Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: comprensión lectora cognición y procesamiento estudiantes portugueses tecnología educativa

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En este trabajo se pretende delinear la importancia de conocer explícitamente los condicionantes del proceso de lectura desde una perspectiva contextual (digital y analógica) para una optimización del proceso de aprendizaje en hablantes de lenguas afines. Para ello, se diseñó una prueba cuantitativa mediante la cual poder medir de manera más objetiva posible la capacidad de construcción de un cerebro lingüístico cuya lengua materna posee afinidades tan marcadas como es el portugués en relación con el español. Realizar un punto de comparación entre ambos grupos nos ayudó a conocer el nivel en el que los alumnos usan de una manera más o menos completa el sesgo informativo como elemento de ahorro...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: materiales didácticos interacción práctica docente enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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While the importance of materials in second language (L2) learning and instruction has been widely acknowledged, research on how materials mediate classroom interactions are still relatively scarce. This, however, is crucial considering the complex interplay among teacher, students and materials in classroom interactions. The study investigates this issue from an ecological perspective, regarding students’ learning through material use as holistic, dynamic, and emergent. Multiple data were collected combining classroom discourse analysis with students’ reflection and interview data. Findings revealed that: (1) different materials catalyse different patterns of classroom interactions as well as teacher and students’ talk; and that (2) while students tended to be more expressive in texts that are personally relevant, texts with literary...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: aprendizaje colaborativo expresión escrita metacognición interacción

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Although research about group interactions during second or foreign language (L2 or EFL) collaborative writing has proliferated in the last few decades, little is known about the role of psychological factors, like learners’ knowledge about collaborative writing, in affecting students’ patterns of interaction and learning in collaborative writing. Informed by metacognitive theory, this study used a mixed-method approach to investigate whether and how L2 students’ knowledge about collaborative writing affected their participation (patterns of interaction) and learning (languaging opportunities) during the collaborative writing process. Two parallel classes (one with explicit collaborative writing knowledge taught; one without) were compared and multiple sources of data (interviews, reflective journals, pair talk) were analysed for...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: corpus registro coloquial pragmática competencia comunicativa

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El presente trabajo atiende a la rentabilidad de los corpus discursivos orales como recurso didáctico en la clase de E/LE para los niveles B2 y C1. La explotación de estas muestras constituye una importante herramienta para que el estudiante desarrolle y mejore sus competencias comunicativas en E/LE. Gracias al empleo de corpus discursivos orales para la didáctica es posible ofrecer muestras reales producidas por nativos en diferentes contextos.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos aprendizaje colaborativo CALL/ELAO expresión oral

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This study concerns a cooperative podcast creation task undertaken by second-year bachelors students enrolled on an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) vocabulary course in Belgium. While a handful of studies have documented the perceptions of language learners engaged in podcast production, the few that have explicitly focused on emotions have been anxiety-centered, mirroring research in computer assisted language learning (CALL) contexts and language learning more generally. This study compared the socio-emotional experiences of 38 EFL learners in two conditions – a podcast creation task and during general language learning – to explore how emotions and their potential sources differed across contexts. Open-ended responses were analyzed alongside items from validated foreign language anxiety and enjoyment scales. The quantitative...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas comprensión lectora motivación factores afectivos

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While the multidimensional nature of reading engagement has been widely acknowledged in the English as a first language context, the constructs of reading engagement have remained inadequately investigated empirically in the English as a foreign language context, and research on the predictive effects of these constructs on learning achievement is limited in the area of learning English as a foreign language. The first purpose of this study was therefore to develop the English as a Foreign Language Reading Engagement Questionnaire (EFL-REQ) and validate its psychometric properties among college EFL learners. The second purpose was to assess the predictive effects of the EFL-REQ dimensions on English learning achievement. A series of psychometric tests was conducted with a large sample of college EFL learners in China (n = 1, 341) who...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas creencias y actitudes de los profesores pronunciación formación de profesores

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Teacher cognition has attracted increased attention among second language (L2) researchers and practitioners, likely because of its potential consequences for classroom practices, such as teaching and assessment. Prior research has revealed links between teacher beliefs about pronunciation teaching and teachers’ own experience (e.g. amount of teacher training and teaching experience). However, no research has to date focused on how teachers’ experience and their beliefs are intertwined, possibly affecting teacher assessments of L2 speakers’ pronunciation. For this study, 77 Japanese pre-service teachers of English completed an online questionnaire examining their beliefs about the teaching of English pronunciation and eliciting details about their L2 teaching and learning experience. Additionally, pre-service teachers assessed 40...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: escritura creativa expresión escrita comprensión lectora géneros textuales

