Benjamín Cárcamo

• PhD in Linguistics
• Researcher at University of the Americas

El artículo propone la comparación de algunas de las propuestas más relevantes del análisis del discurso multimodal, con el fin de presentarlas y establecer contrastes en relación con la implementación de sus supuestos. En particular, la presente revisión teórica muestra tanto puntos de encuentro como diferencias entre las miradas de la propuesta d...

This article evaluates the mandatory English as a foreign language textbooks provided by the government in Chile in terms of readability and types of questions. Three readability formulas are used to analyze the texts: Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch‐Kincaid Grade Level, and Coh‐Metrix L2 reading index (RDL2). To evaluate the cognitive demands that com...

Resumen La memoria de trabajo (MT) ha servido de predictor para fenómenos como el desempeño escolar en matemáticas, el nivel de comprensión lectora y el apren-dizaje de estudiantes con desarrollo atípico. Esto le ha llevado a tomar un rol clave en los estudios cognitivos. Debido a la importancia que ha tomado la MT, se vuelve relevante explorar mod...

In recent years, reading comprehension studies have followed a componential approach aimed at determining the way in which variables interact. However, in L2 academic reading comprehension, this progress is still in its initial stages. With this context in mind, this paper aims to explore the relationship between prior knowledge and L2 reading comp...

La multimodalidad continúa ganando importancia en los estudios del análisis del discurso a medida que la tecnología incrementa el acceso de los lectores al contenido digital. Considerando el impacto de la prensa en la percepción de la realidad, es de importancia revelar la forma en la cual se representan distintas experiencias humanas por medio del...

Multimodal literacy has been advocated as an essential twenty-first century skill due to the increasing access to digital media. Although there have been pedagogical interventions aimed at developing multimodal literacy, few studies have done so in EFL contexts. The present study explores the effectiveness of infographics in improving reading compr...

Systematic reviews have been periodically conducted to examine the experiences of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at university. However, these have not focused on general trends in methodology for ASD research. The present review aims to identify trends related to research methodology, such as sampling procedures, demographics, data c...

Researchers have increasingly used the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to evaluate the acceptance of CALL materials. However, as in other areas of language education, technology-enhanced L2 listening remains under-researched. To address this gap, this exploratory work was conducted in two stages: In stage1, we outline the design and validation pr...

In today’s higher education, universities demand teachers active in research, aligning with their shift toward research-oriented interests. However, academics working at a university with an educational background might encounter obstacles when engaging in research due to the reported tension between teaching and research. This study presents a cas...

The colloquium,‘(Re)Examining the research–practice interface: International perspectives, multiple methods, persistent challenges, and novel directions,’ organized by Matt Coss (Michigan State University) and Hyun-Bin Hwang (Michigan State University), consisted of six paper presentations and comments from a discussant. In applied linguistics, the...

La identidad docente ha emergido alrededor del mundo como un constructo de interés, debido a su potencial explicativo al respecto de las actitudes y comportamientos docentes. Pese al gran interés existente, hay pocos estudios que exploren la forma en la cual se implementan las metodologías cualitativas en el estudio empírico de la identidad docente...

Given the importance of multimodality in the twenty-first century and its relevance to second language acquisition, this study aimed to assess the impact of a multimodal literacy intervention on the reading comprehension of authentic multimodal texts. The participants were EFL students enrolled in a college undergraduate translation and interpretat...

The interest in the study of written corrective feedback (WCF) has led to the identification of two controversial areas: the impact of the different types of WCF and the methods used in the studies. The present study aims to contribute to the clarification of the latter by examining the methods section of recently published research articles. Its o...

COVID-19 has made many educational institutions shift to virtual learning environments. One of the main issues in doing so has been the types of interactions that are generated online. Considering the importance of interaction in second language acquisition, it is relevant to learn how EFL teachers are facing the challenge of fostering interaction...

Since the mid-90s, a growing concern has emerged regarding text comprehension from a multimodal perspective. In the Chilean educational context, multimodality has been highlighted in the official programs of the Ministry of Education. The present study examines one of the official Chilean ELT school textbooks, investigating whether its reading comp...

Educational researchers are increasingly expected to focus on their research productivity as per their professional performance. Such a trend may have influenced their professional identities and activities, especially in the Global South, where researchers have not been immersed in the new research culture and where their assumed primary role may...

