Gema Alcaraz-Mármol

• Contratado Doctor at University of Castilla-La Mancha

These working notes summarize the participation of the LACELL team in the EmoSPeech 2024 shared task, focused on multimodal emotion recognition, which combines textual and intonation features to comprehensively understand human emotions. Its application in Spanish is crucial due to the language's vast global presence, enabling more accurate emotion...

Resumen El presente estudio tiene como objetivo explorar la autoeficacia y actitudes sobre el uso de dos herramientas digitales de corpus por parte de un grupo de estudiantes de inglés como lengua extranjera que cursa el Grado en Educación Primaria en la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Los participantes realizaron una serie de actividades en el...

The international conflicts of the last decade have provoked the flight of thousands of people from their countries of origin to other places, adopting the status of refugees or asylum seekers. This migratory phenomenon has been widely documented in the Spanish written press. This article analyzes a corpus of Spanish-language news articles publishe...

Social media has become an essential source of information where people express their opinions and document their lives (Rüdiger and Dayter, 2020). Social media has been widely researched in the field of linguistics in the last decade. Sociolinguistics and pragmatics have been found to be the most addressed branches of linguistics, being explored f...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) curriculum integration is the seamless and systematic use of various digital tools in curricular programs. Despite significant research on bilingual dictionaries, their structure, and their advantages in teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL), there is often unregulated use of free access onli...

Can engaging university students in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) increase their achievement in Biology and English language? The current study explored the effectiveness of team teaching enhanced CLIL on student achievement. Framed in interdisciplinary/cross-curricular teaching, we examined the effect of CLIL strategy on student...

El actual incremento en el uso de dispositivos móviles en el aula de lenguas extranjeras ha ampliado la presencia de herramientas léxicas como los diccionarios bilingües online de libre acceso. Desafortunadamente, su uso aún no está adecuadamente explicado y regulado. Esta falta de intencionalidad pedagógica dio lugar a un estudio de investigación...

This study explores the effect of three activities on ESL vocabulary acquisition. Three groups of students in their sixth year of Primary Education participated. Each group worked new vocabulary with a different activity. The first group used reading plus flash cards; the second did the same through reading plus filling the gaps; the third one work...

p>The present study deals with two types of L2 glosses, namely dynamic and traditional text-based glosses. The former were presented to students as a set of prompts designed to help learners identify the correct keyword, whereas the latter were introduced as traditional annotations containing L1 equivalents. A third control group was included in th...

The present study deals with two types of L2 glosses, namely dynamic and traditional text-based glosses. The former were presented to students as a set of prompts designed to help learners identify the correct keyword, whereas the latter were introduced as traditional annotations containing L1 equivalents. A third control group was included in the...

Learning through linguistic corpora, also called data-driven learning or DDL (Johns, 1991), is an approach towards the teaching of foreign languages in which students discover the behaviour of a language through specific corpus-analytic tools. Being an inductive, student-centred methodology, DDL has proved to have numerous applications in the field...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Technologies and Innovation, CITI 2020, held in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in November-December 2020. The 16 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: semantic technologies and mach...

Abstract According to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), the intercultural competence is one of the aspects that must be developed as part of the communicative competence in a foreign language. Two groups of students in their 6th year of Primary Education work on a pollution project through English as the vehicular language. The exp...

In recent decades a few research methods have resorted to L2 learners in order to analyse several aspects aiming at methodological improvements. One of them is corpus linguistics, which has largely contributed to the study of language production from a quantitative perspective. A very different one has been the compilation of perceptions of the L2...

The dehumanization of migrants and refugees in the media has been the object of numerous critical discourse analyses and metaphor-based studies which have primarily dealt with English written news articles. This paper, however, addresses the dehumanizing language which is used to refer to refugees in a 1.8-million-word corpus of Spanish news articl...

The present study explores the communicative potential of two ESP textbooks. It examines a sample of activities of English for Commerce and English for Medicine textbooks with an instrument of analysis consisting of three parts: (1) a section for the metadata of the activities, (2) a checklist which assesses the presence and distribution of languag...

The latest version of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (2018) remarks linguistic mediation as one of the communicative skills to be developed by foreign language learners. In this paper, two groups of secondary education students of English as a Second Language work on several phrasal verbs through different activities. One...

