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The results of the study that analyzed the criteria used by teachers of Languages in the selection, production and evaluation of Teaching Materials (TM) in their classroom contexts, in different Institutes of Teacher Training of Argentina are presented. The objectives were to investigate assumptions and implicit conceptions when making the selection of teaching materials and analyze production / elaboration and evaluation strategies. A cross-sectional descriptive design was adopted based on a survey and interview study, where 83 teachers of Languages - maternal and foreign - from institutions of Higher Non-University Level, State Management responded. Some conclusions: a) The criteria used to select the TM were accessibility, update, authenticity, complexity, interactivity, relevance, transversality; b) The TM should promote a higher level of student participation; c) Before TM who do not meet the requirements, teachers prepare their TM; d) Intercultural dialogue in the TMs is not always present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Virtual learning is offered to students as part of didactic programs where tasks performed through ICT may not consider the variety of existing learning profiles or styles and turn out to be not sufficient for some of the learners. The study presents the use and profile of the different learning styles applied to foreign language teaching and their interaction with didactic materials in regard to the use of ICT resources and their different applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The European Council has encouraged the learning of languages at very early ages with the purpose of shaping a plurilingual Europe. In Spain, the teaching of English as a Foreign Language (FL) generally starts in the second cycle of Preschool Education (3-6 years old), although there is a lack of agreement about how this early introduction should be done. This research aims at looking for consensus on how English should be taught in preschools. We have completed a qualitative study by using the Delphi technique in which 99 experts have taken sides in the teaching guidelines that would lead towards a successful implementation of the FL in Preschool. Conclusions suggest that experts advocate for a FL teaching similar to the learning of a mother tongue, creating a learning context as natural and as playful as possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La formación de maestros de lenguas extranjeras en Estados Unidos es un tema muy tratado y que ha ganado mucha popularidad en los últimos años dentro de la nación. El empuje por cuantificar el uso de prácticas efectivas ha intensificado el enfoque en estándares y métodos de enseñanza, muchas veces obviando la importancia de la aptitud lingüística que tienen los docentes en el idioma que enseñan. El presente artículo expone realidades sobre la disímil formación de maestros de idiomas de preescolar (K) a duodécimo grado (12) grado en Estados Unidos. Para esto, el autor elucida el contexto de formación docente de maestros de idiomas y los requisitos para enseñar lenguas extranjeras en las escuelas públicas primarias y secundarias de la nación. Además, el artículo expone retos asociados a las prácticas de la formación docente actual y sus implicaciones tanto para educadores como para estudiantes. Asimismo, el autor concluye con interrogantes sobre el futuro de la formación docente en Estados Unidos durante un período donde se acrecienta la demanda por el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras mientras la nación experimenta un declive de profesores de idiomas.

Introduction: comprises an analysis about the directions followed in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Pinar del Rio making use of the pedagogical workshops as an educational form that allows the application of contemporary pedagogic approaches and tendencies with their respective grounds as opposed to the already traditional forms. Objective: To reveal the experiences of the authors in the conception and instrumentation of the pedagogical workshop, from the reflection and the social interaction, as a way of improving the quality of the initial formation and the overcoming of foreign language teachers in the University of Pinar del Rio. Methods: of theempiric level, there was used: experimentation, observation, surveys, interviews, and techniques of self-report and self-evaluation. In the theoretical level, different methods were used for the elaboration of the didactic materials, they were: the historical-logical, the systemic, and modeling. Results: of the authors´ experiences were included in the use of the pedagogical workshop based on reflection and social interaction, their conception, methodology of application and the outcomes in terms of social and personal impact. Conclusions: aspect, it was included that this workshop type accomplishes the objectives for which it has been conceived since it has shown that it offers opportunities so that the participants process input information and solve problems related with the profession, at the same time that the participants practice and use the language naturally and spontaneously, creating in this way a true state of linguistic sensibility. Equally, it contributes to the formation of values by means of the reflection and the social interaction with others, the development of thought, the increase of culture and most of all, a culture of learning is acquired.

Este artículo centrado en conocer acerca de la motivación del alumnado de la Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour por el estudio de español como lengua extranjera se ha servido de la metodología cualitativa (entrevistas abiertas y su posterior análisis). Se han obtenido los siguientes resultados: Existe alta motivación entre el alumnado de dicha universidad por el español, debido a las actitudes y motivaciones del profesorado, y a la cercanía y coincidencia entre la cultura francesa y la española, entre otras. Respecto de las dificultades se señalan el escaso vocabulario relacionado con la vida cotidiana, la complejidad de la conjugación verbal y de la pronunciación y una limitada comprensión de los hablantes autóctonos. Por todo ello, se ha documentado la demanda de afianzar la enseñanza de las competencias comunicativas orales. De esta investigación se puede inferir que existe una importante motivación intrínseca en el alumnado de todas las facultades de esta universidad.

