Tipo: libro

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas adquisición de segundas lenguas formación de profesores

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A major challenge in language teacher education is finding materials that clearly articulate the common ground among theoretical concepts, research findings, and classroom practices. This book aims to help educators make a direct connection between second language acquisition (SLA) principles and the reality of language classrooms. Rather than trying to address every aspect of SLA and pedagogy, which would result in an overwhelming amount of information, the goal of this book is to help world language educators understand how they can develop materials or implement classroom strategies that are informed by core principles of SLA. This book was authored with language educators in mind, first and foremost. Key concepts are...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: estudios de género enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas vocabulario concordancia de género

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Recent findings indicate that native speakers (L1) use grammatical gender marking on articles to facilitate the processing of upcoming nouns. Conversely, adult second language (L2) learners for whom grammatical gender is absent in their first language appear to need near-native proficiency to behave like native speakers. The question addressed here is whether sensitivity to grammatical gender in L2 learners of Spanish is modulated by the cognate status of nouns due to their heightened parallel orthographic, phonological, morpho-syntactic and semantic activation. Additionally, the role of transparent and non-transparent word-final gender marking cues was examined because past studies have shown that native speakers of Spanish are sensitive to differences in gender transparency. Participants were English learners of Spanish and Spanish...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: lexicografía vocabulario enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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El estudio que se presenta a continuación es de carácter interdisciplinar y en él, confluyen dos ámbitos del conocimiento: la lexicografía y la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras. Este enfoque se aprecia claramente en el objetivo principal de la investigación: plantear un modelo de crítica lexicográfica destinado al análisis y la evaluación de las herramientas de consulta que se emplean habitualmente en el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje de L2. De esta forma, el estudio ayudará a docentes y discentes de L2 a seleccionar el diccionario que mejor se adapte a sus necesidades y, además, aportará datos útiles para el desarrollo de la teoría y la práctica lexicográfica. Para su realización, se han establecido dos partes claramente diferenciadas: la primera es de naturaleza teórica y en ella, se analiza qué es la crítica...

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Tipo: libro

Temas: competencia intercultural cultura enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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This book provides a contemporary and critical examination of the theoretical and pedagogical impact of Michael Byram's pioneering work on intercultural communicative competence and intercultural citizenship within the field of language education and beyond. The chapters address important theoretical and empirical work on the teaching, learning, and assessment of intercultural learning, and highlight how individual language educators and communities of practice enact intercultural learning in locally appropriate ways. The book offers comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible knowledge for researchers, teachers, teacher-trainers and students.

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Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
Contributors
External Reviewers

Mike Fleming: Foreword

Irina Golubeva, Manuela Wagner and Troy...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas metodología de investigación profesorado formación de profesores

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Teacher training programs and models recognize research engagement as a key competency of qualified professionals. However, despite current calls from scholars to bridge the divide between research and practice in second language teaching, little is known about how teaching professionals engage with existing research or carry out their own research. This study is the first to address this issue with regards to Spanish Language Teaching (SLT) professionals, aiming to understand if and how they engage with and in research, and identify what they would need to increase their engagement. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of online survey responses from 1,675 SLT professionals from 84 countries show that research engagement is dependent on the job description. Coding of freetext responses into eight themes (motivation, prestige,...

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Tipo: libro

Temas: tecnología educativa enseñanza en línea e híbrida formación de profesores

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This Element is a practical guide for language teachers intending to upgrade their online teaching. During the COVID-19 pandemic many teachers were forced to move their teaching online without proper preparation and support. This has led to frustration and stress, and sometimes decisions based not on sound pedagogy but on technological constraints, requirements and opportunities. To balance this negative experience, a research-based, pedagogy-focussed approach has been taken in this volume: step-by-step, teachers are shown how to make decisions about the choice and usage of online tools, how to adapt their pedagogy and teaching strategies to fit with online learning environments, and how to create a positive learning experience for their students. In six sections this Element takes teachers from epistemological considerations to...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: expresión escrita enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas tecnología educativa

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En los países más desarrollados, la tecnología digital ha sustituido de modo casi completo a la analógica en los ámbitos de producción del discurso escrito (correspondencia personal, comercial y empresarial, textos académicos y científicos, publicaciones editoriales) y su transmisión (correo electrónico, internet); sólo en su recepción sigue manteniéndose vivo el soporte analógico (papel, libro, revista), si bien también han aumentado los formatos de comunicación on line. Quizá nunca desaparezcan determinados documentos como certificados, testamentos o contratos con firmas manuscritas, porque ofrecen prestaciones irremplazables "¡aunque en España ya exista legislación sobre sus...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: pronunciación creencias y actitudes de los profesores práctica docente fonética

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The goal of this work was to explore the training, classroom practices, and beliefs related to pronunciation of instructors of languages other than English. While several investigations of this type have been conducted in English as a second/foreign language contexts, very little is known about the beliefs and practices of teachers of languages other than English. It is unknown whether recent shifts to focusing on intelligibility, as advocated by some pronunciation scholars, are borne out in foreign language classrooms. To fill this gap, instructors of Spanish (n = 127), French (n = 89), and German (n = 80) teaching basic language courses (i.e. the first four semesters) at 28 large (e.g. more than 15,000 students), public universities in the United States completed an online survey reporting on their training, classroom practices, and...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: feedback/retroalimentación enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario vocabulario tecnología educativa

