Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión oral creencias y actitudes de los profesores práctica docente profesorado

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This study, a partial replication of Tavakoli and Hunter, examined the perceptions and self-reported practices of 72 second language (L2) teachers of English or Japanese in China regarding oral fluency. The research employed a mixed-methods approach, collecting both quantitative and qualitative data through questionnaires and interviews. The findings aligned with the original study conducted in the UK, suggesting that L2 teachers in China often viewed fluency as encompassing speaking ability in a broad sense. Therefore, these teachers reported a large majority of free production tasks that enhanced speaking ability, rather than specifically focusing on fluency development. Collectively, these...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: español como lengua de herencia español como lengua extranjera interacción aprendizaje colaborativo

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Drawing on positioning and sociocultural theories, this study examines heritage language (HL) and second language (L2) learners’ negotiation of linguistic expertise in mixed interactions. Through a case study of four interactions between the same HL learner and three different L2 classmates, it investigates how learners’ positioning regarding linguistic expertise shifts across interlocutors and time, shaping language learning. Data was collected at four different stages of a 10-week high-intermediate Spanish course, as learners completed four collaborative writing tasks. Posttests, a pretest, and two questionnaires were also administered. The analysis of discursive positioning showed how the HL learner initially enacted the linguistic expert position associated with his heritage status. As experiences accumulated and pre-established...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: cultura study abroad/estudios en el extranjero paisaje lingüístico expresión oral

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Cualquiera que haya estudiado idiomas en un país extranjero ha experimentado no solo la dificultad que supone enfrentarse a una lengua que no se domina, sino también a una cultura y a una ciudad que, en los primeros días de estancia, puede resultar hasta hostil, únicamente por el desconocimiento y lo ajeno del entorno. Concebida básicamente para familiarizarse con este entorno, la actividad que propongo surge, a la vez, como resultado de mi experiencia docente y como estudiante de lenguas extranjeras años atrás.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: marcadores discursivos pragmática registro coloquial propuestas didácticas

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Este trabajo aplica la segmentación en unidades discursivas del modelo Val.Es.Co. en la enseñanza de marcadores del discurso en el aula de E/LE. En concreto, se analizan las diferentes funciones ofrecidas para el marcador discursivo pues, a fin de sistematizarlas en una relación de unidades y posiciones. Ello permite simplificar sus diferentes usos en la lengua oral, constituyendo una herramienta cuya aplicación sea de utilidad para la enseñanza de los marcadores del discurso.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: profesorado factores afectivos creencias y actitudes de los profesores enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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Previous research has certified the interconnection of psycho-affective factors and English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers’ emotions and practices. However, there is insufficient evidence regarding the correlates and determinants of teacher work engagement across cultures. To fill this gap, the present multinational study aimed to investigate the correlations and predicting roles of EFL teachers’ dispositions toward loving pedagogy (DTLP), self-efficacy, emotion regulation, and work engagement. A total of 779 EFL teachers were selected from China, Iran, and Turkey to complete the surveys. The results of confirmatory factor analysis and correlation analysis showed significant relationships among teachers’ DTLP, self-efficacy, emotion regulation, and work engagement. Moreover, multiple regression analysis suggested that teacher...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: uso de la L1 en el aula creencias y actitudes de los profesores formación de profesores enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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The study investigated the beliefs expressed by a sample of 206 Polish and Spanish teacher-trainees about the use of learners’ native language (L1) in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL). Quantitative and qualitative data from a questionnaire revealed considerable differences between the two nationality groups in their beliefs about both medium-oriented and framework-oriented functions of the L1 in an L2 classroom. Moreover, significant differences were found in the participants’ accounts of their prior EFL learning experience in terms of the L1–L2 proportion in teachers’ classroom language use. A possible interpretation of these findings relates trainees’ beliefs to the L2 educational cultures prevalent in different countries, pointing to a contextually-mediated complexity of teacher-trainees’ belief systems. The study adds...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: creación de materiales expresión escrita cognición y procesamiento estudiantes alemanes

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El presente artículo tiene como objetivo exponer cómo y por qué usar los textos redactados por alumnos para diseñar actividades didácticas de E/LE. Para ello se esbozarán en primer lugar los principios cognitivos que subyacen al proceso de expresión escrita y que deben contemplarse al diseñar materiales. En segundo lugar se ofrecerán ejemplos prácticos de actividades creadas íntegramente a partir de redacciones de universitarios alemanes para la práctica de competencias lingüísticas (gramática y léxico). Para concluir se indagarán las posibilidades de tratar contenidos comunicativos y culturales en los materiales creados a partir de las redacciones de alumnos.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos profesorado humor metodología de investigación

