Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: paisaje lingüístico factores afectivos política lingüística enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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This study aims to investigate how the linguistic landscape can affect self-efficacy to improve the students’ foreign language enjoyment and learning in China with an emphasis on the moderating effect of language policy. It is crucial to establish how these factors influence students’ achievement in foreign language education in China. The current study sample comprised 550 students from different educational institutes in Beijing, China. Data were collected using convenience sampling technique. The study applied structural equation modeling (SEM) for analyzing the data using IBM SPSS AMOS software. The results affirm all proposed hypotheses. The findings reveal that linguistic landscape has a direct influence on self-efficacy (H1) and foreign language enjoyment and learning (H2). Self-efficacy has a positive effect on foreign...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: formación de profesores pedagogía crítica inclusión y equidad enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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Language learning happens across many sites of social interactions; those scarred by injustices, conflicts and structural violence as well as those characterized by conviviality of human encounters and acts of welcoming the stranger. This article outlines new directions for language teacher education in this age of ambiguity. I propose that its core task should involve educating ‘responsive meaning makers in the world’, that is, teachers who are critically conscious of the politics of their social worlds while, at the same time, committed to growing their capacity to respond to the particular moment of an educational encounter. I suggest that creative arts may play a crucial part in preparing language teachers for such re-envisioned roles.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas feedback/retroalimentación expresión escrita motivación

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Feedback-seeking behaviors (FSB), namely, attending to written comments (feedback monitoring) and requesting clarification or additional feedback (feedback inquiry), are central to writer agency and writing outcomes. Existing studies have yet to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the motivational underpinnings of FSB, particularly for adolescents. Prior FSB research also treated second language (L2) writers as a homogeneous group, overlooking variations in motivational configuration across different stages of writing development. Addressing these gaps, this study draws on situated expectancy-value theory (SEVT) to examine how motivation mediates a writing growth mindset’s influence on FSB and whether the associations vary across writing proficiency levels in a Chinese secondary-school context. Participants were 303 adolescent L2...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas factores afectivos diferencias individuales estudiantes polacos

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Although boredom can be regarded as a ubiquitous emotion in most educational settings, including foreign and second language classrooms, and this condition can have a detrimental effect on the process of learning, it has to a large extent escaped the attention of second language acquisition researchers dealing with individual learner differences. The study reported in this article sought to fill this gap by investigating the trajectories of boredom exhibited in a practical English class by 11 Polish university students majoring in English. The data were collected by means of a background questionnaire, the Boredom in Practical English Language Classes Questionnaire (BPELC), and an in-class boredom questionnaire, including a self-report boredom grid, an open-ended query and an evaluation of the class based on a semantic differential...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: adquisición de segundas lenguas cognición y procesamiento teorías de aprendizaje lingüística

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Por experiencia propia y ajena, sabemos que dominar una lengua extranjera puede llevar no pocos años y su consecución no siempre es todo lo deseable que debería. Y, sin embargo, mientras que el aprendizaje por parte de un adulto de una lengua extranjera se revela como una tarea compleja y, en ocasiones, poco fructífera, la adquisición de una lengua materna rara vez conduce a tales frustraciones y fracasos (salvo trastornos específicos del lenguaje) y se realiza en un relativamente corto espacio de tiempo (en torno a los cuatro años, se ha consolidado el inventario fonológico, se cuenta con un ya aceptable caudal léxico y se ha adquirido la morfosintaxis básica de la lengua). En este trabajo, se va...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: pragmática competencia intercultural materiales didácticos MCER

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Enseñar español implica algo más que cubrir contenidos léxico-gramaticales e introducir a los alumnos en la herencia cultural o histórica del país que lo acoge. Olvidar que una lengua se inscribe en unas coordenadas pragmático-sociales tiende a convertirse con frecuencia en una asignatura pendiente en la enseñanza de una lengua extranjera, dada la subjetividad que entraña su tratamiento en el aula. La necesidad de concienciación de que nuestros estudiantes adquieran una competencia pragmático-intercultural —además de una meramente lingüística— empieza a pesar sobre los hombros del profesor de E/LE por falta de herramientas didácticas específicas. Por todo ello, este artículo describe y presenta...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: evaluación expresión escrita inteligencia artificial educación primaria y secundaria

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This study examined the use of artificial intelligence tools, which have garnered significant attention in recent years, in the assessment and evaluation processes of language education. For this purpose, student essays were scored by Turkish middle school teachers and artificial intelligence tools both with and without the use of a rubric, and the findings were evaluated based on generalizability theory. Additionally, the research findings were shared with participants to gather qualitative data, which were analysed using the inductive thematic analysis method to support the research results. The findings revealed that in evaluations conducted without a rubric, teachers were limited in their...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: aprendizaje colaborativo interacción enfoque por tareas diferencias individuales