El presente estudio surge ante el reciente auge de la mediación lingüística en la clase de enseñanza de idiomas. Si bien es verdad que el concepto de mediación lingüística aparece como uno de los pilares de la competencia comunicativa en el Marco Común Europeo para las Lenguas, no ha sido hasta ahora cuando se está empezando a tomarla en considerac...

Linguistic mediation is one of the aspects to be developed within communicative competence, as established by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (2002). The aim of this study is to check whether linguistic mediation somehow contributes the development of other communicative constructs, in this case oral production. To this end...

This paper explores the discursive representation of refugees in a 1.8-million-word corpus of Spanish news articles collected from the digital libraries of El Mundo and El País. Through a corpus-assisted methodology, synchronic and diachronic analyses have been conducted in order to examine the semantic preference of the lemma refugiado over the 20...

In this paper, the methods for developing a database of Spanish writing that can be used for forensic linguistic research are presented, including our data collection procedures. Specifically, the main instrument used for data collection has been translated into Spanish and adapted from Chaski (2001). It consists of ten tasks, by means of which the...

This article analyses the main legislation in Spain regarding Bilingual Education in the stage of Primary Education. Firstly, it divides Spanish regions into monolingual and bilingual. Later, it deals with the main legislation enforced in Primary Education, and carefully analyses three main aspects: teachers’ L2 level, teachers’ methodological requ...

Agronomy and environment represent a key element in the present-day society. These areas have great importance in Latin American countries, technological innovations in these areas representing a key strategy. Particularly, the application of ICTs to agronomy and environment is a current need and there are new and exciting innovations in this field,...

The Spanish wine sector has undergone a series of changes in the last decades, particularly due to the decreasing domestic demand and the growing international competence. Consequently, Spanish wineries have had to adapt to this new situation by adopting new marketing policies. The aim of this study is to explore to what extent these new policies h...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Technologies and Innovation, CITI 2019, held in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in December 2019. The 14 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: ICT in agronomy; knowledge-based system...

This paper explores the semantic prosody of the lemma "refugiado" in the Spanish press over a 7-year period (2010-16) with the aim of examining the discursive representation of refugees in this textual genre. The study is concerned with diachronic and quantitative aspects, while focusing on the negative lexical units collocating with "refugiado". T...

The 4th International Conference on Technologies and Innovation (CITI 2018) was held during November 6–9, 2018, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The CITI series of conferences aims to become an international framework and meeting point for professionals who are mainly devoted to research, development, innovation, and university teaching in the field of comput...

Since the early 2000s, there seems to be a growing interest in bilingual education in Spain. The need for teachers with certain accreditation in foreign language proficiency has been growing in the last decade. Yet, the methodological basis to integrate content and language in the classroom does not seem to be a compulsory requirement. The particip...

This study focuses on the semantic prosody (SP) of the word inmigración and its comparison in two Spanish newspapers which represent two different political ideologies. Our objective is to determine whether there exists a negative prosody of the item inmigración in the newspapers analyzed. We also intend to explore whether any significant differenc...

El presente artículo presenta un recorrido por la legislación española en cuestiones de enseñanza bilingüe en la etapa de Educación Primaria. Se describen las distintas normativas legales que las comunidades autónomas elaboran como marco para el desarrollo de programas lingüísticos que fomenten la enseñanza de áreas no lingüísticas en una lengua ex...

Decision making takes place in an environment of uncertainty. Therefore, it is necessary to have information which is as accurate and complete as possible in order to minimize the risk that is inherent to the decision-making process. In the financial domain, the situation becomes even more critical due to the intrinsic complexity of the analytical...

The Second International Conference on Technologies and Innovation (CITI 2016) was held during November 23–25 2016, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The CITI series of conferences aims to provide an international framework and meeting point for professionals who are mainly devoted to research, development, innovation, and university eaching in the field of c...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Technologies and Innovation, CITI 2017, held in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in October 2017. The 24 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: cloud and mobile computing; knowledge bas...

This volume contains papers from the Doctoral Symposium of the 33rdInternational Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing, held on September 19, 2017, in Murcia, Spain.This scientific event convened PhD researchers with an interest in the latest research work and developments in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP...

Several studies, such as the one carried out by Checa and Arjona (2011), show the negative view of the Spanish media towards immigration from a social perspective, in which immigration is conceived as a threat and an invasion that causes fear and hostility. However, this negative view has been barely analysed from a linguistic perspective. In parti...

