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Se presenta brevemente la situación de la enseñanza de las locuciones en los manuales de ELE; su tratamiento en dos obras de referencia: el Marco común europeo de referencia para las lenguas: aprendizaje, enseñanza y evaluación, y el Plan curricular del Instituto Cervantes; y los aspectos que deberían ser revisados en materiales didácticos. Centrándose en las locuciones verbales, se propone un método de enseñanza-aprendizaje basado en su morfología, en su función sintáctica y en las relaciones semánticas de antonimia e hiponimia-hiperonimia. Se plantea, además, la necesidad de reflexionar sobre su significante y su significado para el estudio de la variación marcada y no marcada, y de los mecanismos de la metáfora y la metonimia en que se basan. El objetivo principal es mostrar un conjunto de reflexiones teóricas, fundadas en la lingüística, útiles para que los profesores de español lengua extranjera enseñen las locuciones verbales en relación con sus características. Se concluye que 1) el conocimiento de la morfología, la sintaxis y la semántica de las locuciones verbales es un apoyo fundamental para alcanzar una competencia fraseológica; 2) la clasificación morfológica y el análisis sintáctico y semántico de las locuciones verbales, por una parte, le permite al profesor presentarlas y trabajarlas de manera organizada y en relación con los contenidos del currículo y, por otra parte, facilita a los alumnos que las aprendan a partir del conocimiento previo de la lengua extranjera y de fenómenos psicológicos universales; y 3) la observación de la variación, de la imagen mental y de los mecanismos de formación de las locuciones verbales, unidades que existen también en la lengua materna del estudiante, es un medio fundamental para adquirir su competencia.

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Learning by reading is a substantial challenge, but with a few strategies under your belt, you can be much more successful in connecting the ideas as the author hoped you will.

Although Indigenous peoples are active citizens of the Americas, many Spanish language teachers lack the knowledge and understanding of their history, culture, and languages that is needed to present the Spanish language in context. By presenting a more complete picture of the Spanish speaking world, Indigenous America in the Spanish Language Classroom invites teachers to adjust their curricula to create a more inclusive classroom.

Anne Fountain provides teachers with key historical and cultural information about Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas and explains how to incorporate relevant resources into their curricula using a social justice lens. This book begins with an overview of the Iberian impact on Indigenous Americans and connects it to language teaching, giving practical ideas that are tied to language learning standards. Each chapter finishes with a list for further reading, inviting teachers to dig deeper. The book ends with a set of ten conclusions and an extensive list of resources organized by topic to help teachers find accurate information about Indigenous America to enrich their teaching. Fountain includes illustrations that relate directly to teaching ideas.

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Introduction

1. Conquests and the impact on indigenous languages and cultures

2. New perspectives: The Quincentennial and the 21st century

3. Ideas for Language Classes

4. Spanish American literature with indigenous perspectives

5. Ideas for Latin American Studies

6. Conclusions and resources

Glossary

Appendix A: Useful texts: Guaman Poma’s Chronicle and The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel

Appendix B: Designing online options

Este libro ofrece una gran cantidad de estrategias eficaces para adquirir una buena competencia interaccional que permita a los estudiantes desenvolverse con naturalidad en cualquier tipo de conversación. Para ello, se analiza la estructura de las interacciones: los turnos de palabra, la distribución de los turnos, las secuencias y las preferencias, la apertura, el núcleo y el cierre, etc. Incluye vídeos con conversaciones reales, a los que se accede a través de códigos QR, a lo largo de los capítulos con su correspondiente comentario sobre distintas cuestiones conversacionales. El libro da acceso a unos recursos digitales, donde se hallan propuestas de actividades para clase para distintos niveles de español.

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Few mobile-assisted vocabulary learning approaches fully correspond to the authenticity principle of the situated learning theory (SLT). A novel practice of changing the smartphone system language to second language (L2), which intends to better implement SLT in a real smartphone context, is the focus of this study. To explore the potential of using this under-researched approach to facilitate L2 vocabulary learning, a mixed-method design was adopted to investigate its impact on vocabulary acquisition, global language learning motivation, and vocabulary learning motivation. Participants’ pre- and post-test scores on the vocabulary knowledge test and motivation questionnaires were compared between the experimental and control groups. Interviews were also conducted to understand learners’ perceptions of this novel approach. Both quantitative and qualitative results indicated that the approach of changing smartphone system language to L2 was effective in increasing learners’ vocabulary knowledge gains and improving their global and vocabulary learning motivation. These findings contribute to the literature on L2 vocabulary learning and provide significant pedagogical implications.

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The main aim of this book is to contribute to our understanding of the acquisition of second language intonation, by comparing Czech learners of Spanish with German learners of Spanish and Czech learners of Italian. By means of a large production database, the study seeks to uncover how L1-to-L2 intonational transfer works and what role prosodic (dis)similarities between languages play. Contrary to most previous research, the work presents an original multidirectional cross-linguistic comparison and examines different types of sentence, such as neutral and non-neutral statements, yes/no questions, wh-questions, exclamatives and vocatives. The findings reveal positive and negative transfer from L1 to L2, and the formation of mixed patterns as well as native-like patterns, which are mainly constrained by linguistic factors such as the type of sentence and the position of the tonal event in the utterance. The results are discussed within Mennen’s (2015) L2 Intonation Learning theory and lead to the formulation of a Developmental L2 Intonation Hypothesis that makes several generalizations to characterize interlanguage intonation. This volume not only represents a step forward in the study of the acquisition of L2 intonation in general but also offers valuable findings that can be directly or indirectly applied in the classroom and will hopefully inspire further research.