Asunción Martínez-Arbelaiz

University of the Basque Country | UPV/EHU · Departamento de Métodos de Investigación y Diagnóstico en Educación

Many university scholars, including the authors of this article, acknowledge that they feel like they are riding an emotional roller coaster with academic success, as well as many project failures. Except for our PhD thesis, many of us complete our research tasks in relatively established research groups. However, little research has examined the p...

ABSTRACTThe effect of language proficiency and language choice on child interaction while working on classroom tasks is the focus of this research. Forty dyads mostly of nonnative speakers of English aged 8-12 years completed a task designed by their teacher in a school in Gipuzkoa (Basque Autonomous Community). The dyads were organized into profic...

In this chapter, we present some samples of innovative productions that show an optimal use of multimodality and translanguaging and which are part of a daily practice of our Secondary School students. By means of an intentional sampling, we select four artistic productions developed in the Basque Country and analyze them according to the phenomena...

A description of innovative and creative multimodal productions of students of Secondary Education. Assessment rubrics to improve the creative process.

Este capítulo muestra cómo constructos que la investigación educativa asocia con innovación, tales como translanguaging y multimodalidad están presentes en la comunicación diaria de nuestros alumnos y alumnas de Enseñanza Secundaria. Por medio de un muestreo intencionado, seleccionamos cuatro producciones artísticas desarrolladas en el País Vasco y...

Resumen: La creciente pesencia de hablantes de herencia en los programas de español como segunda lengua de España nos ha hecho percatarnos de las necesidades de este tipo de alumno. Por ello, resumimos las investigaciones y reflexiones que se han llevado a cabo en diferentes universidades estadounidenses sobre los hablantes de herencia en clases un...

As educational researchers, we hold monthly meetings to discuss our methodological and personal feelings and uncertainties while transitioning from a qualitative to a post-qualitative stance, which involved using artistic/cartographic methods. This shift affected us, unveiling our professional and personal vulnerability. In an exercise of collabora...

Después de argumentar la importancia de reducir la distancia entre la investigación y la práctica educativa, en este capítulo reflexionamos sobre algunos temas relevantes que han emergido a lo largo de este estudio. Primero, la necesidad de abrir nuevas perspectivas y formas de plantear la investigación educativa. Segundo, la de reconfigurar el sen...

Social, political and economic conditions shape a context of permanent flux where early childhood education teachers have to join the labour market and build their professional identity while facing numerous challenges. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects that a changing world and precarious job conditions can have on newly qualifie...

Mostrar la eficacia de un programa de enseñanza de lenguas ante las partes interesadas y a la vez señalar áreas o aspectos por mejorar son los objetivos de la evaluación de programas. En este artículo se describe el proceso de evaluación de tres programas de español como segunda lengua en situación de inmersión, en el que se difuminan los límites e...

Since more and more schools of teacher education all over the world are adding on-line asynchronous discussions to their pre-teaching education requirements, education practitioners need research to gauge their potential contribution to the development of future teachers’ identity and, in particular, to the development of their shared repertoire. R...

While growing numbers of university students study abroad in different European countries, little is known about the communicative practices facilitated by this exchange situation in an increasing globalised world. The present study aims to describe the language-related practices of 37 Erasmus students in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. We used a qu...

This article analyzes parent narratives in Basque and Spanish by means of a story aimed at boys and girls between ages of 3 and 8 in order to investigate the similarities and differences in the narrative input provided by parents, paying attention to structural and organizational features in terms of their narrative forms and functions. We used a q...

En este estudio se analiza el uso del imperfecto en las narraciones de un grupo de estudiantes universitarios, antes y después de un curso de español en situación de inmersión. Aunque la cantidad de errores de imperfecto disminuye en las categorías observadas, se muestra que, a pesar de la instrucción recibida y de la exposición natural al input, p...

Socialización lingüística de alumnos de ELE en la cultura meta Isabel Pereira NYU-Madrid Asunción Martínez Arbelaiz University Studies Abroad Consortium Aunque cada vez más estudiantes universitarios estadounidenses deciden estudiar en el extranjero, hay una gran variedad en el provecho tanto lingüístico como personal que estos alumnos hacen de es...

