en nota y en el glosario final.

Microaggressions and intercultural competence in the Spanish classroom

Marcela van Olphen, Silvia M. Peart (2022)

En Second Language Research & Practice vol. 3-1

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Microaggressions are subtle offensive mechanisms that can be intentional or unintentional (Pierce, 1970). For the past 50 years, researchers have documented their damaging effects on peoples’ mental and physical health. In this report, we focus on microaggressions in the Spanish classroom and with Latino/Latinx/Hispanic students, including their damaging effects within the context of changing demographics in the United States, how they impact our language classrooms, and how they can be mitigated through language curricula that promote intercultural citizenship. Also, we share strategies and suggestions to counter microaggressions in the language classroom, grounded in the assumption that to support socially just learning environments, educators must create a healthy atmosphere where all students feel safe, respected, and validated, and are held to high academic and civic standards. We believe that language teachers are uniquely positioned to create learning environments that model intercultural perspectives and foster the necessary openness to analyze and understand different perspectives as students advance their intercultural competence.

Toward inclusive and relevant second language education for Black students

Germán Zárate-Sández (2021)

En Second Language Research & Practice vol. 2-1

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In this report, I describe the research and curricular changes I am implementing to deal with issues of inequity encountered by Black students in the Spanish program I direct at Western Michigan University. In the first stage, a comprehensive analysis of student demographics, enrollment, and academic performance over six years revealed that Black and African American students begin Spanish education at high rates but are less likely to advance to courses beyond second-year Spanish and more likely to obtain lower final grades than other groups. These findings are consistent with literature showing similar patterns of participation and achievement among Black students in language learning across secondary and higher education. Following methodologies used in previous studies, the second phase of the project consists of a comprehensive needs analysis composed of surveys, interviews, and class observations aimed at better understanding Black students’ experiences and needs in my department’s Spanish program. Based on results from the needs analysis, the last part of the project will educate personnel in the program on issues of equity and diversity and will implement changes in the curriculum to make our Spanish courses more relevant for Black students.

Investigating the potential of changing the smartphone system language to L2 for facilitating vocabulary learning and motivation

Shelly Xueting Ye, Jia Shi (2023)

En Language Teaching Research

Few mobile-assisted vocabulary learning approaches fully correspond to the authenticity principle of the situated learning theory (SLT). A novel practice of changing the smartphone system language to second language (L2), which intends to better implement SLT in a real smartphone context, is the focus of this study. To explore the potential of using this under-researched approach to facilitate L2 vocabulary learning, a mixed-method design was adopted to investigate its impact on vocabulary acquisition, global language learning motivation, and vocabulary learning motivation. Participants’ pre- and post-test scores on the vocabulary knowledge test and motivation questionnaires were compared between the experimental and control groups. Interviews were also conducted to understand learners’ perceptions of this novel approach. Both quantitative and qualitative results indicated that the approach of changing smartphone system language to L2 was effective in increasing learners’ vocabulary knowledge gains and improving their global and vocabulary learning motivation. These findings contribute to the literature on L2 vocabulary learning and provide significant pedagogical implications.

La Inteligencia Artificial y la enseñanza de lenguas: una aproximación al tema

José Carlos Escobar Hernández (2021)

En Decires 21.25

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El presente trabajo aborda el tema de la Inteligencia Artificial como una aproximación a un asunto del que ya se está ocupando la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras. Se trata de un tema que es cada vez más importante al ser el efecto del desarrollo que se ha dado en el campo de la cibernética, de la computación y de la comunicación, que produce aplicaciones (apps) que facilitan la vida y ahorran esfuerzo, lo que, al mismo tiempo, lleva a nuevas formas de actuar, de enseñar y de aprender. El desarrollo tecnológico ha estado siempre en la vida de los maestros de lenguas y lo que ocurre en la actualidad no es la excepción. Por ello, surge la necesidad de atender este desarrollo en el campo de la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera, algo de lo cual ya se ocupan diversas instituciones. Se propone aquí la necesidad de desarrollar herramientas que apoyen a los alumnos en su proceso de aprendizaje y de adquisición del idioma español, como puede ser el caso de las fuentes de consulta actuales como el diccionario Linguee.

Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Practice Makes Perfect—But Only If You Practice beyond the Point of Perfection

Daniel T. Willingham (2005)

En American Educator vol. 28 - 1

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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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It is difficult to overstate the value of practice. For a new skill to become automatic or for new knowledge to become long-lasting, sustained practice, beyond the point of mastery, is necessary. This column summarizes why practice is so important and reviews the different effects of intense short-term practice versus sustained, long-term practice.

Ask the Cognitive Scientist: The Privileged Status of Story

Daniel T. Willingham (2004)

En American Educator vol. 28 - 2

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I have read that the mind treats stories differently than other types of information. It seems obvious that people like listening to stories, but it's not obvious how to use that in the classroom. Is it really true that stories are somehow "special" and, if so, how can teachers capitalize on that fact?

Research from the last 30 years shows that stories are indeed special. Stories are easy to comprehend and easy to remember, and that's true not just because people pay close attention to stories; there is something inherent in the story format that makes them easy to understand and remember. Teachers can consider using the basic elements of story structure to organize lessons and introduce complicated material, even if they don't plan to tell a story in class.

Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Why Students Think They Understand—When They Don't

Daniel T. Willingham (2003)

En American Educator vol. 27 - 4

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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 mistaken about what they know and don't know? Are there any strategies teachers can use to help students better estimate what they know?

Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Students Remember...What They Think About

Daniel T. Willingham (2003)

En American Educator vol. 27 - 2

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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 test time, the students show no understanding of the connections. Some students parrot back the conclusion, but no facts. Others spit back memorized facts, but don't see how they fit together. Though the lesson wasn't taught in a rote way, it seems like rote knowledge is what the students took in. Why do well-integrated, coherent lessons often come back to us in a less meaningful, fragmented form? Can cognitive science help explain why this result is so common—and offer ideas about how to avoid it?

Heritage language learners’ written texts across pair types and interaction mode

Julio Torres (2023)

En Language Teaching Research 27 - 1

Task-based research has investigated the learning opportunities (e.g. language related episodes) that emerge during heritage and second language learner interactions during writing tasks. However, to date, it is unknown how these peer interactions involving heritage language learners contribute to written texts. Further, given the rise of social technologies in educational settings, a need exists to examine how interactions in digital platforms affect the production of written texts. To address these issues, 13 heritage-second language learner and 16 heritage–heritage learner pairs enrolled in advanced Spanish content courses completed two distinct versions of writing tasks. Participants were instructed that they were hired as business consultants for clothing and cellphone companies in Spain. While each participant wrote her or his own version, the pairs had to interact to compose formal business letters in Spanish to the CEO of each company justifying the hiring (Task A) or laying off (Task B) of employees. The main results first revealed that heritage–heritage pairs produced more syntactically complex business letters, as evidenced by a greater ratio of syntactic subordination along with a minor trend of greater morphosyntactic accuracy. Second, synchronous computer-mediated communication interactions led to a higher production of syntactic coordination, especially for the heritage-second language pairs. Findings are discussed in light of the interplay between learner factors and task environment.

Preliminary evidence that applied cognitive linguistics is effective for novice learners regardless of their individual differences

Elizabeth Maria Kissling, Taylor Arnold (2022)

En Language Teaching Research

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 cognitive linguistics approach was effective for these novices. The study found no statistically significant correlations between learning outcomes and individual difference measures of executive function, working memory, motivation, or learning style, which was cautiously interpreted as suggesting that the applied cognitive linguistics approach benefited all learners, not just a subset with particular abilities.

Ideas y recursos para enseñar español a alumnos inmigrantes

Mario de la Fuente, Miguel Abín (2022)

En esta charla, organizada por el Departamento de Filología Hispánica y Clásica de la Universidad de León, Mario de la Fuente y Miguel Abín abordan el tema de la enseñanza de español a alumnos inmigrantes que estudian en la educación secundaria. A través de sus reflexiones y aportaciones podrás ver cuáles son las características de este contexto de enseñanza y descubrirás un montón de recursos que te ayudarán a llevar a buen puerto esta apasionante labor.

Mario de la Fuente es profesor de español para inmigrantes en la Fundación Sierra Pambley (León) y Miguel Abín es profesor de lengua y literatura en el I.E.S. Condes de Saldaña (Palencia).