Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pragmática fraseología vocabulario corpus

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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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Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: cognición y procesamiento adquisición de segundas lenguas

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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: libro

Temas: español para fines específicos diseño curricular educación superior

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Learner-centered practical strategies, models, and resources for the development of world languages for specific purposes curriculum.

The world today is changing, and college-level language departments are rethinking and revamping their vision and curricular offerings as a result. The field of world languages for specific purposes (WLSP) presents a solution to these challenges, helping students develop language skills and intercultural competencies as they focus on content-based professional areas such as business, law, and medicine. As demand for these courses grows, teachers and administrators seek research-based information on how to develop and teach WLSP curricula. This book bridges theory and practice, inviting scholars, educators, students, and professionals of all areas of world language specialization to...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: fraseología vocabulario enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario colocaciones

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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: pronunciación Australia creencias y actitudes de los profesores profesorado

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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: libro

Temas: manuales lingüística aplicada enseñanza de ELE

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The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics provides a comprehensive overview of Hispanic applied linguistics, allowing students to understand the field from a variety of perspectives and offering insight into the ever-growing number of professional opportunies afforded to Spanish language program graduates. The goal of this book is to re-contextualize the notion of applied linguistics as simply the application of theoretical linguistic concepts to practical settings and to consider it as its own field that addresses language-based issues and problems in a real-world context. The book is organized into five parts: 1) perspectives on learning Spanish 2) issues and environments in Spanish teaching 3) Spanish in the professions 4) the discourses of Spanish and 5) social and political contexts for Spanish. The book's all-...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: prosodia pronunciación estudiantes fineses fonética

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Spanish and Finnish have a similar, syllable-timed, rhythm but very different stress and intonation patterns. Based on the "Frequency Code," whereby meanings of confidence and aggressiveness are associated with low pitch, and those of submission and smallness with high pitch, we establish a taxonomy of the functions and meanings of intonation with examples in Spanish and Finnish. These functions can be grammatical, attitudinal, pragmatic, and sociolinguistic. To teach intonation to Finnish L2 Spanish students of an advanced level, we raise their awareness through the comparison of the intonational patterns of the two languages and through inductive reasoning. Our proposal fosters a multimodal approach based on the imitation of native speech, on the visual representation of prosody through software like Praat, and on the use of...

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Tipo: libro

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: géneros textuales formación de profesores lingüística

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Dirigido a profesionales de la enseñanza del español, profesores, formadores de profesores, investigadores y a futuros profesores de EFE.Amplia exposición de los principales conceptos de la lingüística textual acompañada de una serie de actividades que faciliten la asimilación de dichos conceptos. Se abordan aspectos fundamentales de la lingüística de del texto a lo largo de 6 capítulos. Se proponen una serie de actividades prácticas comentadas al final de cada capítulo que finalizan con una breve reflexión sobre la trascendencia de estos conceptos en la enseñanza-aprendizaje de ELE. Al final del libro se publica una bibliografía de referencia sobre estudios del texto/discursos y didáctica de LE / L2.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario vocabulario gramática

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This article presents the results of a research project investigating how a student's ability to successfully learn vocabulary of four word classes (nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs) is affected by the activity through which it is practised. Two-hundred and ninety-two B1 SL students of Spanish were presented with one of three different activities requiring different involvement loads: (1) choosing the appropriate definition; (2) filling in gaps in sentences; and (3) writing sentences that include target words. The analysis shows that participants recalled and recognised more nouns and fewer adverbs—the only non-inflected word class. Additionally, sentence-writing is the activity through which learning new words is the easiest; and the least effective is the definition-choosing activity.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: vocabulario enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario competencia léxica

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Con esta investigación, pretendemos ayudar a los profesores de español como L2 a seleccionar el léxico adecuado al nivel de sus estudiantes. El argumento de partida es de naturaleza cognitiva: si accedemos a los mecanismos que utilizan los hablantes nativos para organizar el vocabulario, escogeremos el léxico necesario para la comunicación. Primero, definimos la disponibilidad léxica y explicamos cómo se obtienen sus listas. Después, usamos la teoría de los prototipos para explicar la estructura que forman las palabras en la mente de los hablantes. Posteriormente, proponemos una adecuada selección léxica a partir del modelo Fuzzy Expected Value. Por último, reflexionamos sobre la importancia de trabajar con un vocabulario adaptado a la competencia de los estudiantes.

