Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: metodología de investigación reflexión docente práctica docente educación superior

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This article delves into the concept of ‘puzzles’ in exploratory practice (EP), an innovative branch of inclusive practitioner research. EP encourages teachers and learners to define their own agendas (i.e. puzzles) to explore their practice. It has been argued that puzzles are most effective when framed as why questions (e.g. Why do we cheat? ) rather than other types of questions. This is because why questions are believed to assist practitioners in gaining a deeper understanding of their practice. However, I have observed that learners often generate other forms of questions, such as what or how . Additionally, exploring a why question did not always lead to a deeper understanding. To address...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: tiempos verbales pretérito perfecto compuesto pretérito perfecto simple pretérito imperfecto

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El objetivo de esta experiencia práctica es presentar y compartir un conjunto de actividades comunicativas para abordar la enseñanza de los tiempos del pasado: pretérito perfecto, indefinido, imperfecto y pluscuamperfecto.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos aprendizaje colaborativo enseñanza en línea e híbrida expresión escrita

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This study examines the evolution and regulation of group-level enjoyment of online collaborative language learning. Three Chinese undergraduate learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) collaborated to finish a series of English writing tasks via an online group enabled by WeChat, a popular social instant messaging app in Chinese-speaking communities. The data were collected in three sessions over a single semester using an idiodynamic approach for participants’ ratings of enjoyment intensity and stimulated recall interviews for participants’ descriptions of emotion regulation types. The data were analysed using deductive qualitative thematic analysis and quantitative descriptive analysis...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación factores afectivos enfoque por tareas expresión oral

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Despite extensive research in task-based language learning, the role of learners’ motivational dispositions in their task experience and performance has remained underexplored. To help bridge that gap, this study investigated the relationships between second language (L2) learners’ chronic regulatory focus and their oral task emotions and performance. One hundred and thirty-three high school students studying English as a foreign language in China completed a regulatory focus questionnaire, an English proficiency self-rating questionnaire, an oral opinion task, and a post-task questionnaire measuring their task anxiety and enjoyment. Multiple regression results showed that the learners’ chronic promotion focus positively predicted their task enjoyment, which, in turn, predicted their oral task performance. In addition, the...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: colocaciones enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario análisis contrastivo corpus

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En este trabajo, empezamos por defender la importancia del conocimiento de colocaciones para los estudiantes de ELE. La falta del conocimiento puede provocar frases que pueden ser gramaticalmente correctas pero poco naturales como lluvia pesada. Aprendiendo colocaciones se amplía el vocabulario y se mejora la capacidad de expresión. Sin embargo, en cada lengua existen numerosas palabras que forman una gran cantidad de colocaciones, por lo que es provechoso buscar una estrategia que facilite el aprendizaje de estas. Considerando que la analogía que existe entre el español y el inglés ayuda a mejorar la enseñanza de la colocación, hemos establecido un material docente basado en esta analogía. El...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: dramatización identidad motivación enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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The second-language motivational self system has not only served to explain language learning motivation in a wide range of contexts; it has also offered the potential for guiding motivational interventions in institutional learning contexts in particular. Although multiple studies have trialed interventions designed to train learners in creating powerful visions of their ideal second-language self, such approaches have not only shown varied success, but have either ignored the second-language learning experience component or limited its construct to attitudes to the second-language learning process. In contrast, the current study, adopting a broader conception of the second-language learning...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas inteligencia artificial ChatGPT expresión oral

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This quasi-experimental mixed-methods study examined how ChatGPT-mediated rehearsal activities influence English as a second language (ESL) learners’oral proficiency and technology acceptance. Sixty-eight undergraduates were divided into artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted and teacher-led rehearsal groups over 16 weeks. Using repeated-measures analysis and thematic interviews, the results showed observable improvement in fluency and pronunciation among ChatGPT users (Hedges’ g = .72, p .01), while accuracy gains remained modest. Technology acceptance model analysis indicated that perceived usefulness and enjoyment were key predictors of engagement, aligning with sociocultural theory’s emphasis on scaffolding and self-regulation. Qualitative data revealed iterative feedback and reduced anxiety as mediating processes. The findings...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión oral factores afectivos diferencias individuales canciones

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One of the main reasons for studying a foreign language is communicating with others, but many students do not feel confidently enough when trying to develop their speaking skills. Among adolescents’ frequent activities are that of listening to music while paying attention to song lyrics. We hypothesize that these musical experiences could influence their speaking skills. The present study aims to consider different factors that could influence students’ speaking proficiency. Among these factors, students’ emotional understanding, their willingness to communicate in a FL and their musical experience are considered. One hundred and twenty-four students of English as a foreign language (EFL) in the fourth year of Secondary Education from three different high schools in Spain took part in the study. Oral data were collected through...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: competencia intercultural telecolaboración e intercambios virtuales tecnología educativa interacción

