Begona Montero-Fleta

Universitat Politècnica de València | UPV

Revista de lenguas para fines específicos 25.2, pp. 93-113 · http://dx.doi.org/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX El orden de la frase en español e inglés: su adquisición mediante la traducción pedagógica en Lenguas para Fines Específicos (LFE) ABSTRACT This article studies the role of L1 L2 pedagogical translation in the Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) classroo...

Purpose: Taking a literature review as a point of departure, the main aim of this paper was the identification of the behavioural indicators of innovators at the workplace, and their classification. Design/methodology/approach: A literature review was addressed by means of a search in Elsevier’s Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar. By applyi...

Improving the employability of graduates and professionals is the main aim of the European project CoMoViWo, a project which strives to address linguistic, virtual communication and intercultural challenges in global work contexts. To this end, the design and development of a series of intensive modules to improve communication in virtual and mobil...

Introducing greater innovation into the culture and capabilities of organizations worldwide, a requirement of today’s society, is an issue currently in need of scholarly attention. The present investigation is being undertaken within the context of FINCODA, a European Project involved in the development of new reliable tools for innovation competen...

Emerging communication practices in digitally mediated professional settings have changed the paradigm of current workforce requirements. This paper presents the results of a survey on the way people communicate virtually in the workplace and the specific needs that have been detected concerning virtual communication practices. The survey itself wa...

El presente trabajo está enmarcado en el proyecto CoMoViWo, financiado por la Education Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) de la Unión Europea. Con el fin de mejorar la empleabilidad a través de una alfabetización en comunicación virtual, CoMoViWo combina comunicación, tecnología y mul-ticulturalidad en ámbitos profesionales. La prime...

In this article we propose a model of innovation competence of people, based on the existing literature to integrate and complement the existing models. The main contribution of this work consists in demonstrating the differences and similarities of current models and in providing a conceptual definition for each model element. In this way, both re...

Las empresas valoran cada vez más la competencia de innovación de sus empleados, entendiendo por innovación la introducción de algo (producto, servicio, proceso o método) completamente nuevo o también la mejora de algo que ya existe. Este trabajo presenta el trabajo realizado por el grupo de investigación IEMA-UPV para la mejora del barómetro INCOD...

The CoMoViWo project, financed by the European Union’s Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), aims to improve the employability of graduates and professionals by developing literacy training for virtual communication. The innovative aspect of this project is the fusion of communication, technology, and multiculturality in asso...

The market economy, which is the driving force behind recent changes in the working dynamics of businesses and institutions, is compelling stakeholders in education to facilitate the acquisition of communicative competency in a second or foreign language as a means of preparing the workforce for mobile or virtual work. The CoMoViWo project, finance...

Despite the vast body of research on the linguistic peculiarities of Instant Messaging and Short Messaging Service, little is known about the language used in Mobile Instant Messaging in a cross-generational and cross-cultural context. To fill this gap, the crosslinguistic study addressed here is an attempt to approach age-specific variation from a...

Esta comunicacion parte del exito del Proyecto Europeo INCODE (Innovation Competencies Development) en el que el equipo de innovacion IEMA de la UPV (Innovacion en la Evaluacion para la Mejora del Aprendizaje Activo), junto a equipos de otras tres universidades europeas, presento como resultado un instrumento de evaluacion de las competencias gener...

The traditional classroom paradigm has been lately experiencing innovative changes with the advent of new technologies. This paper reports on the results of an exploratory study that puts into practice a blended learning approach in a university English course which favoured face-to-face as well as online meetings. Within this learning paradigm, th...

The market economy, which is the driving force behind recent changes in the working dynamics of businesses and institutions, is compelling stakeholders in education to facilitate the acquisition of communicative competency in a second or foreign language as a means of preparing the workforce for mobile or virtual work. The CoMoViWo project, finance...

This paper reports on the results of an innovative study that applied a social networking tool to a task explicitly designed to practise specialised vocabulary. The exploratory study, framed within a blended learning approach, examined whether the use of Twitter, a microblogging tool, can help increase students’ confidence in using ESP vocabulary....

This article presents CoMoViWo, an ongoing European project that aims at modernizing education at Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), vocational institutions and enterprises in order to meet the needs of virtual and mobile work. The innovative character of this project is embedded in the combination of mobile and virtual communication, new techno...

This article will set the theoretical background on which CoMoViWo, an ongoing European project, is based. First, the article critically analyses the concept of workplace language teaching and learning and the trends followed by current workplace language programs. A second focus of research analyses the changes that affect the literacy practices r...