Resumen En este estudiopresentamos una propuestadidáctica para la enseñanza devocabulario en inglés comosegunda lengua a través de losanglicismos encontrados en laprensa femenina española.Nuestro propósito es plantearuna serie de actividadesbasadas en neologismos parapoder captar la atención denuestro alumnado y tratar elléxico en un contexto autén...

p>Despite the current importance given to L2 vocabulary acquisition in the last two decades, considerable deficiencies are found in L2 students’ vocabulary size. One of the aspects that may influence vocabulary learning is word frequency. However, scholars warn that frequency may lead to wrong conclusions if the way words are distributed is ignored...

Psicopatia envolve uma série de características cognitivas, sociais e emocionais específicas que diferenciam o psicopata do resto da população; as duas características mais notáveis são os déficits emocionais extremos e profundos refletidos na apatia do próprio egoísmo. Também vale destacar as habilidades de comunicação dos psicopatas, que usam a l...

The im4Things platform aims to develop a communication interface for devices in the Internet of the Things (IoT) through intelligent dialogue based on written natural language over instant messaging services. This type of communication can be established in different ways such as order sending and, status querying. Also, the devices themselves are...

The Common European Framework of Reference (2001) states that the communicative ability in a target language is partly based on the development of attitudes so that students are able to establish a relationship in an intercultural context. Some scholars state that language and culture are difficult to separate, as both constitute an integrated part...

Innovation is one of the keys to success in the business world. More concretely, open innovation is gaining momentum so different tools for supporting the collaboration between experts and developers in this field are needed. On the other hand, ontologies and semantic technologies provide a consistent and reliable means to represent and aggregate k...

The main goal of the OPEN IDEA Project is the development of a platform which efficiently manages the innovative ideas within an organization by using semantic technologies and natural language processing. The main challenge of this system is to promote the concept of Open Innovation in the enterprise by making easier the interaction between the or...

Resumen: La finalidad del proyecto OPEN IDEA es el desarrollo de una herramienta que permita gestionar de manera eficiente las ideas innovadoras dentro de una organización, mediante el uso de tecnologías semánticas y del procesamiento del lenguaje natural. El objetivo central del sistema es fomentar el concepto de innovación abierta facilitando, du...

Despite the eminently communicative approaches to FL, learners still feel the need to have almost immediate access to the meaning or form of foreign words. With this premise in mind, we have conducted the present study on the bilingual dictionary, being our goal twofold. Firstly, we compare the task where the dictionary is required with other three...

Native speakers of different languages may conflate reality in different ways. One of the most illustrative examples of this idea is movement and the divergences in its lexicalization on the part of the native speakers of English and Spanish. The present study focuses on the lexicalization of motion events in the learners' interlanguage. We compare...

The present study explores the effect of four types of tasks on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) vocabulary acquisition. Four groups of students in their fifth year of Primary Education worked with a list of English words by means of a different task: reading comprehension with marginal glosses; reading comprehension and gap-filling; writing wit...

The aim of the present study is to find out whether there exists a relation between word distribution and receptive and productive acquisition. A group of 20 students of EFL took two vocabulary tests based on L1-L2 and L2-L1 translation. The test items were target words from the students' coursebook. These words had been previously attributed an in...

The aim of the present study is to find out whether there exists a relation between word distribution and receptive and productive acquisition. A group of 20 students of EFL took two vocabulary tests based on L1-L2 and L2-L1 translation. The test items were target words from the students' coursebook. These words had been previously attributed an in...

In Chinese, 'study' means 'read the textbooks'. From the first day I went to school, I had to bring my textbooks. Throughout my school years, I learned with textbooks […] Since becoming a teacher I have mixed feelings towards the textbook. Sometimes I hate it and sometimes I love my inevitable teaching partner. This seems unlikely to be a perfect....

El sector vitivinícola español ha experimentado una serie de transformaciones en los últimos años, especialmente derivada de la caída del consumo interno y la creciente competencia en los mercados. Esto ha provocado que las bodegas españolas tuvieran que adaptarse a las nuevas circunstancias mediante la aplicación de modernas políticas de marketing...

Researchers state that the number of times a learner encounters a word may contribute to its acquisition (Nagy et al. 1985; Rott 1999; Pigada and Schmitt 2006; Webb 2007). The current study seeks to find out whether there is a relationship between specific frequency – that is, the number of times a word occurs in a text – and vocabulary learning. C...