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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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: géneros textuales comprensión lectora expresión oral materiales didácticos

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En esta experiencia práctica hacemos uso de un recurso tan económico y accesible como es el periódico para realizar una secuencia de actividades en el aula de español como lengua extranjera (E/LE) cuyo objetivo es ejercitar las destrezas de comprensión lectora y de expresión oral de forma integrada.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: variación y variedades del español sociolingüística actitudes lingüísticas formación de profesores

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En las últimas décadas se ha puesto de relieve la importancia de incluir las variedades lingüísticas en la clase de ELE y en los manuales de enseñanza de español, pero poco se ha considerado la formación que reciben los profesores que imparten esta docencia para poder aportar una enseñanza adecuada y rigurosa a sus alumnos. Para ello destacamos la necesidad de mejorar la metodología aplicada a la enseñanza de las variedades lingüísticas en el ámbito universitario con la confección y análisis de muestras reales de lengua que fomenten la atención y motivación de los estudiantes y mejoren, al mismo tiempo, su nivel de conocimientos. Presentamos aquí los resultados obtenidos durante la docencia a...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: translingüismo telecolaboración e intercambios virtuales formación de profesores multilingüismo

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In a telecollaboration (or ‘virtual exchange’) between teacher candidates (TCs) from Türkiye and the United States (U.S.), U.S. TCs experience various elements of translingual practice as potential challenge to their monolingual backgrounds. The challenges occur as TCs from the U.S. context work to fulfill, with Turkish assistance, collaborative final projects: a K-6 learning resource in the form of ‘kamishibai’, digital story, or translanguaging children’s book. Analysis in the article draws on various data sources, including the final projects, recorded video interactions between U.S. and Turkish TCs, and written reflections by U.S. TCs. The analysis aims to answer the following research...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: competencia léxica vocabulario expresión oral evaluación

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The current study investigates the extent to which receptive vocabulary size test scores can predict second language (L2) speaking ability. Forty-six international students with an advanced level of L2 proficiency completed a receptive vocabulary task (Yes/No test; Meara & Miralpeix, 2017) and a spontaneous speaking task (oral picture narrative). Elicited speech samples were submitted to expert rating based on speakers’ vocabulary features as well as lexical sophistication measures. Results indicate that vocabulary size was significantly associated with vocabulary rating. However, learners with large vocabulary sizes did not necessarily produce lexically sophisticated L2 words during speech. A closer examination of the data reveals complexities regarding the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and speaking. Based on these...

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