In this study we analyze the use of the imperfect tense in the compositions of 37 college students before and after an intensive fifth semester Spanish course in an immersion setting. Even though the number of errors of the imperfect diminishes in the categories observed, we also documented that despite the instruction received and the natural expo...

During their teaching practicum future teachers become acquainted with the rights, duties and obligations of their profession in their trajectory of building a teaching identity. In this process, they go through a number of critical incidents, where we observe that student teachers struggle to integrate the meaning of these incidents with their ide...

Clauses headed by if and when are very often considered syntactically and semantically equivalent. Nevertheless, in this paper we show that the type of predicate has an impact both on the grammaticality and the interpretation of the subordinate clause in Spanish. Theses clauses provide evidence for the proposal that stage-level predicates involve a...

Adoptando una metodología por proyectos, realizamos una experiencia docente con un grupo de seis alumnos de español como segunda lengua en situación de inmersión. Seleccionamos sesenta y cuatro piezas léxicas, que el grupo dijo que eran nuevas para ellos, todas relacionadas con la historia del País Vasco. Los alumnos realizaron tareas de producción...

Los profesionales de la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras o segundas lenguas se preguntan si sus alumnos progresan en el continuum del dominio de la lengua en cuestión. Sin embargo, dar evidencia «objetiva» del progreso de los aprendices nunca es tarea fácil. En USAC, un consorcio de universidades de Estados Unidos que ofrece cursos de español en pa...

La utilización de las tecnologías digitales exige una reflexión pedagógica que oriente y guíe su integración en las actividades escolares. Las TIC (Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación) tienen reconocido todo su potencial pero son grandes también las limitaciones de su impacto. El análisis de buenas prácticas con TIC desarrollado dentro...

This article investigates the development of grammatical accuracy in the study abroad context by analyzing the written output of 20 learners of Spanish as a second language in Costa Rica. Following Ryan & Lafford’s (1992) initial research design, data were collected at three different time intervals, coding the total number of correct uses of two c...

In this article we propose that the grammar of schooling [Tyack, D., & Tobin, W. (1994). The “grammar” of schooling: Why has it been so hard to change? American Educational Research Journal, 31(3), 453–479.] is responsible not only for the well-known and world-wide difficulties in integrating ICT into formal educational settings, but also for the r...

Este estudio investiga en qué medida el estudio de la lengua meta en situación de inmersión favorece el desarrollo de la competencia gramatical de los alumnos. Investigaciones anteriores han encontrado un efecto positivo del estudio en el extranjero particularmente sobre la fluidez oral (Freed 1995; Segalowiz y Freed 2004), pero no hay resultados c...

En: Cuadernos de pedagogía Barcelona 2006, n. 356, abril ; p. 32-35 Se realiza una experiencia educativa entre los alumnos de una escuela de San Sebastián y otra de Reno, en Estados Unidos. El objetivo es diseñar y desarrollar un programa de aprendizaje intercultural basado en las nuevas tecnologías que permita integrarlas en las aulas de Primaria....

Previous research has underscored the role of negotiation in providing appropriate conditions for second language acquisition. Varonis and Gass (1985b), in a study of English as a Second Language (ESL), found greater amount of negotiation in non-native–non-native interaction than in native-non–native interaction. Given the increased interest in...

Research on negotiation has thus far focused on oral conversations/inter- actions. This study expands on this line of research by investigating whether learners engage in negotiation when exchanging ideas in synchronous com- puter-mediated interaction. Four groups of learners of Spanish discussed a number of content questions about a reading assign...

This study investigates the acquisition of a non-null-subject language (English) by speakers of two different null-subject languages (Spanish and Chinese) in light of recent research in theoretical syntax which shows that different syntactic mechanisms are at work in the expression of null subjects in these two languages. While null subjects in Spa...

This article discusses a specific policy adopted by the Basque Government under which its employees are required to learn the minority but co-official language, a move harshly criticised by some sectors of Basque society. These workers have been tested through a series of exams resulting in a high percentage of failure, as local newspapers attest....

Collentine (2004) plantea la cuestión de si los alumnos en situación de inmersión experimentan una mejora significativa en lo que a la corrección gramatical se refiere o no. Para intentar dilucidar esta cuestión, 98 aprendices de español escribieron una redacción al principio del curso y tres meses más tarde, escribieron una segunda redacción con e...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Cornell University, 1997. Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-220). "UMI number 9733601." Facsimile.