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Our research aims to provide SLT...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: vocabulario lexicografía estrategias de aprendizaje

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Con el objetivo de contribuir al desarrollo de las estrategias de búsqueda lexicográfica de los estudiantes de español LE/L2, se realizó un estudio empírico para averiguar el uso concreto de recursos lexicográficos por parte tanto de profesores como de estudiantes. Con tal finalidad se observaron y anotaron los recursos usados, el orden de consulta y también las estrategias aplicadas por ambos grupos al realizar una traducción técnica del alemán al español. El análisis de los datos revela que existen pocas diferencias entre las estrategias de ambos grupos de usuarios: si bien los estudiantes realizan un mayor número de consultas y usan más recursos, no necesitan más tiempo que los...

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Tipo: libro

Temas: vocabulario enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario morfología propuestas didácticas

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Formación de palabras y enseñanza del español LE/L2 offers a unique combination of theory and practice that guides the reader through the main processes of word formation in Spanish. It provides a detailed analysis of the role of lexical creation in the acquisition of L2 Spanish vocabulary, as well as over a hundred practical self-reflection activities.

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Listado de tablas

Listado de actividades

Introducción

Capítulo 1. Operatividad didáctica de la formación de palabras en la enseñanza de español LE/L2

Capítulo 2. La formación de palabras: consideraciones metodológicas

Capítulo 3. El vocabulario y las familias de palabras

Capítulo 4. La productividad en la formación de palabras

Capítulo 5. La reflexión morfológica en el aula de ELE: propuestas y...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: prosodia pronunciación estudiantes suecos fonética

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Based on previous research, this paper aims to provide the first steps towards a model for the teaching of Spanish prosody to Swedish learners by identifying main prosodic characteristics, referred to as Core Prosodic Features (CPFs), for the teaching of Spanish in a Swedish setting. The study addresses salient prosodic features of L1 Spanish in comparison to L1 Swedish, and discusses whether the Swedish L1 features are likely to be transferred into L2 Spanish. Another central issue of the paper is whether such transfer is likely to interfere with communication. Three Prosodic Core Features are identified: (1) focal-accent location, (2) vowel duration patterns, and (3) prosodic patterns in rising boundary tones.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: vocabulario enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario input comprensión lectora

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This study examines the effects of word frequency and typographical enhancement (i.e., words in bold) on the learning of single words in Spanish L2 reading activities in a classroom setting. Learners read a text in which target words appearing in bold occurred one, five or 10 times. A parallel text was also provided in which those same words appeared un-bolded. Students were tested three times on both spelling and meaning of the target words: before, immediately after and two weeks after the reading activity. Results show that: (1) after five or 10 encounters, both spelling and meaning recognition skills increase; (2) words appearing in bold only lead to learning gains at a form recognition level immediately after the test is taken and do not contribute to the acquisition of meaning in the post-test; and (3) there is no interaction...

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Tipo: libro

Temas: tecnología educativa innovación educativa enseñanza de ELE aprendizaje autónomo

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Aprender a aprender en la era digital provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account that empowers readers to leverage learning technologies to promote second language learner autonomy. Written entirely in Spanish, the book covers a breadth of innovative topics in the teaching of Spanish via and with technology, such as emerging pedagogies, autonomous and participatory learning, learner agency and identity, teacher development, and post-communicative curriculum design.

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Introducción

1. Las tecnologías del aprendizaje y el conocimiento

2. Aprender a aprender de forma autónoma

3. Los aprendientes de L2 ante las TAC

4. Desafíos para el profesorado en la era digital

5 Autonomía y tecnología: ¿quién toma las decisiones?

5.6 A modo de síntesis

6 Manos...

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