{"title":"La fractocomposición","authors":"Ivan Solivellas","doi":"10.1075/resla.22039.sol","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.22039.sol","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 La fractocomposición es un proceso de formación de palabras que ha generado diferentes incógnitas y que,\u0000 generalmente, se ha estudiado desde la afijación o desde la composición culta. Por ello, este trabajo consiste en una aproximación\u0000 a los fractoconstituyentes y a las construcciones que generan. Así pues, el objetivo principal es analizar las propiedades de\u0000 estas unidades y definir qué es la fractocomposición como proceso de formación de palabras. Así, el trabajo ofrece una revisión\u0000 bibliográfica de diferentes aportaciones teóricas y un estudio empírico a partir de un corpus de unidades de la lengua catalana.\u0000 Además, el trabajo pone énfasis en el carácter fronterizo de los fractoconstituyentes, que se sitúan entre los afijos y los\u0000 elementos cultos.","PeriodicalId":219483,"journal":{"name":"Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"176 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141015190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creating and validating a corpus-based English academic word list for physics","authors":"Milica Vuković-Stamatović","doi":"10.1075/resla.22041.vuk","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.22041.vuk","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this study a Physics Research Articles Word List (PRAWL) is built, which includes the most extensively used\u0000 English vocabulary in the genre of physics research articles outside the most frequent general-purpose vocabulary. PRAWL can be of\u0000 great use in English for Physics teaching and learning. This discipline-specific academic word list was produced from a corpus of\u0000 1.25 million running words, consisting of 200 physics research articles. PRAWL contains 929 words and has a 17.48% coverage in the\u0000 corpus it was derived from. Together with 2,000 high-frequency general-purpose words, as well as words bearing no or minimal\u0000 learning load, PRAWL reaches a coverage close to 95% in this corpus. We validate PRAWL in three independent corpora and also\u0000 discuss the pedagogical implications and recommendations regarding its use. The list is intended for students of physics who do\u0000 not have a command of English which is sufficiently adequate for reading research articles in it without outside support.","PeriodicalId":219483,"journal":{"name":"Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"16 s2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141024604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Delimitación, visualización y metalenguaje","authors":"Beatriz Carbajal-Carrera","doi":"10.1075/resla.23012.car","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.23012.car","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000El presente artículo adopta el marco teórico del Diseño Universal para el Aprendizaje (DUA) como acercamiento cualitativo para examinar la accesibilidad de la enseñanza de las emociones en los manuales de español lengua extranjera (ELE). En concreto, se aplican de forma sistemática las tres pautas del principio de representación del DUA en el análisis de unidades didácticas sobre las emociones de 16 manuales de ELE de nivel B1. El análisis aborda de forma crítica las limitaciones presentes en estos materiales con un foco en tres factores clave en la representación de emociones: su delimitación, su visualización y su metalenguaje. La revisión de materiales se estructura en torno a las tres pautas del principio de representación y revela conexiones entre las carencias curriculares identificadas por estudios previos y los aportes del principio de representación. Las conclusiones de estudio contribuyen al creciente cuerpo de investigaciones sobre DUA en entornos de aprendizaje con diversos grados de competencia lingüística.","PeriodicalId":219483,"journal":{"name":"Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":" 88","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140683248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ahmad Ansarifar, Hesamoddin Shahriari, Shelley Staples, Mohammad Ghazanfari
{"title":"Linguistic variation in two written academic sub-registers","authors":"Ahmad Ansarifar, Hesamoddin Shahriari, Shelley Staples, Mohammad Ghazanfari","doi":"10.1075/resla.22052.ans","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.22052.ans","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The present study aims to compare abstracts written by graduate students and internationally-published authors using Biber’s (1988) Multi-Dimensional (MD) model. To this end, two corpora of abstracts (1800 texts each) from research articles (RA) published in top international Applied Linguistics journals, and theses completed in the same field were compiled. We compared the two corpora with regard to three of Biber’s (1988) dimensions: involved versus informational production; elaborated vs. situation-dependent reference; and abstract vs. non-abstract style. Our results revealed that RA abstracts and thesis abstracts are similar when compared to non-academic registers of English, but different when compared to each other. Relative to thesis abstracts, RA abstracts are more informational but less elaborated and less impersonal. Interestingly, we