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The benefits of corrective feedback (CF) for second language (L2) learning are empirically attested, and multiple factors mediating CF effectiveness have been investigated. However, the timing of oral CF has received less attention given most research examines corrections provided immediately after an error. Delayed CF also warrants investigation; it occurs naturally in L2 classrooms and may be an appealing alternative in online learning contexts. Existing CF timing research shows either no significant differences between immediate and delayed CF, or advantages for immediate CF. To elucidate mixed findings, more CF timing studies are needed, especially those considering the effects of factors such as CF type, linguistic target and communication mode. Regarding communication mode, the effect of CF timing on errors made during text-...

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Tipo: libro

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: cultura competencia intercultural enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas

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The central aim of language teaching is typically to prepare learners to communicate through the language learnt. However, much current language teaching theory and practice is based on a simplistic view of communication that fails to match the multilingual and intercultural reality of the majority of second language (L2) use. This Element examines the relationship between language and culture through an L2 in intercultural and transcultural communication. It puts forward the argument that we need to go beyond communicative competence in language teaching and focus instead on intercultural and transcultural awareness. Implications for pedagogic practice are explored including intercultural and transcultural language education.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction — The Role of Intercultural and Transcultural...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación factores afectivos práctica docente educación superior

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The current study investigates how foreign language enjoyment (FLE), foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) and attitude/motivation (AM) of 360 learners of English, German, French and Spanish in a Kuwaiti university was shaped over the course of one semester by three teacher behaviours: frequency of using the foreign language (FL) in class, predictability and frequency of joking. Linear mixed modelling revealed a positive relationship between the three teacher behaviours and FLE as well as AM, but no significant relationship emerged with FLCA. Multiple comparison analyses showed that levels of FLE dropped significantly among students whose teacher joked very infrequently and infrequently. It thus seems that the absence of teacher jokes had a delayed cumulative effect on FLE. No interaction effects were found with time for FLCA and...

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Tipo: libro

Metodología: trabajo teórico

Temas: tecnología educativa enseñanza/aprendizaje de lenguas enseñanza en línea e híbrida

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Parece evidente que, ante "el tsunami digital" que han vivido "y aún están viviendo" la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de lenguas, quienes actuamos en este sector de la educación (administraciones, centros, docentes, estudiantes, familias, editoriales, etc.) necesitamos abstraernos por un momento de esa vorágine para entender la amplitud de los cambios que se están produciendo, para evaluar su impacto y, sobre todo, para reflexionar sobre cómo deseamos que evolucione la enseñanza de las lenguas y el papel de la tecnología.
Y digo "deseamos" porque también parece evidente que esa gran ola digital ha cambiado nuestras prácticas de manera abrupta y que todos hemos respondido...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: expresión oral géneros textuales interacción pragmática

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Cada tipo de interacción oral requiere una gestión diferenciada de los turnos de habla y también el uso de unidades distintas de la lengua. Esta variedad discursiva y lingüística se practica en la clase de español como lengua extranjera (LE/L2) para su aprendizaje, pero no se sabe de forma fehaciente con qué resultados. Esta investigación es pionera al comparar tres tipos de actividades de interacción oral en el aula de español LE/L2 (relatos, discusiones y negociaciones) con el objetivo de conocer cómo inician los estudiantes su turno...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: motivación factores afectivos metodología de investigación

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At the turn of the new millennium, in an article published in Language Teaching Research in 2000, Dörnyei and Kormos proposed that "active learner engagement is a key concern" for all instructed language learning. Since then, language engagement research has increased exponentially. In this article, we present a systematic review of 20 years of language engagement research. To ensure robust coverage, we searched 21 major journals on second language acquisition (SLA) and applied linguistics and identified 112 reports satisfying our inclusion criteria. The results of our analysis of these reports highlighted the adoption of heterogeneous methods and conceptual frameworks in the language engagement literature, as well as indicating a need to refine the definitions and operationalizations of engagement in both quantitative and qualitative...

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Tipo: capítulo

Metodología: revisión bibliográfica

Temas: sintaxis norma y estandarización gramática variación y variedades del español

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We present a selective review of studies on Romance languages wherein acceptability experiments played an important role in advancing our knowledge of the grammars of particular linguistic varieties and, by extension, furthering our knowledge of human language and linguistic theory. First, we examine recent studies on word order in wh-questions across varieties of Spanish. Next, we examine the value of acceptability experiments in the study of infrequent structures (e.g. clitic left-dislocation, focus fronting). We highlight the importance of data triangulation by examining studies of information focus in Spanish, emphasizing the impact that methodological choices can have on results. We also examine control and raising structures in Brazilian Portuguese, where conflicting results have required innovative methodological approaches....

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