Non-Verbal Categories. Analysis of an Galician Oral Narrative

Based on the concept of the triple basic structure of human communication by Poyatos (1994a, 1994b) and on the analytical and theoretical implications that derive from this, the present paper conceives the human communication as an indivisible whole in which verbal communication can not be separated from body behavior. This paper analyzes nonverbal categories used in oral communication. The corpus consists of an oral narration in Galician from which we highlighted certain kinemes (minimum units of body movement with meaning) by using the model proposed by Bouvet (2001), in order to explain the non-verbal categories with examples taken from said recordings.

Concept maps as a tool to analyze the ideas of teacher training students regarding what to teach on human nutrition in Primary Education

Concept maps are a technique used to obtain a visual representation of a person's ideas about a concept or a set of related concepts. Specifically, in this paper, through a qualitative methodology, we analyze the concept maps proposed by 52 groups of teacher training students in order to find out the characteristics of the maps and the degree of adequacy of the contents with regard to the teaching of human nutrition in the 3rd cycle of primary education. The participants were enrolled in the Teacher Training Degree majoring in Primary Education, and the data collection was carried out through a training activity under the theme of what to teach about Science in Primary School? The results show that the maps are a useful tool for working in teacher education as they allow organizing, synthesizing, and communicating what students know. Moreover, through this work, it has been possible to see that future teachers have acceptable skills for representing the concepts/ideas in a concept map, although the level of adequacy of concepts/ideas about human nutrition and its relations is usually medium or low. These results are a wake-up call for teacher training, both initial and ongoing, because they shows the inability to change priorities as far as the selection of content is concerned.

Legal Translation from English to Spanish in the Classroom: Problems when Translating Standard Formulas of Expression

The purpose of this paper is to identify problems when translating standard formulas of expression in English to Spanish legal translation. To achieve the goal, a total of 250 Spanish translations were analyzed of 10 sentences from legal texts in English. The degree of difficulty posed by the translation of these formulas is confirmed by the results obtained, which is related not so much to the intrinsic meaning of the words that compose them, but to their contextual meaning. An eclectic approach that combines discourse analysis with contrastive linguistics is proposed, and some specific didactic guidelines are indicated to facilitate the translation teaching of these standard formulas of expression. Lexical interpretation and contextual recreation allow the apprentice translator to make progress with the translation of these phrases and to improve his/her attitude when facing them to achieve a successful semantic and contextual interpretation, that is to say, getting the closest natural equivalent while respecting the genius of the language.

Efectos de la enseñanza interdisciplinaria en la educación ambiental sobre los conocimientos, valores y actitudes ambientales de estudiantes de segundo ciclo básico (Los Ángeles, Región del Biobío, Chile)

Debido a la necesidad de implementar metodologías efectivas para la formación de ciudadanos con conciencia ambiental, se planteó esta investigación con el objetivo de evaluar el efecto de la enseñanza interdisciplinaria en la Educación Ambiental, sobre los conocimientos, valores y actitudes ambientales, de estudiantes de sexto curso básico de un establecimiento municipal de la ciudad de Los Ángeles, en Chile. Se relaciona la Educación Ambiental con las asignaturas Lenguaje-Comunicación y Matemática. Los instrumentos de medición, validados por un comité de expertos y sometidos a un análisis de fiabilidad. Se aplicaron antes y después de la intervención, permitiendo así medir el grado de cambio en conocimientos, valores y actitudes ambientales en los distintos tratamientos, los cuales fueron analizados estadísticamente por medio de tests no paramétricos. Los resultados indican que un grado mayor de interdisciplinariedad genera mejores conocimientos, valores y actitudes ambientales, por lo que se recomienda implementar estrategias interdisciplinarias en el aula al momento de realizar Educación Ambiental.