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The development of positive psychology in the field of second language acquisition has focused scholarly attention on what helps second language learners thrive and flourish, rather than focusing solely on what hinders their development. A key positive emotion developed within this movement is enjoyment. The present study introduced the conjoint experiment approach, which allows for estimating the causal effects of various factors simultaneously, to validate the influences of learner-external factors (i.e., teacher characteristics and behaviors, peer relations, and task orientation) on learners’ perceived second language classroom enjoyment. A representative sample of 519 Chinese university-level English learners, quota-matched to China’s target learner population in gender, grade level, and geographic region, evaluated systematically...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas study abroad/estudios en el extranjero sociolingüística actitudes lingüísticas

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During study abroad, second language learners encounter real-world language that contrasts with what they have learned. To better support students while abroad, one of the researchers of this study designed explicit instruction around dialects and language variation in the German-speaking world as part of an 8-week summer program in Vienna, Austria and Freiburg, Germany. A qualitative text analysis of questionnaire data collected before, during, and after the program, student diaries, and extemporaneous notes shows that while time abroad in general leads to student growth in their understanding of real-world language use and variation, explicit instruction on dialects allowed students to be better able to make sense of their own experiences with the non-standard varieties. In doing so, they also gained insight into larger...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pragmática materiales audiovisuales actos de habla input

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The present study deals with the effect of audio-visual material for second language (L2) pragmatic learning in the foreign language classroom. More specifically, it analyzes whether being exposed to captioned and non-captioned input in an experimental condition entailing no instruction on pragmatics might have any influence on the learners’ pragmatic performance. To this aim, two intact classes ( N = 31) of learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) at a B1 level were exposed to videos with captions and without captions, respectively. Before and after watching the videos, all the students were asked to carry out a role-play task with situations like those in the videos. A mixed-methods approach was used to analyze the learners’ performance in terms of types and number of strategies to perform speech acts (quantitative) and in...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: corpus tecnología educativa aprendizaje autónomo diferencias individuales

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Mediante esta comunicación pretendemos proponer recursos para explotar en el aula y fuera de ella la utilización de un corpus real basado en los instrumentos que nos ofrece internet en consonancia con los estilos de aprendizaje del alumno.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: ironía prosodia pronunciación pragmática

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El objetivo de este trabajo es hacer una propuesta didáctica que ayude a percibir/producir la entonación irónica a los estudiantes de español como lengua extranjera (ELE). Este trabajo se centrará en los aspectos fónicos, y especialmente en los entonativos (Lahoz Bengoechea, 2012; Padilla García, 2015), pero tendremos en cuenta también otros ingredientes del fenómeno, como el componente pragmático y el componente cultural. Tomando como punto de partida las indicaciones del MCER (2002) y del Plan Curricular del Instituto Cervantes (2007), pensamos que la ironía es un fenómeno comunicativo que, aun siendo compartido por muchas culturas, puede resultar difícil de manejar por los aprendientes de...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación profesorado interacción factores afectivos

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Motivation in language classrooms is often treated as an individual trait, yet periods of disruption reveal how strongly it is shaped through interaction. This study examines how learner and teacher (de)motivation was experienced and enacted during the return to offline English as a foreign language instruction following pandemic-related disruption. Using a convergent mixed-methods design, data were collected from learner and teacher questionnaires, regression analyses, Motivational Identity System-informed domain mapping, and teacher observational accounts. Findings indicate that learners maintained interest in English learning while experiencing moderate cognitive–emotional demotivational strain, suggesting vulnerability rather than pervasive demotivation. In contrast, teachers reported cumulative demotivational pressure arising...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: comprensión lectora vocabulario uso de la L1 en el aula cognición y procesamiento

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The aim of this experiment was to investigate how glossing influences second language (L2)reading comprehension in relation to text difficulty and the two local and global meaning representations. Fifty-eight undergraduate students were asked to read three easy, moderate, and difficult texts and, following each passage, answer twenty comprehension questions targeting local and global concepts in one of the two first-language-glossed and unglossed conditions. Half of the participants in each group were supposed to think aloud while reading. The results revealed a significant difference between the performance of glossed and unglossed groups on comprehension of local concepts in all three difficulty levels. However, the impact of glossing on comprehension of global concepts was significantly influenced by text difficulty. The...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

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

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Peer feedback has been widely used in English as a foreign language (EFL) writing classes, but its effect is highly variable and its quality and validity are often questioned by students as well as teachers. This research aims to explore the effects of teacher intervention on student use of different types of peer feedback and on their self-revision of writing texts. The study employed a quasi-experimental design with two experimental groups receiving either the teacher’s direct correction for erroneous peer feedback or indication of inaccurate peer feedback with symbols and a control group receiving no teacher intervention on peer feedback. One hundred and ten non-English major graduate students in three parallel writing classes participated in the study. The study lasted for one and a half months, during which the participants...

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