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En estas últimas décadas estamos asistiendo a una revolución tecnológica que ha cambiado nuestra forma de percibir y enfrentarnos al mundo que nos rodea. Todos los aspectos de nuestra vida cotidiana se han visto afectados por la aparición de Internet y el acceso masivo al ordenador personal, herramientas que han facilitado y agilizado las transacciones comerciales, las relaciones comunicativas, la investigación científica, etc.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: literatura cultura propuestas didácticas materiales didácticos

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En el momento actual, ya casi nadie parece poner en duda la utilidad de los textos literarios en la enseñanza y aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera. En el presente artículo, utilizamos un conjunto de textos literarios situados en la ciudad de Valencia (España), con lo cuales proponemos al alumnado actividades que mejoren, por un lado, sus destrezas lingüísticas y, por otro, les ayuden a apreciar las características del texto literario.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación comprensión lectora expresión oral educación superior

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This study examines a potential tension in the application of self-determination theory to an extensive reading-enhanced speaking course in an English-as-a-foreign-language context. Although extensive reading is widely assumed to foster autonomous motivation by satisfying learners’ basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness, its implementation within formal instructional settings often involves mandatory reading quotas and graded components that may introduce controlling pressures. Drawing on data from 142 Japanese university English majors enrolled in a year-long extensive reading-integrated speaking course, this study investigated changes in motivational regulation and basic psychological needs satisfaction using Bayesian analyses. Results revealed strong evidence for increases in all three basic...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: storytelling/narración enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario enseñanza a niños educación primaria y secundaria

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Storytelling is a well-established literary practice in language classrooms. However, approaches influencing its effectiveness and efficiency have rarely been investigated. This study compared the effects of three storytelling approaches on the vocabulary acquisition and response patterns of third-grade students of English as a foreign language (EFL). The storytelling approaches we considered are commonly used in schools, including storytelling alone (S), storytelling with word focus (S+W), and storytelling with activities (S+A). Our research comprised a three-week pilot study and a nine-week main study. For both studies, a pretest–posttest design involving a delayed test was used. Video recordings were also captured to facilitate the categorization of in-class response patterns. Results indicated that storytelling alone achieved the...

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Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: dramatización literatura expresión oral pronunciación

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This article intends to add to the rising discussion related to the employment of authentic plays and drama within a high school compulsory curriculum for enhancing learners’ foreign language (L2) oral skills. In particular, it examines the pedagogical use of authentic contemporary plays for developing learners’ L2 oral production in terms of (1) complexity – syntactic and mean length of AS-units (MLAS) and (2) accuracy – global and pronunciation accuracy. For this purpose, a class of 10 final year high school students with a lower-intermediate to upper-intermediate level of language in an Italian context was exposed longitudinally to a blended-drama approach – the use of literary play scripts,...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: colocaciones literatura cultura estudios de género

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Este artículo presenta una unidad didáctica de Lengua Castellana y Literatura, que se trabaja en el Aula de Acogida de un centro de secundaria con un grupo de alumnado extranjero con un nivel B1. Concretamente, se trabajan las colocaciones amorosas aparecidas en diversas poesías de Miguel de Cervantes, mediante un conjunto de actividades guiadas y desde un enfoque comunicativo. Posteriormente, se comparan con similares construcciones en productos culturales actuales —en este caso, con cuestionarios de revistas juveniles que giran en torno al amor—, con lo que se comprueba que muchas de las actuales concepciones sobre las relaciones amorosas tienen un bagaje histórico y temporal, construido bajo...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: aprendizaje colaborativo aprendizaje basado en proyectos expresión escrita motivación

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Collaborative writing is a pedagogical activity increasingly used in second language education. Despite the increased research on L2 students’ participation in collaborative writing, scant attention has been paid to student engagement in project-based collaborative writing and the possible engagement changes. This article reports on a longitudinal case study investigating the changes in student engagement of a group of five Chinese EFL undergraduates in project-based collaborative writing. The analysis of the data gathered by observations of group interactions, interviews, and student texts reveals three patterns of engagement changes: from active collaborators to ‘team escapers’, from a supporter to a ‘free rider’, and unchanged dedicated writers. The findings are discussed concerning the factors that could account for the engagement...

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