Visionary teaching interventions have had a positive impact on developing and strengthening students’ ideal L2 self and motivated behavior. However, research on the effects of this kind of intervention on the motivation of Translation and Interpretation students is scarce. Using a mixed methods approach, we have evaluated the impact of a semester-l...

La Autoeficacia Docente (AD) continúa ganando relevancia debido a su conexión con factores tales como el buen desempeño docente y los bajos niveles de burnout. Las experiencias de enseñanza se consideran una de las principales fuentes de autoeficacia docente; sin embargo, los profesores en formación no suelen tener muchas de estas experiencias apar...

At the end of high school in Chile, it is expected that students achieve a B1 English language proficiency level. In the present article, we measure the level of readability of the texts used in the new EFL Chilean textbook and compare it with the readability level of the texts used in the Cambridge B1 preliminary exam to check its appropriacy. The...

The objective of this study was to validate a bilingual Spanish-English version of the Vocabulary Size Test (VST) considering its potential use as a discriminator between learners in terms of language competence. This version was designed based on the two forms available on one of the creators' websites as well as considering practices recommended...

Resumen El presente estudio tuvo dos objetivos. El primero fue determinar el efecto de la subjetividad y de la explicitud de las relaciones de coherencia causal en el procesamiento y en la comprensión de estudiantes chilenos de educación básica. El segundo fue determinar si tal efecto varía dependiendo del nivel socioeconómico (NSE). Para ello, se...

As online education programs increase their numbers, autonomous learning becomes more necessary to achieve academic success. The present research determines the impact that participating in an online course has on students’ language learner autonomy. To quantify this impact the Measuring Instrument for Language Learner Autonomy was applied in the s...

While recent studies on Spanish have shown that some causal connectives specialize in expressing certain types of causal relations, others have revealed that causal relations may be signaled by a variety of linguistic devices. Given that we were interested not only in specificity and variety, but also in the functionality of causal connective expre...

Although several investigations have been carried out in recent years on written corrective feedback (WCF), there is a lack of agreement about its definition and the effect on students’ writings of different types of feedback. This may be due to the lack of systematicity regarding the characterization of WCF used in those studies. This article seek...

La necesidad de divulgar el conocimiento académico-científico ha derivado en una mayor atención al resumen que precede al artículo de investigación científica, especialmente en cuanto a su variación disciplinaria y cultural. El presente estudio contrasta la organización retórica de resúmenes escritos en español e inglés en la disciplina de la lingü...

En el contexto cognitivista de los estudios del lenguaje han surgido distintas propuestas para el estudio de la metáfora. Esta nota muestra un análisis comparativo de las propuestas de la teoría de la metáfora conceptual (TMC) y de la metáfora deliberada (TMD), tomando como criterios sus supuestos y aplicaciones investigativas. Posteriormente se pr...

Recent literature has focused on specifying the nature of causal relations. Although the identification of whether connectives prototypically convey objective or subjective relations has been carried out for languages such as French, Dutch and English, the same has not occurred in the case of Spanish. The present study examines frequently used conn...

Debido a su rol clave en la diseminación del conocimiento en la academia, el resumen ha sido estudiado respecto a aspectos tales como su realización léxico-gramatical y organización retórica. Sin embargo, el ordenamiento de estos hallazgos no se ha realizado desde la mirada disciplinar de la biología. El presente estudio busca organizar los hallazg...

The aim of this study was to compare the use of coherence relations in the school textbooks of four primary school subjects. A corpus of 1,882 texts, corresponding to the genres used to teach in the school textbooks of Science, Language, Mathematics, and History, was analyzed. The analysis was performed manually using a taxonomy that incorporates a...

The article compares some of the most relevant proposals for multimodal analysis, in order to describe them and establish contrasts regarding the implementation of their assumptions. More specifically, this theoretical revision shows both convergences and differences among the multi-semiotic artifact proposal, the compositional approach, the socio-...

This article reports the results and reflections of an analysis of the EFL textbook provided by the Ministry of Education of Chile to all 11th graders in public and subsidized schools. The objective of this article is to identify the type(s) of comprehension developed in the listening comprehension section. In order to achieve this, a descriptive q...