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La presente experiencia práctica es una propuesta de la explotación de noticias de sucesos para actividades de escritura creativa en E/LE. Tomaremos como ejemplo una noticia publicada originalmente en la sección de sucesos del periódico Las Provincias (versión digital). Explicaremos el potencial que posee este tipo de materiales auténticos para diseñar actividades de comprensión y expresión escrita (niveles B1-B2). Creemos que la mayor ventaja que ofrece el uso de las noticias de sucesos en clase —siempre que sean textos seleccionados cuidadosamente por el profesor— es que motivan y despiertan el interés de los alumnos a la misma vez que los trasladan al contexto de la actualidad española.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enfoque por tareas expresión oral cognición y procesamiento atención a la forma

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This mixed-methods study investigates how task type—independent versus integrated—and task repetition may influence the complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) of second language oral performance and learners’ underlying attention orientation. Fifty-six Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners completed either an independent (reading–speaking) or integrated (reading–listening–speaking) task, repeated after one week. CAF measures captured performance changes, and stimulated recall interviews with 24 participants traced attentional allocation according to Levelt’s (1989) speech model. No interaction effects emerged, but significant main effects were found: repetition was associated with increases in syntactic complexity and accuracy, and task type affected speech rate. Stimulated recalls appeared to align with these findings...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario comunicación no verbal multimodalidad cognición y procesamiento

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We evaluate the impact of gestures during the teaching of vocabulary in a foreign language (FL). Spanish speakers learned words in a FL in four gesture conditions according to the relationship between the meaning of the words and the gestures (congruent gestures, incongruent gestures, gestures without meaning, and no gestures). The participants learned the words by performing gestures (‘do’ teaching group) or by observing the gestures performed by others (‘see’ teaching group). Compared to the meaningless gesture condition, the processing of congruent gestures facilitated the recall of second language (L2) words in the ‘see’ and ‘do’ teaching groups. However, the interference effect associated with the processing of incongruent gestures was greater in the ‘see’ teaching group than in the ‘do’ teaching group. Thus, the performance of...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: translingüismo expresión escrita multilingüismo enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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Translingual pedagogies have been proposed and implemented to respond to the increasing linguistic and cultural diversity in today’s classrooms. However, the findings of translingual pedagogies on English as an additional language (EAL) writing vary from facilitating to undermining teaching and learning. To understand the empirical landscape of this young and fast-growing research area, I systematically reviewed 62 studies with a research synthesis method to explore what translingual activities have been implemented and how they have impacted EAL writing teaching and learning (including both K-12 and post-secondary contexts). The findings reveal that various translingual activities, such as self-reflective writing and literacy narrative, have been enacted in EAL writing teaching and learning. These activities have been practiced in...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: literatura cultura enfoque por tareas materiales audiovisuales

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El estudio de las vanguardias a través de su contexto histórico y de sus producciones artísticas se propone como una actividad interdisciplinar, en la que los alumnos no solo se centren en el aspecto literario sino que también observen cómo se lleva adelante la ruptura de principios de siglo XX respecto a la pintura, el cine, la arquitectura y la música, mediante el uso de la lengua española. Este artículo propone clases que se impartan de manera participativa, desde la lectura y el análisis conjunto de los manifiestos, pasando por el visionado de cortos, el audio de música de vanguardia y la visualización de obras de arte. Mediante la integración de literatura y uso de la lengua, se propone un...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario expresión oral interacción migración y acogida

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Esta experiencia pretende aportar una posibilidad más para lograr la cohesión y la participación en un aula de español para inmigrantes donde, para salvar la heterogeneidad, se convierte en necesario conseguir la participación activa de los estudiantes. Para tal objetivo se propone realizar una actividad en la que los estudiantes trabajen la descripción desde un enfoque comunicativo, dejando de lado la expresión escrita.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: telecolaboración e intercambios virtuales motivación competencia intercultural identidad

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While computer-mediated communication and online exchanges between students in second language (L2) pedagogy and research has long been established, recent technological advances have seen a growth in the number of projects undertaken and consequently studies published. This study utilized a mixed-methods approach to measure the effects on specific aspects of motivation for students learning English following a 10-week, multicultural virtual exchange project. Participants interacted both synchronously and asynchronously with other non-native English speakers from 10 different countries to make friends, share cultural interests, and practice English in a real-world, non-classroom setting. At the end of the project, participants were asked to complete a survey based on Dörnyei’s concept of the L2 motivational self system and Yashima’s...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación diferencias individuales estudiantes chinos enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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With increasing attention paid to the effects of learning a foreign language (FL) on older adults in the currently ageing world, psychological individual difference (ID) variables (e.g. learning motivation) remain much under-investigated, compared with cognitive IDs. This exploratory study examined older adults’ English learning motivation in the Chinese context of English as a foreign language (EFL) by conducting a web-based survey (n = 510) and semi-structured interviews (n = 21). Results showed that (1) the selected sociobiographical variables influenced older adults’ English learning motivation to different degrees, among which education, use frequency of English and socioeconomic status (SES) emerged as very important predictors; and (2) four motivators for English learning by older adults emerged as traveling or visiting...

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