La efectividad de un modelo metodológico mixto para la enseñanza-aprendizaje de español como LE

Kerwin A. Livingstone
University of Guyana

El presente trabajo propone proveer un modelo metodológico mixto para el desarrollo e implementación de un Módulo de Enseñanza para el español como lengua extranjera en la modalidad presencial. El objetivo principal es evidenciar cómo los principios metodológicos provenientes de los enfoques didácticos ("enfoque por tareas" y "aprendizaje cooperativo") pueden ser aplicados de manera efectiva en el diseño de contextos presenciales. Para ello, se explora evidencia empírica acerca de la efectividad de la metodología mixta en la enseñanza-aprendizaje de español como lengua extranjera en dichos ambientes, en un estudio basado en un diseño experimental longitudinal con pre-test y post-test, sin grupo control.

Los hallazgos les proporcionarán guías de orientación efectiva a investigadores, educadores y profesores de lenguas en función del desarrollo de unidades de trabajo y módulos para el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras. Los resultados muestran un incremento en el aprendizaje de determinados conocimientos en español como LE y, por tanto, mejorando la competencia lingüística y comunicativa de los sujetos. Se propone, entonces, que en el diseño de módulos de enseñanza para el aprendizaje de lenguas se integren e implementen modelos metodológicos mixtos por cuanto son los más propicios para el aprendizaje de LE/L2.

ISBN 9783862885442. LINCOM Studies in Second Language Teaching 23. 246pp. 2014.

Curriculum Review: Analysis of a Spanish Translation Course Curriculum from the University of Guyana

Kerwin A. Livingstone
University of Guyana

This curriculum review report centres its attention on the analysis of a Spanish course curriculum document from the University of Guyana. The aim of this report is to highlight those areas that are deficient in the current course curriculum, analyse and revise them, and make recommendations for improvements. Information about the University of Guyana, along with its vision, mission and value statements are presented. Then, a discussion ensues on curriculum planning, designing and development, paying specific attention to what curriculum entails. An analysis is conducted of the course curriculum, highlighting both the positives and the negatives. Subsequently, recommendations are made for changes to the course curriculum and conclusions are drawn from the report. Further, the old and new course curriculums are presented as an appendix, along with rubrics for all the assessment tasks, and a constructively-aligned lesson. The intention is that this new curriculum be used to revolutionise learning and teaching at the University of Guyana, and in all those Universities where learning and teaching is deficient.

ISBN 9783862885466. LINCOM Studies in Second Language Teaching 24. 84pp. 2014.

Poems and Short Stories: Authentic Resources for English Language Learning

Alan Maley, Jayakaran Mukundan & Handoyo Puji Widodo (eds.)

Poems and Short Stories: Authentic Resources for English Language Learning, a collection of poems and stories written by Asian teachers, continues the work of the Asian English Language Teachers’ Creative Writing Group in existence since 2003. The current text accentuates the creation of poems and stories based on lived experience. In other words, both are means of expressing and negotiating our own life narratives or stories. Through poems and stories, students can voice their own life narratives in a relaxed way in which cognition, imagination, dialog, and experience interweave each other. To this end, the current volume attempts to demonstrate practical ways to create poems and short stories based on day-to-day encounters. We argue that both poems and short stories recognize the subjective experience of the individual; therefore, they are authentic or real-life resources for learning another language, such as English.

Contents

FOREWORD

Chapter 1
Introduction

Chapter 2
Poems: Conceptual Base

Chapter 3
Pre- and While-Workshop Poems

Chapter 4
Writing from the Field Trip to Trikhandi

Chapter 5
Notes on Organizing a Writing Field Trip

Chapter 6
Stories: Conceptual Base

Chapter 7
Stories

Chapter 8
Useful Activities

Chapter 9
Concluding Remarks

ISBN 9783862885718. LINCOM Studies in Second Language Teaching 25. 96pp. 2014.

The rating of class essays written by students of English as a second language: A qualitative study of criteria and process