En el aprendizaje de la pronunciación de una lengua extranjera se deben dominar aspectos segmentales y suprasegmentales de la lengua meta, con el fin de alcanzar inteligibilidad en la interacción comunicativa. Esta investigación analizó acústicamente la entonación de oraciones declarativas simples en español (L1) y en inglés (L2) de hispanohablantes venezolanos. Para ello se utilizaron 108 enunciados declarativos simples (48 en español y 48 en inglés), pronunciados por aprendices del inglés como lengua extranjera, y 12 en inglés, producidos por hablantes nativos del inglés americano. Los resultados permitieron evidenciar que la configuración tonal y acentual de ese tipo de oraciones mostró un patrón entonativo descendente con escalonamiento progresivo, además de que se transfieren los rasgos entonativos de su L1 a su L2. Finalmente, esta información constituye insumos importantes para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de la pronunciación del inglés como lengua extranjera.

Los editores presentan el número especial y proporcionan una visión panorámica de los artículos que integran el Número 25 de la Revista Nebrija de Linguistica Aplicada a la Enseñanza de Lenguas.

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The objective of this study was to explore the enactive mastery experiences that seven foreign language teachers have had throughout their academic trajectory and the relation they have with their self-efficacy beliefs in teaching. Bandura's theory (1997) on self-efficacy was used as a theoretical approach. The design used was qualitative of exploratory type; in-depth interviews were conducted with 7 experienced teachers from a Mexican public university. It was found that at the beginning of their trajectory, teachers did not perceive themselves as very effective to teach due to the lack of real practice during their teacher training. Teachers used reflection, training and effort as ways to improve their perceived self-efficacy. The most extensive experience of these teachers has been teaching foreign languages in a university language center. It is concluded that previous experience does influence teachers' self-efficacy beliefs and that these beliefs differ according to the type of subject and the educational level at which they teach. Language proficiency also proved to be an influential factor in self-efficacy beliefs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

is article reports an experience of creating materials to approach a literary work in an advanced English course. It also proposes a refiection on the elements that can be considered in the promotion and development of the intercultural communicative competence (ICC) based on the literature. To do so, a material consisting of 84 activities designed to guide the reading of the novel Americanah by Chimamanda Adichie (2014) was analyzed. e refiections from this analysis expose the need that the teachers study in depth their creation of materials, in order to identify purposes, implicit ideological stances and pedagogical opportunities to promote the ICC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Foreign Language Interactive Didactics is intended for foreign language teachers and would-be teachers since it is an interpretation of the foreign language teaching-learning process is conceived from a reflexive social interaction. This interpretation declares learning based on interactive tasks that provide learners with opportunities to interact meaningfully among them, as a way to develop interactional competence as objective in itself and as a means to obtain communicative competence. Foreign language interactive didactics claims for the unity of reflection and action while learning the language system and using it to communicate, by means of solving problems presented in interactive tasks. It proposes a kind of teaching that is interactive, developmental, collaborative, holist, cognitive, problematizing, reflexive, student centered, humanist, and with a strong affective component that empower the influencing psychological factors in learning. This conception appears in the book: DIDÁCTICA INTERACTIVA DE LENGUAS (2007 y 2010). The book is used as a textbook for the subject of Didactics that is part of the curriculum in language teachers’ formation of all the pedagogical sciences universities, in Spanish teachers’ formation who are not Spanish speaking people at Havana University, and also as a reference book for postgraduate courses, master’s and doctorate’ s degrees.

La investigación local sobre la práctica pedagógica de profesores en formación de lenguas extranjeras ha girado mayoritariamente en torno al papel de la reflexión. Este artículo de investigación propone que es necesario comprender las arquitecturas de práctica que se construyen socialmente en este contexto. El estudio se enfoca en la dimensión social de los modos de saber, hacer y de relacionarse de 184 participantes que diligenciaron un formato de autoevaluación de donde se extrajeron eventos narrativos. El análisis de los eventos narrativos se desarrolló, metodológicamente, desde la perspectiva de la teoría fundamentada. Los hallazgos ilustran tentativamente, entre otros, que una arquitectura plausible de práctica se manifiesta en la intersección de marcos de interpretación propios no siempre reconocidos en la literatura, en posicionamientos vehiculados a través de la mirada del otro y de sus disposiciones para enfrentar contextos diversos de enseñanza y en la acción conjunta aunada al logro de capital social del profesor en formación de lenguas extranjeras.