found that RA/thesis abstracts differ from Biber’s (1988) academic prose register along the three dimensions. Our findings can further our understanding of the differences between RA and thesis abstracts, thus contributing to the instruction of academic writing at the graduate level.","PeriodicalId":219483,"journal":{"name":"Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"54 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140730019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transcending medical consultations","authors":"Cristina Álvaro Aranda","doi":"10.1075/resla.22043.cri","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.22043.cri","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The role of healthcare interpreters has attracted much interest over the years, with particular emphasis on the\u0000 distance between an invisible, uninvolved prescribed behaviour that contrasts with the interpreters’ behaviour in practice as\u0000 active participants. However, much of the existing literature focuses on unfolding medical consultations where providers, patients\u0000 and interpreters are simultaneously present, often overlooking situations when interpreters are left alone with patients. This\u0000 involves areas of special role complexity in which interpreters must choose whether or not to become visible to the patient in\u0000 what has been defined as the in-between (Shaffer, 2020). This contribution aims to\u0000 observe the healthcare interpreter’s role beyond the very act of the medical interview. Inspired by Shaffer (2020), we examine 66 moments “in-between” involving a sample of six interpreters (including four\u0000 student interns) that took place prior, mid and end of consultations in a Spanish hospital. Rather than staying invisible, our\u0000 analysis reveals that interpreters of the sample often participate in moments in-between (89.39%) to enact different roles (i.e.,\u0000 companion/confidant, advocate for the profession, mediator, institutional navigator, and healthcare ambassador). Among other\u0000 aspects, triggers for role adoption in the in-between space include preventing conflict and deploying empathy. In this study, the\u0000 behaviour of interpreters has demonstrated to influence the subsequent development of medical consultations (e.g., saving time or\u0000 facilitating history taking). In light of preliminary findings that must be interpreted considering our research context, the next\u0000 step is to examine how the healthcare interpreter’s behaviour in the in-between zone can facilitate interprofessional\u0000 collaboration to provide patients with quality-care.","PeriodicalId":219483,"journal":{"name":"Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"4 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140737566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Spanish Computer-Assisted Listening and Speaking Tutor","authors":"Violeta Martínez-Paricio, Jacques Koreman","doi":"10.1075/resla.22046.mar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.22046.mar","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article presents the Spanish version of the Computer-Assisted Listening and Speaking Tutor (CALST), an online\u0000 platform that can be used to complement pronunciation training in the classroom. The Spanish CALST offers listening, speaking, and\u0000 spelling exercises for Northern-Central Peninsular Spanish as an L2. Exercises are tailored by an automatic comparison with the\u0000 learner’s native language based on a database of phonetically specified phoneme inventories for over 500 languages, with the\u0000 result that learners with different L1s are exposed to different exercises adapted to their specific needs. In this article, we\u0000 present a description of the exercises as well as the criteria used to develop Spanish content for CALST. We discuss the\u0000 limitations of the platform, the logging of user results as a partial solution to these limitations, and the possible future use\u0000 of the logged data to increase our understanding of L2 acquisition.","PeriodicalId":219483,"journal":{"name":"Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"86 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140736093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing voice vs. writing quality","authors":"Maryam Homayounzadeh, Mohammad Rahimi","doi":"10.1075/resla.22055.hom","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.22055.hom","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Using a mixed-methods design, the study aimed to distinguish voice features from the criteria considered in most L2 writing rating scales (e. g., topic development, organization, and quality of language use). Accordingly, a sample of 200 argumentative essays written in English was scored for voice, writing quality, and the critical features of academic writing such as text length, lexical sophistication, and grammatical complexity (see Cumming et al., 2005). Multiple regression and structural equation modeling (SEM) were conducted to verify which of and how the critical elements of academic writing interacted to determine the scores for voice and writing quality. Think-aloud protocols (TAPs) of raters scoring voice and writing quality were also compared. Voice was found an indication of genre competence, rated independently of language use and mostly based on the structure of arguments and the quality with which writers employed certain textual voice elements. In assessing writing quality, however, textual voice elements were dismissed, and the writing quality scores mainly reflected the quality of language use rather than the argument structure. The study provides implications for second language writing assessment and instruction, as well as for future research to be conducted.","PeriodicalId":219483,"journal":{"name":"Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"54 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140736919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Minto-García, E. A. Alva Canto, Natalia Arias-Trejo, Tania Jasso