In this paper we present an innovative treatment which involved students’ participation in online blogs in a university course of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Mediation of teacher-learner through the university e-learning platform (PoliformaT) was used to guide students through social networking etiquette as well as to provide online tuitio...

The study we present forms part of an ongoing study on the introduction of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in tertiary education. Our research aims at promoting the adequate use of workplace language by analysing the ability of non-native speakers of English to differentiate speech styles. Special attention has been...

The present study, based on the principles of simulation methodology, sets forth the implementation of experiential learning to enhance transferable skills and the development of innovation competences in an English course setting. The innovativecontribution of the educational research undertaken is an experiential learning tool, devised within the...

This manuscript sets forth an in-depth study of competing pairs of prefixes of Greek and Latin origin: "hyper"- vs. "super"-, "micro"- vs. "mini"-, and "poly" vs.. "multi"- from a contrastive Spanish-English perspective. Two major source corpora, the Corpus de "Referencia del Español Actual" for Spanish, and the "British National Corpus" for Englis...

Following one of the new challenges suggested by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, a treatment was developed to enhance pragmatic competence, since this competence is not easy to acquire by non-native speakers. Within this context, we focused on pragmatic awareness in the workplace, an area of expertise in growing demand tod...

This pioneer study is rooted in a constructivist paradigm and undertakes an empirical research based on a content analysis of 400 digital job vacancies to find out the employability skills required by the job market. The study is focused on introducing innovations in an English language subject in an engineering degree to enhance the development no...

The application of new technologies and media has changed the concept of teaching and learning, offering effective and attractive possibilities to the educational system, particularly to the learning of languages in specific contexts. Educators in general will agree on the importance of motivation as a key to success in language acquisition as it i...

Las nuevas necesidades terminológicas que el avance de la ciencia requiere van enriqueciendo las lenguas con sus aportaciones. La nueva dimensión funcional, comunicativa e interdisciplinar del ESP (Inglés para fines Específicos) requiere una atención especial a la terminología propia de cada disciplina. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la es...

The present research, based on constructivist learning paradigms, describes the outcomes of a project which complies with real life projection into the professional world: a Wiki-based approach is devised to construct knowledge, manage own learning and develop communication and linguistic skills in English. The paper aims to analyze the process and...

Abstract Scholars have stated the particularities of the language used in specialized discourse but little attention has been so far paid to the role derivational morphology may play in register variation. The present research makes a contribution to the study of word-formation in scientific registers by means of a corpus-based approach to the prod...

The incorporation of asynchronous computer-mediated communication in the classroom is currently in need of research. In the present study we observe the effect of the implementation of this technique to improve writing and students’ motivation. Students worked in groups and got involved in professional blogs posting responses and exchanging comment...

Resumen El presente estudio trata un género electrónico de reciente creación: el comentario deportivo en línea. Este género forma parte de la prensa tradicional, donde cuenta con una larga historia y convenciones bien definidas. En anteriores estudios hemos comprobado que en la comunicación electrónica en inglés hay más rasgos asocia-dos con el dis...

This article compares the language used in four online written asynchronous fora in English, Spanish and Catalan about football. We pay special attention to the use of informal, conversational language in these written texts. The results are then compared to a previous analysis of online fora in the three languages about a more serious topic, the I...

Many recent studies on computer-mediated communication (CMC) have addressed the question of orality and literacy. This article examines a relatively recent subgenre of CMC, that of written online sports commentary, that provides us with written CMC that is clearly based on firmly established oral genres, those of radio and television sports comment...

Approaches to the linguistic characteristics of computer-mediated communication (CMC) have highlighted the frequent oral traits involved in electronic mail along with features of written language. But email is today a new communication exchange medium in social, professional and academic settings, frequently used as a substitute for the traditional...

Este trabajo presenta nuestra investigación en torno a la variación lingüística con respecto a la lengua general que introducen las lenguas de especialidad desde los procesos de creación y renovación especialmente léxicos que les son propios. Nuestra aportación se centra en el proceso de asimilación de términos informáticos introducidos en nuestra...

This paper introduces the background of learning communities and simulation and gaming. Both topics are explored from their origin after defining characteristics and giving examples of learning communities and simulation and gaming, establishing between the two concepts the principles of interaction, complementation, enrichment, motivation, effecti...

The comprehension problems that multiword lexical units may give rise to is a common experience shared not only by readers of technical writings but also by lexicographers, lexicologists, terminologists and technical translators. An examination of the reader´s difficulties in comprehension may reveal that certain linguistic and discourse features a...