Tipo: libro

Temas: libro vocabulario

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Spanish Vocabulary Learning in Meaning-Oriented Instruction is the first comprehensive overview of current research and instructional practices into Spanish vocabulary acquisition through the lens of Meaning-Oriented Instruction (MOI).

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• Introduction: Meaning and Vocabulary: Two Key Elements of Spanish Language Teaching
  Joe Barcroft and Javier Muñoz-Basols
• 1. Identifying Target Spanish Vocabulary: Issues of Regional Variation
  Manuel Díaz-Campos and Laura Merino
• 2. Input, Tasks, and Processing Specificity in Spanish Vocabulary Learning
  Joe Barcroft
• 3. Incidental Learning of L2 Spanish Vocabulary
  María Pilar Agustín-Llach
• 4. Acquisition of Idiomatic Language in L2 Spanish
  Frank Boers and Javier Muñoz-Basols
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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo gramática cognitiva

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Este artículo presenta una reflexión sobre el papel central de dos paradigmas de la teoría lingüística actual en los estudios de adquisición/aprendizaje de ELE/L2 y su operatividad en la enseñanza. Tanto la Gramática Generativa (GG) como la Gramática Cognitiva (GC) son modelos lingüísticos de corte mentalista, pero sus postulados sobre la relación entre la cognición humana y el conocimiento lingüístico de la lengua no nativa son, en muchos casos, opuestos y, por tanto, conducen a diferentes implicaciones para una gramática pedagógica. A lo largo del artículo consideraremos también el modo en el que pueden llegar a ser complementarios. Aunque la GC ha tenido mayor difusión y aplicación en el aula, la GG actual puede...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo investigación

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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

Temas: artículo evaluación

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This classroom-based action research (CBAR) corroborated our belief in the valuable role rubrics play in a tertiary L2 writing context where English is the medium of instruction. The three-stage CBAR involved ongoing discussions between us, two writing teacher-researchers, as we adapted our teaching and assessment strategies to explore the potential of rubrics as formative tools. This study confirmed the proactive role rubrics could play in teaching writing and promoting successful partnerships between teachers and students during the assessment process. The multifaceted function of rubrics as driver of change in practitioners? approaches to teaching and assessing writing as well as a tool that enables students to take ownership of the different stages of their writing was a major finding of our study.

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo ciencia cognitiva

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Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field of researchers from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and anthropology who seek to understand the mind. In this regular American Educator column, we consider findings from this field that are strong and clear enough to merit classroom application.

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The teacher presents a strong, coherent lesson in which a set of significant facts is clearly connected to a reasonable conclusion. But, at...

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Temas: artículo ciencia cognitiva

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Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field of researchers from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and anthropology who seek to understand the mind. In this regular American Educator column, we consider findings from this field that are strong and clear enough to merit classroom application.

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Very often, students will think they understand a body of material. Believing that they know it, they stop trying to learn more. But, come test time, it turns out they really don't know the material. Can cognitive science tell us anything about why students are commonly...

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Temas: artículo ciencia cognitiva

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Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field of researchers from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and anthropology who seek to understand the mind. In this regular American Educator column, we consider findings from this field that are strong and clear enough to merit classroom application.

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It is difficult to overstate the value of practice. For a new skill to become automatic or for new knowledge to become long-...

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Tipo: libro

Temas: libro tercera lengua

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This book contributes to emerging research on third language acquisition (TLA) and pinpoints the main factors characterising TLA as a different process and area of study from second language acquisition. Moving beyond the dichotomous conception of monolingualism and bilingualism, it proposes a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to studying acquisition of a third or additional language. It presents readers with a practical guide to understanding how these languages are processed, learned and taught and addresses the cognitive, linguistic and affective factors which make multilingual learning and teaching a complex and unique phenomenon. It also emphasises the important role of teachers as knowledge generators. Through various examples of multilingual education practices, it highlights how fundamental teachers are as bridges...

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Tipo: artículo

Temas: artículo investigación

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The imagination effect occurs when students learn better from imagining concepts and procedures rather than from studying them. Cognitive load theory explains the effect by better use of available working memory resources and increased productive, intrinsic cognitive load. The effect has been found in numerous empirical studies. However, in the majority of studies demonstrating the effect, visual/spatial information has been used: the type of information that is believed to be easy for imagining. The reported two experiments investigated if an imagination effect could be obtained using verbal information in the area of learning a second language. The results indicated that while textual material was expectedly more difficult for learning than diagrammatic material, asking learners to imagine textual material did improve performance....

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Tipo: libro

Temas: libro gramática

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El léxico-gramática del español ofrece una aproximación alternativa al estudio de la gramática avanzada del español.

Este libro brinda al estudiante un enfoque auténtico y contextualizado del uso del español, basándose en datos provenientes de corpus de español-L1 y L2 junto a la investigación lingüística a fin de describir las características léxico-gramaticales fundamentales de la lengua y su variación. Cada capítulo incluye actividades guiadas para que los estudiantes puedan realizar búsquedas en estos corpus con el propósito de llegar a conclusiones fundamentadas en evidencias empíricas sobre cómo los aprendices de varios niveles de competencia usan ciertos elementos léxico-gramaticales.

Este libro representa un recurso ideal para los estudiantes de la gramática avanzada del español a nivel de pregrado y posgrado....

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