{"title":"The function of the pointing gesture-speech combination in children’s story retelling","authors":"A. Minto-García, E. A. Alva Canto, Natalia Arias-Trejo, Tania Jasso","doi":"10.1075/resla.22045.min","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.22045.min","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The use of multimodal communication provides information about children’s language development. From early ages, combinations of gesture and speech are part of communication and meaning processes in different discursive contexts. Our aim was to identify the types of pointing gesture-speech combinations and their communicative functions in the story retelling of 30-, 36-, 42-, and 48-month-old children. We analyzed the children’s retellings (in the context of joint attention with a book) by first identifying whether the pointing gesture-speech combinations were complementary or supplementary and then coding the communicative function of the combinations as assertive, directive, or expressive. The results showed a greater proportion of complementary combinations in all age groups, and a greater frequency of the assertive function in both complementary and supplementary combinations. This study provides evidence about the role of the pointing gesture-speech combinations in Mexican children’s story retelling and how their multimodal communication develops in this narrative context.","PeriodicalId":219483,"journal":{"name":"Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"27 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140735892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"University students’ perceptions of team teaching by native and non-native speakers in a Spanish course","authors":"Yerim Song","doi":"10.1075/resla.22050.son","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.22050.son","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study investigated the perceptions of 200 Korean students of Spanish as a foreign language regarding team teaching by a Korean Spanish teacher (KST) and a native Spanish-speaking teacher (NST) in a university Spanish course. The survey focused on the students’ views on the weight and demand of learning areas in the lectures, the teaching method and attitude of each instructor, and the advantages and disadvantages of each teacher. The questionnaire asked the students to evaluate the overall team teaching to discern their expectations of the Spanish classes. The results showed that the students had high demands for speaking in both the KST’s and NST’s classes and indicated the advantages and disadvantages of both types of teachers. A relationship was found between the language proficiency level of the students and their preference for instructors, and the use of the first language was considered positive. Overall, the team teaching was evaluated as ideal.","PeriodicalId":219483,"journal":{"name":"Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140736577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estrategias introductoras y tipo de reproducción de las citas directas en el corpus oral PERUSEV","authors":"Doina Repede","doi":"10.1075/resla.22067.rep","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.22067.rep","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000En las últimas décadas diversos estudios han dado cuenta del amplio abanico de marcos introductores de cita directa en las diferentes variedades del español hablado. Más allá de los verbos dicendi como introductores de cita directa, se ha observado el empleo de la conjunción y, los marcadores discursivos, el adverbio así o la construcción ser de que (De la Mora, 2018; Gallucci, 2018a, 2018b; Gallucci & Vargas, 2015, etc.). En este trabajo buscamos una primera aproximación a las distintas estrategias introductoras de citas directas en el habla de los peruanos residentes en la ciudad de Sevilla, con el fin de conocer cómo se materializa la cita directa en esta variedad de habla, así como el tipo de información que se reproduce. Para lograr estos objetivos, utilizamos 22 entrevistas semiestructuradas que constituyen el corpus oral PERUSEV. El análisis muestra que en nuestros materiales predominan los verbos dicendi y los marcadores nulos como estrategias para introducir el discurso directo. Asimismo, revela la aparición de nuevas formas que no habían sido documentadas en otras variedades de habla hispana. Por tipo de reproducción, se ha observado la presencia, aparte del habla directa del propio hablante o de terceros, también del discurso estereotipado e hipotético.","PeriodicalId":219483,"journal":{"name":"Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"80 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140742450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}