Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: inteligencia artificial creencias y actitudes de los profesores educación superior competencia digital

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Teachers’ beliefs play a critical role in shaping how AI tools are interpreted and used in instruction, yet these beliefs have rarely been systematically assessed in university language teaching. This study aims to develop and validate a measurement instrument for assessing teachers’ beliefs about AI-assisted instruction, grounded in the Intelligent-Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge framework. A sequential, two-wave quantitative design was employed, with data from 508 teachers used for exploratory factor analysis (EFA), followed by confirmatory validation using an independent sample of 487 teachers. Data analyses were conducted using SPSS for EFA, AMOS for confirmatory factor analysis and Mplus for measurement invariance testing. The results supported a reliable five-factor belief structure: AI knowledge beliefs, AI...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión escrita enfoque por tareas cognición y procesamiento educación superior

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The present study investigated the potential of writing in English as a foreign language (EFL) for language learning by manipulating cognitive task complexity based on related models and hypotheses. English essays written by 59 Chinese postgraduate EFL students from different subject areas were analysed with reference to writing complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF). Results showed that task complexity had no significant effect on EFL learners’ lexical complexity but had an influence on their syntactic variation in EFL writing. Findings suggest that manipulating writing task complexity could be a feasible means to promoting and enhancing EFL learners’ language learning. Such findings might broaden our understanding of the relationship between EFL writing and language learning in an EFL learning context. The interplay of EFL writing...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enfoque por tareas expresión escrita cognición y procesamiento adquisición de segundas lenguas

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Task design features have different effects on second language (L2) production and can be adopted for different pedagogical purposes. However, the synergistic effects of task features were left unexplored in the extant task-based literature. The present study investigated the synergistic effects of two task design features, namely, prior knowledge and reasoning demands, on the writing performance of Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). Fifty EFL learners were invited to complete two writing tasks, with varying reasoning demands, under one of two conditions, namely, with prior knowledge available or without prior knowledge available. Their written texts were analysed in terms of complexity, accuracy, fluency, and communicative adequacy, to reflect the multi-componential nature of task performance. The results...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: cultura competencia intercultural enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario escritura creativa

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La gastronomía es uno de los temas más recurrentes en la enseñanza de segundas lenguas, no solo por el aspecto meramente culinario, sino también debido a la carga cultural que lleva aparejada. En el caso del aprendizaje del español como lengua extranjera, la cocina juega un papel fundamental en el día a día de los alumnos en inmersión lingüística. La amplia oferta y variedad de productos, platos y dietas en ocasiones es ignorada por los alumnos por su falta de información o su adscripción a circuitos típicos de estudiantes en los que predominan los productos baratos y escasamente sanos. Por ello, «¡Para chuparse los dedos!» está concebida como una actividad de localización y descarte de los tópicos...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: materiales audiovisuales cultura tecnología educativa motivación

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La utilización de medios audiovisuales es de sobra recomendable en el aula de E/LE por diferentes razones. La primera de ellas es que el alumnado ha cambiado. Nuestros estudiantes están generalmente acostumbrados a desarrollar cualquier tipo de competencia o actividad a través de algún medio audiovisual. Todos los estudiantes ven películas, escuchan música y navegan por Internet sin el menor problema. Entonces, la pregunta resulta obvia: si los estudiantes no son competentes en los formatos analógicos tradicionales, ¿por qué seguimos basando nuestras clases en dichos métodos?

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: aula invertida/flipped learning motivación enseñanza/aprendizaje de la gramática educación primaria y secundaria

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While the flipped learning approach has been widely implemented in science-relevant subjects, little empirical research has been conducted in language learning, particularly among low-proficiency learners. The present study aims to examine the pedagogical effects of flipped learning on low-proficiency students’ learning outcomes and attitudes (motivation and self-efficacy). An eight-week experiment was conducted on 52 low-proficiency learners who attended intensive English grammar classes in a national high school. The experimental group (EG) (27 students) learnt with the flipped approach whereas the contrast group (CG) (25 students) was taught through a conventional approach. The performance by...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: aula invertida/flipped learning aprendizaje autónomo enseñanza en línea e híbrida reflexión docente

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The Covid-19 pandemic required a transformation into innovative classroom pedagogies that expected language learners to become more active and shoulder more responsibilities than before. In this article, I report on my first experience of doing exploratory practice to examine online flipped classrooms used to develop English as a foreign language (EFL) students’ self-directed learning. In a classroom-based mixed-methods study, I examined and puzzled over classroom practices that may promote learners’ self-directed readiness in the context of a university-level writing class. The results indicated a significant increase in my students’ desire for learning and self-control. They also showed that learners need technical assistance and psychological support to increase their self-directed learning skills and become more self-directed and...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: literatura competencia comunicativa comprensión lectora propuestas didácticas

