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Temas: artículo enseñanza de español en China

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With the ongoing advancement of foreign language education in China, Spanish has gained increasing attention at the secondary level. As a pilot site for the New Gaokao reform, Shanghai implemented the National Matriculation Spanish Test (Shanghai) as an example of foreign language assessment reform. This study adopts a qualitative descriptive approach, analysing official documents and representative test tasks to examine the test's design and assessment framework. Results indicate that the test aligns with the CEFR B1 level and uses integrated, task-based formats that demonstrate an adequate degree of authenticity, reliability, and validity. The test has exerted a positive washback effect on high school Spanish...

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Temas: artículo ansiedad

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Esta investigación se centra en la ansiedad en la producción oral en estudiantes multilingües de español como lengua extranjera o segunda (LE/L2). En el estudio se comparó la ansiedad según el nivel de competencia de español (A1-C1), teniendo en cuenta la etapa educativa: 178 estudiantes de secundaria y 71 de universidad y el género. Asimismo, a partir de la escala de ansiedad general FLCAS, se compararon los cuatro componentes de ansiedad: (1) ansiedad comunicativa, (2) ansiedad ante los exámenes, (3) actitudes negativas hacia el aprendizaje y (4) ansiedad ante los procesos y situaciones de aprendizaje del aula. Los resultados indicaron mayor ansiedad en los niveles de competencia bajos (A1-B1). En concordancia con...

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Temas: artículo enseñanza de español en Estados Unidos

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This article chronicles the teaching and learning of Spanish in the United States (US) preschool through college (preK-16) from the 1800s to the present day and beyond. National and local policies, initiatives, and practices are reviewed as well as program and curricular models and methodologies at each educational level: pre-kindergarten through elementary school; junior high, middle, and high school; college and university. From the 1800s until the 1980s, teaching and learning Spanish was steeped in tradition, incorporating predominantly grammar translation and reading great works of literature. Some exceptions to instruction included the Berlitz method and the audiolingual methods. An enrollment crisis in the 1970s propelled change in instructional delivery. These innovations were guided by research that then informed the creation...

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