Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: interacción expresión oral factores afectivos diferencias individuales

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Cumulative research has explored willingness to communicate (WTC) in English as a second language and English as a foreign language contexts, but few have looked at the interface between WTC and learner talk from a Chinese learning perspective. This study investigates how six multilingual and multicultural students’ WTC translates into talk in a Chinese as a foreign language classroom in a highly internationalised Scottish University. Specifically, it examines what factors play a part in translating WTC into talk and how such factors enable or impede the process. It adopts a qualitative multiple-case study approach comprising high-density monthly triangulations of classroom observations, learner journals, video-stimulated recall interviews and semi-structured interviews conducted over one academic year. Findings revealed 13 learner-...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: corpus expresión escrita tecnología educativa enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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The present study performs a meta-analysis to examine the effectiveness of corpus use in English as a second language (ESL) / English as a foreign language (EFL) writing. Data from 30 studies encompassing 56 effect sizes reported between 2000 and 2022 were collected for the analysis. Furthermore, multiple meta-regression analyses were conducted to explore the variables that may influence the observed effects. These variables are extracted from three groups of data: publication data, population data, and treatment data. The results demonstrate a large overall effect size (g = 0.95) for the impact of corpus use in ESL/EFL student writing performance. This finding suggests that utilizing corpora significantly enhances students’ writing abilities in these contexts. Moreover, the analyses of moderators reveal that the observed effects can...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: experiencia práctica

Temas: análisis de errores feedback/retroalimentación determinantes estudiantes anglófonos

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La Consellería de Cultura, Educación y Deporte ha puesto en marcha, hace tres años, en el CEED (Centre Específic d’Educació a Distància) de Valencia, un programa totalmente gratuito de enseñanza de español a extranjeros. El programa se titula «Castellano para inmigrantes», aunque cada vez más se emplea la denominación de «Castellano para extranjeros».

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: lexicografía enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario aprendizaje autónomo materiales didácticos

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La lengua española es estudiada por millones de personas en todo el mundo, dada su gran importancia en la sociedad actual. Sin embargo, los diccionarios no son aprovechados al máximo por los estudiantes ya que, generalmente, estos usan el diccionario bilingüe durante toda su trayectoria de aprendizaje. Además, estos cuentan con el beneplácito de los docentes, a pesar de la existencia de otras obras lexicográficas que se adaptan mejor a las diferentes etapas que existen en el aprendizaje de un idioma extranjero.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos motivación expresión oral diferencias individuales

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Learners’ foreign language engagement (FLEng) plays a crucial role in language acquisition, yet its mediating influence between learner emotions and willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second language (L2) remains underexplored. This study investigates how emotional contexts—including positive emotions such as foreign language peace of mind (FLPoM) and foreign language enjoyment (FLE), as well as negative emotions such as foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) and foreign language boredom (FLB)—affect English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ L2 WTC. Utilizing the 3D pyramid model of L2 WTC, we analyzed data from 301 participants who completed six questionnaires. The findings revealed that FLPoM, FLE, FLCA, and FLB did not directly influence L2 WTC. However, learners’ FLEng was found to fully mediate the relationships between...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: aprendizaje colaborativo expresión escrita andamiaje/scaffolding educación primaria y secundaria

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Collaborative writing (CW) has been proven advantageous to enhance the second and foreign language skills of university students. However, little research to date has explored whether CW practices are fruitful for secondary school learners in foreign language (FL) contexts, a population characterized by low language proficiency levels, and few opportunities to engage with the FL. The present classroom-based study examines CW in this setting and aims to determine whether CW fosters language opportunities, operationalized as language-related episodes (LREs), which will allow learners in low-input scenarios to compose better texts. Two parallel intact classes were studied: a control group (n = 16) which produced an argumentative essay individually, and an experimental group (n = 16) which did so in pairs while recording their...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: tecnología educativa expresión oral evaluación metacognición

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Este artículo presenta una propuesta didáctica que forma parte de una investigación doctoral de carácter exploratorio-interpretativo sobre el proceso de realización de un proyecto de podcasting por parte de los alumnos para la adquisición de español como lengua extranjera. A la hora de evaluar el proyecto surgieron una serie de preguntas: ¿Qué y cómo evaluar? ¿Qué es lo que ocurre durante el proceso? ¿Cómo lo viven los alumnos? ¿Se produce un aprendizaje significativo y sostenible? En primer lugar se presenta el marco teórico y se describe a continuación el desarrollo de la propuesta didáctica. Finalmente se presentan las conclusiones.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: inteligencia artificial feedback/retroalimentación expresión escrita creencias y actitudes de los estudiantes

