Léxico disponible de alumnos rumanos que aprenden español como lengua extranjera en centros escolares bilingües rumano-españoles

Programa de doctorado: Lengua española y lingüística general

Research and theory driven insights: ten suggestions for L2 reading instruction

[EN]Research and theory on second language reading has reached heightened dimensions in recent years. It is through reading that learners access much information concerning the target language and culture, and consequently reading is an important part of almost all language programs across stages of acquisition. The purpose of this article is to offer informed suggestions for the foreign language instructor of reading. The ideas given in this paper constitute a collaborative project that developed as part of a graduate seminar on L2 Reading and Writing taught at Washington University in St. Louis.

Teaching and learning english phonetics and phonology in the EHEA through design and creation of audiovisual material at the ULPGC

[ES]In this paper we describe the procedure followed in the design and recording of a set of videos for teaching and learning ‘English phonetics and phonology’, a second-year undergraduate course at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The student’s L1 is Spanish. Two different types of technological support were used: screencast and Powerpoint® presentations. The traditional whiteboard together with the lecturer’s presence also contributed both to the integrated learning of certain acoustic/articulatory aspects of the course contents and to the use of specific software for speech analysis. This video production owns the advantage of being an interactive and autonomous tool which favours a continuous learning process on the student’s side.

Tradición e innovación en los recursos docentes para las enseñanzas lingüisticas: experiencias en la Facultad de Filología

[ES]En este trabajo compartimos nuestras experiencias como docentes de materias lingüísticas en los dos Grados que se imparten en la Facultad de Filología de la ULPGC, el Grado en Lenguas Modernas (GLM) y el Grado en Lengua Española y Literaturas Hispánicas (GLEyLH). Nuestras asignaturas son de distinta índole pero de naturaleza complementaria, y representan dos tipos diferentes de enseñanza lingüística. Una de ellas, Inglés III, persigue el desarrollo de destrezas propio de la enseñanza del inglés como lengua extranjera (Reading, Writing, Listening & Speaking). La otra, Pragmática de la lengua inglesa, aborda de manera teórico-práctica el estudio del uso del lenguaje en su contexto, una vez que los estudiantes han completado su formación en esta lengua Tras comentar el tipo de actividades que realizamos en el aula, resaltamos la necesidad de combinar distintos tipos de recursos y metodologías para garantizar el éxito del proceso formativo de nuestros alumnos.

Teaching and learning stance in specialized English for computing. A corpus linguistics approach

[EN]The use of large corpora in the study of languages is a well established tradition. In the same vein, scholarship is also well represented in the case of the study of corpora for making grammars of languages. This is the case of the COBUILD grammar and dictionary and the case of the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. This means that corpora have been analyzed in order to identify patterns in languages that can be later practised by learners following those patterns described and exemplified with real instances.

Teaching and learning discourse analysis: some ideas on the use of ICTs

[EN]ICTs have played a major role in transforming the way we teach and learn. The purpose of this paper is to present some ideas on how ICTs can be implemented in the teaching and learning of discourse analysis. ICTs offer valuable material to help explain key theoretical concepts of discourse analysis and to examine linguistic and social reality. A tweet, a video song, a speech, an advertisement or a hoax-mail may enhance students’ motivation and stimulate critical thinking.

The design of a syllabus for translation students: learning outcomes in the subjects of spanish language

[EN]In the new design of educational programs in European Higher Education Area (EHEA), what defines a subject it is Learning Outcomes (LO). These LO, as explicit and precise declarations, turn into the center of teaching and learning process. Keeping this change is mind, our research examines the Educational Guides (EG) of Spanish Language (SL) through a list of verbs, according to the graduation of educacionational objectives of Bllom's Taxonomy (2014-2015)

La competencia pragmática en el aprendizaje del inglés: importancia, desarrollo y propuestas de mejora en la Facultad de Filología (ULPGC)

[EN]In this paper we revise the concept of pragmatic competence and underline the recognized importance that it has in the process of teaching and learning a foreign language. The need to include explicit pedagogical instruction in the classroom is also approached. A revision of the syllabi used for the teaching of English in the Degree in Hispanic Studies at the Faculty of Philology (ULPGC) reveals some minor failure in the way the functional content is specified regarding pragmatic abilities. Some examples of how to deal with the development of pragmatic competence in the classroom, including ICT, are also presented, together with some suggestions to improve it.

Corpus-based teaching of pragmatics

[EN]This paper is a proposal for teaching pragmatics following a corpus-based approach. Corpora have had a high impact on how linguistics is looked at these days. However, teaching linguistics is still traditional in its scope and stays away from a growing tendency of incorporating authentic samples in the theoretical classroom, and so lecturers perpetuate the presentation of the same canonical examples students may find in their textbooks or in other introductory monographs. Our view is that using corpus linguistics, especially corpora freely available in the World Wide Web, will result in a more engaging and fresh look at the course of Pragmatics, while promoting early research in students. This way, they learn the concepts but most importantly how to later identify pragmatic phenomena in real text. Here, we raise our concern with the methodology, presenting clear examples of corpus-based pragmatic activities, and one clear result is the fact that students learn also how to be autonomous in their analysis o f data. In our proposal, we move from more controlled tasks to autonomy. This proposal focuses on students enrolled in the course Pragmática de la Lengua inglesa, currently part of the curriculum in Lenguas Modernas, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

PlayingCLIL, a new game-based methodology using drama pedagogy

[EN]Linguistic immersion programs are increasing nowadays. The concept of being bilingual, that started being used by schools for the elite in the 19th century, and that in the mid- 20th century became an educational option, has given raise to CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), a methodology through which students work in a bilingual environment, acquiring knowledge of curricular subject and developing their competences in a foreign language. In this teaching context started a new European project called PlayingCLIL. Six partners from different European countries (Germany, United Kingdom, Spain and Romania) are working in this project. Our main aim is to develop a new methodology to learn a foreign language combining elements from the pedagogic drama (interactive games) with the CLIL classroom. At present we are testing the games in different schools and high schools and we are compiling the results to be collected in a handbook (printed and e-book).

La infografía en el aula de ELE de la ULPGC

[ES]En el presente artículo se pretende realizar un acercamiento al concepto de infografía como medio para mostrar información concreta, comunicar de manera eficiente y, en primera instancia, enseñar. Nos adentraremos en el origen de este material de comunicación y analizaremos su presencia en el ámbito de la educación. Expondremos los objetivos que deseamos alcanzar a través de una propuesta didáctica destinada a que los alumnos de español lengua extranjera (ELE) de la ULPGC perfeccionen la capacidad de síntesis y desarrollen sus destrezas orales y comunicativas. Añadiremos, además, los requisitos necesarios para la elaboración de una infografía. Con todo, pretendemos compartir una propuesta práctica y motivadora de enseñanza/aprendizaje susceptible de trasladarse a otros ámbitos docentes.

Punctuation in Eighteenth-Century English grammars

Programa de doctorado: Estudios interdisciplinares de Lengua, Literatura, Cultura, Traducción y Tradición Clásica

Competencia comunicativa y nuevas tecnologías: resultados del aprendizaje de un curso en línea de español para estudiantes de postgrado marroquíes

Programa de doctorado: Doctorado en español y su cultura: investigación, desarrollo e innovación