Este artículo describe el desarrollo y los hallazgos finales de un proyecto de investigación que consistió en la creación de una comunidad de práctica (CP), conformada por un grupo de docentes de lenguas extranjeras, interesados en aprender y construir conocimiento sobre los aspectos didácticos e instrumentales para la integración de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) como herramienta de apoyo a su práctica docente. Los miembros del grupo núcleo trabajaron durante 2 semestres en la fundamentación teórica, la creación de los materiales audio-visuales y el diseño e implementación de las actividades dinamizadoras para incentivar y promover la participación de los demás miembros de la comunidad. Los hallazgos muestran un impacto positivo en el interés y apropiación de las TIC en los miembros del núcleo y algunos de los miembros activos. Un desafío constante de la comunidad fue el de integrar a más miembros del grupo periférico en las actividades presenciales y virtuales.

La presente entrevista versa sobre la enseñanza del español en Brasil: presente, pasado y futuro, con dos investigadores claves que estudiaron la situación del español en Brasil en distintas publicaciones a lo largo de varios años. En ella, los profesores Francisco Moreno Fernández y Gretel Eres Fernández discuten el estado actual del español en ese país, el cual no afecta solo a las fronteras brasileñas sino que puede tener un impacto considerable en otras dimensiones de la expansión y consolidación del español. En este sentido, creemos que es un tema de interés en el ámbito de ELE y por ello nos gustaría que otras personas pudieran conocer esta situación de las manos de dos expertos.

Desde la publicación de Shield y Kukulska-Hulme (2008), primer monográfico sobre aprendizaje de lenguas mediante tecnología móvil (conocido en inglés con el acrónimo MALL: Mobile Assisted Language Learning), son muchos los cambios que han afectado a esta modalidad de aprendizaje de idiomas. Poco a poco, los dispositivos móviles se han ido convirtiendo en uno de los mejores aliados del alumno en el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras, pues le permiten estudiarlas en cualquier momento y en cualquier lugar. En este número especial de la revista se detallan los avances más recientes en el área de MALL, ejemplificados mediante la evolución de los resultados presentados sobre esta área de investigación (1) en las últimas reuniones del Special Interest Group on MALL de la asociación EuroCALL; y (2) en los propios congresos de esta misma asociación celebrados en los últimos tres años. En él se mencionan asimismo las tendencias actuales en el desarrollo de esta incipiente disciplina y sus recursos (aplicaciones para dispositivos móviles o apps, principalmente) y las principales dudas y objeciones que plantea en el ámbito más general de CALL (del inglés,Computer Assisted Language Learning). En conjunto, este monográfico muestra que, en determinadas condiciones, el aprendizaje de lenguas mediante aplicaciones móviles puede ser tan eficaz o más como otros métodos y técnicas de enseñanza, tanto en la modalidad de aprendizaje a distancia o autónoma como en las modalidades presencial y combinada. También muestra algunas de las pequeñas sombras de MALL en la actualidad, que tendrán que ser despejadas en posibles trabajos futuros.

Although assessment experts have been researching the relationship between the different types of tasks and their level of difficulty, this process of analysis should be pursued further in order to acquire a more accurate vision of the variables involved. In this article we study the three types of tasks most frequently used in the different models of oral exams (one-to-one interview based on a photo, one-to-one interview based on a comic strip and a dialogue in pairs). In order to carry out this study we assessed 244 pupils from the second year of Bachillerato belonging to nine different schools and having an A2 level of English. When contrasting the 3 types of tasks, our aim was to analyse the amount and complexity of the oral production, namely the use of linkers, by means of statistical tests of homogeneity and specificity.

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Research on interculturality and initial foreign language (FL) teacher education has focused mainly on the development of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) and few studies address said topic from a critical standpoint that might allow us to think about other ways of teaching and learning (T&L) a language. This article describes a research that sought to understand what intercultural perspective is included in three initial FL teacher education programs in the city of Bogotá, Colombia. The study is framed within a qualitative research logic, with a mixed focus and a multilevel concurrent nested design, which is characterized by the simultaneous gathering and analysis of qualitative and quantitative information. From the study, it is evident that the three undergraduate programs promote a reflexive and functional model, which establishes teacher education objectives, knowledge, and specific strategies, but also challenges to be undertaken. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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