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Groupwork has become ubiquitous in language education, with the clear benefits of interaction and output on language acquisition. A body of research has investigated this interaction in pairs and small groups, and there is an increased understanding that individual group context is a key factor in determining the behavior of students. This article reports on a study that first investigated emergent leadership within groups, and the influence of the group on leader stability. The study then examined how leadership is represented in student task engagement. Students were placed into fixed small groups for the first semester, and then allowed to self-select into groups for the second semester. Perceptions of leadership were measured three times in each semester, and leaders were identified in each group. Results showed that changing...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión escrita escritura académica integridad académica comprensión lectora

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To avoid plagiarism, students have to learn the appropriate and effective ways of source text use, such as paraphrasing, summarizing, and citation. However, few studies have investigated how learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) employ copy and paraphrase as source text use strategies in completing writing tasks involving reading material, and how characteristics of the reading material, such as genre, affect such use. This article reports an empirical study that attempted to address the issue. Eighty students from an undergraduate program of a Chinese university wrote summaries for a narrative text and an expository text. Their drafts and the source texts are compared to identify instances of retention of strings of words from sources. Analysis of the summary scripts showed that participants heavily relied on the source...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: literatura pragmática comunicación no verbal cultura

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Este artículo propone el análisis de literatura moderna española, en concreto extractos de novelas de Almudena Grandes, para ahondar en los significados pragmáticos, tan difíciles de dominar para estudiantes de español como lengua extranjera en contextos de no inmersión. Se presentan una serie de actividades para alumnos a partir de un nivel A2, donde se trabajan aspectos socioculturales que definen significados pragmáticos mediante la comunicación verbal y no verbal, no solamente el uso de la voz, la kinésica y proxémica, sino también otros aspectos como el uso del espacio.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación factores afectivos diferencias individuales adquisición de segundas lenguas

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This study attempts to empirically examine the predictive power of learner anxiety and motivation and their causality in explaining proficiency in English as a foreign language (EFL) and other interrelated affective variables, including attitudes, self-confidence, and grit via a treatment-based causal model. To achieve this, the study carried out a 12-week experimental intervention employed by 8 EFL teachers with 282 EFL learners divided into four groups: in group 1, learners were exposed to anxiety-regulating strategies, those in group 2 were exposed to motivational strategies, those in group 3 were exposed to both anxiety-controlling and motivational strategies, and those in group 4 were not exposed to specific anxiety or motivation strategies. Data was gathered using questionnaires, classroom observations, and proficiency tests....

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: expresiones idiomáticas fraseología enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario cultura

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En la enseñanza de E/LE, el estudio del léxico es un aspecto fundamental que con frecuencia, en los manuales y libros de texto, queda relegado a un segundo plano supeditado a argumentos gramaticales. Por esta razón, con nuestra actividad profundizamos en el léxico, en concreto en las expresiones idiomáticas relacionadas con el mundo taurino.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: tiempos verbales enseñanza/aprendizaje de la gramática juegos aprendizaje colaborativo

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Con la actividad propuesta se pretende, por un lado, que los alumnos aprendan la conjugación de un tiempo verbal determinado. Por otro, mediante el aprendizaje cooperativo, los aprendientes tendrán la oportunidad de trabajar en equipo, beneficiándose de los conocimientos de los otros miembros. Cada uno de ellos será responsable del buen funcionamiento del grupo, es decir, cada individuo influirá de forma decisiva en el progreso del equipo.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: feedback/retroalimentación expresión escrita evaluación educación primaria y secundaria

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While student feedback literacy has garnered increasing attention in second language education, there is a paucity of research on the relationship between second language (L2) student writing feedback literacy and L2 student writing performance, especially in secondary school contexts. Based on two independent samples of 600 (54.3% female) and 727 (46.2% female) secondary students, the present study validated the L2-Student Writing Feedback Literacy Scale (L2-SWFLS) for secondary students in the Chinese context of English as a foreign language (EFL) and probed into the association between L2 secondary student writing feedback literacy and L2 writing performance. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were carried out to examine the factorial structure of the L2-SWFLS for secondary students. Structural...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión escrita comprensión lectora creencias y actitudes de los estudiantes educación primaria y secundaria

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This study explored how the iterative continuation task can be incorporated into a writing course in a setting for English as a foreign language (EFL). It investigated the effectiveness of the iterative continuation task in influencing senior high school students’ writing performance and their writing attitudes. Eighty-four year-one students from a China’s provincial senior high school participated in the study. They were divided into two groups: an experimental group and a control group, each consisting of 42 students. The experimental group was subjected to six turns of reading–writing continuation tasks, whereas the control group continued with the previous practice of a single turn of reading–writing continuation tasks. Data were collected from writing tests and questionnaires. The results show that the iterative continuation task...

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