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Model texts have been widely recognized as an effective feedback instrument in enhancing second-language (L2) writing. Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), capable of producing humanlike text in response to user prompts, offer an accessible and efficient alternative for generating customized model texts tailored to L2 learners’ specific goals and proficiency levels. Despite this potential, little empirical research has examined L2 students’ practice and perceptions of leveraging GenAI for model text creation to support their revision. To address this gap, this study follows a process approach to investigate students’ prompting strategies to elicit AI-generated model texts, their noticing and incorporation of the model text features, and their perceptions of this process. Data were collected from 12 university...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas telecolaboración e intercambios virtuales competencia intercultural interacción

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This study investigates an eTandem virtual exchange program designed for Korean and English language learners to enhance their target language proficiency and intercultural understanding. The program was implemented through synchronous Zoom sessions between 31 Korean learners at a U.S. state university (U-A) and 32 learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) at a Korean science and engineering university (U-K). Program effectiveness and participant satisfaction were assessed through student questionnaires and professor interviews. Findings indicate that 89.3% of U-A participants felt the program was beneficial for improving their Korean language skills, while 77.3% of U-K participants...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: diferencias individuales factores afectivos motivación metodología de investigación

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This article explores intersections between two subfields of second language acquisition research: learner psychology (LP) and instructed second language acquisition (ISLA). Despite the common goal of discovering second language (L2) learning processes and products, the two inquiries have taken distinct paths. We argue that it is necessary to unite the knowledge and methods in the two inquiries, in order to answer theoretical and practical questions pertaining to classroom L2 teaching and learning. We make the case that the L2 classroom may be an ideal venue to explore the intersections of the two fields. Three intersections will be discussed. First, research can address the relationship between LP and interactional behaviors during classroom activities that have been investigated in ISLA research. Second, the roles of teachers, the...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: géneros textuales expresión escrita expresión oral MCER

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Describir es algo que hacemos muy a menudo en nuestra vida cotidiana. La descripción es una unidad de composición textual muy elemental y está presente en textos de tipos muy diversos. Para la lingüística del texto, es uno de los modos fundamentales de organización y de coherencia de los enunciados. Su presencia en el aula de E/LE es, pues, inexcusable y así lo demuestra el tratamiento que de ella se halla en el Marco común europeo de referencia y en el Plan Curricular del Instituto Cervantes.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: mediación atenuación pragmática competencia intercultural

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La fluidez de una lengua y sus matices son algo imprescindible que los estudiantes tienen que aprender y saber reconocer si quieren convertirse en buenos mediadores lingüísticos e interculturales. Se presenta, pues, una actividad didáctica en la que, en primer lugar, y dando por sentado las competencias lingüísticas generales de los estudiantes franceses (con nivel B2-C1 de E/LE según el MCER, 2001), con los que se ha llevado a cabo la actividad, se pretende hacer reflexionar a los mismos sobre sus conocimientos pragmáticos atenuantes previos con el fin de mejorar sus destrezas comunicativas que necesitan para desenvolverse en la profesión de mediadores lingüísticos. A partir de ello, en segundo...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: aprendizaje colaborativo manuales comprensión lectora tecnología educativa

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Web-based peer learning (WPL) is widely recognized as effectively complementing students’ learning activities. However, its role in students’ textbook use, which is an important aspect of students’ knowledge construction, is still unknown, particularly with respect to pre-class textbook use. To fill this knowledge gap, this qualitative case study explored WPL’s role in pre-class textbook use (i.e., textbooks used before in-class instruction of a new text) of 15 students enrolled in an English-as-a-foreign-language reading course at a university in China. A thematic analysis of multiple data resources (e.g., interviews with students and students’ web-based activities) collected over a semester was conducted. The results showed that in addition to improving their reading literacy, the students’ WPL helped them retain the content learned...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación identidad expresión escrita educación primaria y secundaria

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This study aims to enhance second language (L2) learners’ motivation and facilitate successful L2 learning by using motivational languaging, an intervention that encourages learners to reflect on, and externalize, their L2-speaking, competent future self-concepts by writing or speaking about them. Two types of effective languaging activities were developed: individual and group writing. Participants were 264 Grade 10 high school students, divided into three groups: one control group and two experimental groups. Using activity workbooks, the first experimental group engaged in ‘individual writing’ guided by a series of questions in their workbooks (e.g. reasons for learning English and their ideal images of using English). The second experimental group carried out ‘group writing’, including group discussions and writing of group...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: uso de la L1 en el aula enfoque por tareas enseñanza en línea e híbrida expresión oral

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This study examined the impact of collaborative pre-task strategic planning followed by rehearsal on the quantity and novelty of content used in task performances when strategic planning is performed in different language conditions in an online classroom. Forty Japanese university students of English as a foreign language (EFL) from two intact online classrooms were separated into pairs and performed second language (L2) problem-solution monologue tasks in two conditions. The first condition involved collaborative strategic planning in the second language (L2SP), which was followed by a task rehearsal; the second condition involved collaborative strategic planning in the first language (L1SP), which was followed by a task rehearsal. Task performances were analysed in terms of idea units generated and, by examining strategic planning...

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