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.

Origin and dispersal routes of foreign green and Kemp's ridley turtles in Spanish Atlantic and Mediterranean waters

[EN] The presence of the green and Kemp's ridley turtles is rare at Atlantic and Mediterranean Spanish waters, but the records have increased during the last decades. We reported a new set of records and reviewed all the historical observations of these species. The analysis of a mitochondrial DNA fragment of the newest records provided insights about the origin of the individuals. The Kemp's ridley turtles arrived from the western Atlantic nesting beaches, although the discovering of a new haplotype suggested the existence of an unknown or low sampled nesting area of origin.

¿Cómo ven los maestros en formación la futura evaluación estandarizada a través de tabletas digitales?

[ES]El campo de la evaluación va adquiriendo una importancia progresiva en España. Hasta hace pocos años los estudiosos de la especialidad eran pocos en nuestro país y aun hoy, en el campo de las lenguas extranjeras, el número de investigadores es pequeño. Una de las áreas donde la evaluación de lenguas extranjeras en España se ha fijado recientemente es la de la ubiquidad. Proyectos como PAULEX Universitas y más recientemente OPENPAU han puesto de manifiesto la necesidad del uso de dispositivos móviles para la realización de pruebas estandarizadas. [EN]The field of evaluation is acquiring growing importance in Spain . Until recently scholars specialty were few in our country and even today, in the field of foreign languages , the number of researchers is small. One area where the assessment of foreign languages in Spain has been recently set is that of ubiquity. Projects like PAULEX Universitas and more recently OPENPAU have revealed the necessity of the use of mobile devices for conducting standardized tests.