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En esta unidad didáctica que presentamos, hemos tenido en consideración la teoría comunicativa (Dell Hymes) que postula que, para poder actuar de una manera eficiente en una comunidad, no basta con construir enunciados gramaticalmente correctos, sino que estos deben adaptarse al contexto situacional en el que se insertan.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: español como lengua de herencia evaluación diseño curricular educación superior

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La creciente presencia de hablantes de herencia en los programas de español como segunda lengua de España nos ha hecho percatarnos de las necesidades de este tipo de alumno. Por ello, resumimos las investigaciones y reflexiones que se han llevado a cabo en diferentes universidades estadounidenses sobre los hablantes de herencia en clases universitarias, enfocándonos en las pruebas de clasificación. En primer lugar, definimos el perfil del hablante de herencia, haciendo énfasis en sus fortalezas y debilidades lingüísticas y destacando lo que lo distingue de un alumno de español como segunda lengua. A continuación, describimos los intentos que se han hecho en diferentes universidades con una...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresiones idiomáticas competencia léxica influencia de la L1 enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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Factors that predict second language (L2) collocation knowledge have been extensively studied, but research on predictors of L2 knowledge of idioms is still limited. The aim of the present study is to examine the effect of various factors established in L2 collocation research on idioms. These include L2 proficiency, idiom frequency, and congruency status (whether the idiom can be literally translated into the first language or L1). To that end, 225 L1-Arabic–L2-English speakers completed three measures (familiarity rating, meaningfulness rating, and meaning recall) involving 72 English idioms, half congruent and half incongruent. Additionally, the participants completed a vocabulary size test as a rough measure of their English proficiency. We initially examined the association between the ratings provided by the L2 participants and...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: feedback/retroalimentación expresión escrita análisis de errores enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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This study investigated the short-term and delayed effects of comprehensive written corrective feedback (WCF) on L2 learners’ revision accuracy and new pieces of writing (i.e., the transfer effect of feedback). Three types of feedback were compared: direct feedback and two types of indirect feedback that differed in their degree of explicitness (i.e., underlining only and underlining+metalinguistic cues). Fifty-three intermediate level learners of English as a second language (ESL) were divided randomly into four groups: One direct, two indirect, and a control group. Students produced three pieces of writing from different picture prompts and revised them over a three-week period. Each group also produced a new piece of writing two weeks later. The study included seven sessions: Writing 1, revision of Writing 1, Writing 2, revision of...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pronunciación fonética estudiantes chinos influencia de la L1

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Este trabajo de fonética aplicada surgió a raíz de la observación de una serie de problemas de carácter estrictamente lingüístico que presentan los estudiantes sinohablantes en las actuales aulas de español. El objetivo del mismo era mostrar cómo se puede acercar la pronunciación de los estudiantes cuya lengua materna es el chino a la de los hispanohablantes nativos. Para lograr dicho objetivo se realizaron unas grabaciones y el análisis de las mismas permitió realizar un diagnóstico de los problemas que presentaban las informantes, tras el cual se diseñó una secuencia didáctica basada en los principios del método verbo-tonal. Esta estaba formada por ejercicios de discriminación auditiva y de...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: metodología de investigación publicaciones académicas lingüística aplicada enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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A central concern among qualitative researchers over the last two decades has been enhancing its visibility and credibility, particularly among quantitative researchers as well as general audiences. Addressing calls for top-down insights to help stakeholders of research take stock of an increasingly large and complex literature body, this bibliometric analysis provides quantitative insights into 3,758 qualitative studies in language education, published in 34 major academic journals from 1999 to 2021. It investigates patterns of research productivity across authors, their institutions and the countries these are located in, the journals authors publish in, the research approaches they use, the...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas competencia intercultural cultura enfoque por tareas

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This study explores the development of intercultural competence among English as a foreign language (EFL) learners through critical incident task discussions. Participants included 72 intermediate-level students in a control group and 69 in an experimental group. Both groups completed a presurvey on intercultural competence, whereas the experimental group additionally engaged in weekly critical incident discussions and submitted their reflections. At the end of the intervention, both groups completed a postsurvey, and the experimental group provided open-ended responses about their experiences. Results revealed significant gains in intercultural competence for the experimental group, with no comparable improvement in the control group. Learners reported increased awareness of cultural values, norms, and differences, recognition of...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas factores afectivos profesorado práctica docente

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The regulation of language learners’ emotions by affective, or emotion-regulation strategies has received limited research attention. This gap is being filled among others by researchers who have developed and are applying a new research tool called Managing Your Emotions for Language Learning (MYE). It is based on the vignette methodology to investigate both positive and negative language learner emotions, emotion-regulation strategies that language learners employ, and language teachers’ interpersonal learner-directed emotion-regulation strategies used in a range of familiar language learning situations. In this study teachers’ interpersonal emotion-regulation strategies and their learner- and teacher-perceived effectiveness were investigated by means of MYE (n = 64: English-major learners) and semi-structured interviews with...

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