Isabel Nuñez Vazquez

Universidad de Cádiz | UCA · Department of Psychology

El objetivo de esta investigación es realizar una revisión sistemática de los beneficios de aquellas competencias socioemocionales más relacionadas con Teoría de la Mente (ToM) sobre la comprensión lectora en L2 (segunda lengua). Este estudio surge ante la demanda emergente de lecturas sobre el conocimiento emocional y las competencias socioafectiv...

Numerosos estudios sobre actitudes lingüísticas han partido de los conceptos estatus y solidaridad para analizar las actitudes de estudiantes de español como L1 hacia la modalidad lingüística andaluza. Estos estudios han confirmado que existe una relación entre las variables situación y conocimiento gramatical, de modo que a mayor conocimiento gram...

This study comes up due to the great amount of learning difficulties that Reading produces to students of L1 (native language). This affects to the process of comprehension and successful academic achievement. It seems that the acquisition of L2 involves simplifying this challenge with the use of guided texts that allow students to guide their read...

The present paper reports on the effectiveness of the Grammar-Translation Method, Communicative Language Teaching and Content and Language Integrated Learning upon reading comprehension and language awareness. The study recruited a convenience sample of 164 Spanish students from a rural area in southern Spain who randomly received these three ESL/E...

Gender-based acquisition attitudes take part of an inclusive social evolution. Research points out some progress regarding gender equality in girls’ education in last years such as parity in school enrollment and same accomplished grades. Notwithstanding, gender equality in learning is not yet characterised by gender-based acquisition values. Mult...

This chapter covers cognitive learning styles of foreign language e-learning to support early childhood in relational information literacy skills. e-Learning has covered all spheres of our lives, including elementary education. Thus, the usage of Information Communication Technologies in education has been very meaningful as positive learning and t...

This paper describes the approached Project-Based Learning to work on students’ affective filter for learning in the Foreign Language Learning by reducing the anxiety when students produce by setting up the right affective filter to students’ needs and stage. Anxiety influences on the production of students and then their involvement in the teachin...

Ordinary attention to divesity measures imply the development of learning strategies inside the class-group. This involves the development of socioemotional strategies to interact with peers where the foreign language learning becomes a crucial discipline for interaction and cooperative work. These variables are associated with other’s mental and a...

When pupils are the main characters of the teaching-learning process, pupils learn meaningfully becoming meaning-makers. The students is the centre of learning as an active creator of contents which demands active involvement and meaningful learning. Project-Based Learning provides solid and lifelong learning being communication and critical thinki...

The present paper reports on the effectiveness of the Grammar-Translation Method, Communicative Language Teaching and Content and Language Integrated Learning upon reading comprehension and language awareness. The study recruited a convenience sample of 164 Spanish students from a rural area in southern Spain who randomly received these three ESL/E...

Following Berry's (2005) acculturation model, this study examined the acculturation profiles of host population secondary education students in a second language lesson toward their Moroccan immigrant peers after the financial crisis in Spain, by means of the newly-developed National Adolescents' Acculturation Preferences scale. In addition , the c...

La ansiedad ante el aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera puede implicar conductas inhibidoras de comportamiento verbal que afectan a los procesos comunicativos y de interacción en el aprendizaje, y por tanto al rendimiento académico y las actitudes lingüísticas hacia el aprendizaje de idiomas. En este trabajo pretendemos ofrecer una revisión de...

Reading and Writing are the last linguistic skills in the sequence of acquisition a language (Krashen, 1985). However, teachers must work these skills in an integrated way, because oral and written skills are not separated processes (Smith, 1983). Oral and written skills involve cognitive demanding activities which imply the interaction among pupil...

Nowadays, there is a transformation of the perception of acsessing information. The goal is to make information more understandable to involve population. However, this view was already included in learning methodologies. An example is the discipline of foreign language learning. Due to the fact that is a second language, the access to information...

1.INTRODUCCIÓN La incorporación de la lengua extranjera en la etapa de Educación Infantil así como la atención temprana incluyen cada vez más la presencia de profesionales con un nivel de competencia Lingüística y Comunicativa de al menos B2 en los idiomas de inglés, francés o alemán. Los centros educativos de Educación Primaria y Secundaria Biling...

This is a review research about learning in inclusive and educational scenarios. It is a semantic query processing for the key concept 'inclusive education' and a schema matching in order to define it (Sabbah, Selamat, Ashraf, & Herawan, 2014). We take into account different thesauri to analyze its definition and the results given by academic works...

This paper reports on an experimental study about the improvement of English as a second language mediated by an instructional practice based on an international and educational e-Twinning project joined self-identity. Taking into consideration identity development and sense of self is essential to achieve an inclusive education especially in rur...

Gender equality studies stated in the 60s (Ordem & Ulum, 2020). Gender equality education involves several actions such as the promotion of gender equality in schools. Its widespread use in education intends to foster equal treatment between girls and boys that acts as a cross-curricular topic in the curriculum of Primary Education. Gender equalit...

Environmental Education is a learning process where students develop a commitment with the planet by obtaining information about the causes and consequences which determine human being life. This implies to cover environmentally attitudes and behavior stimulating an environmental citizenship (Thor and Karlsudd, 2020). This is a lifelong learning p...

Based on Berry’s acculturation model (2005), this test examined the acculturation profiles of host students from Secondary Education towards their immigrant peers. Acculturation studies in educational contexts regarding host students are very rare. They mainly focus on ethnic minorities. The results showed that the scale possessed satisfactory psyc...

Este estudio pretende identificar la relación existente entre la ansiedad y la autoestima en una muestra de 207 adolescentes de 12-18 años, debido a la problemática presente en los Institutos de Educación Secundaria donde situaciones de ansiedad se producen diariamente, dificultando la comunicación entre alumnos y profesores, así como el desarrollo...

Este estudio surge ante la necesidad de abordar las dificultades de aprendizaje que la lectura produce en los estudiantes de español como L1 (lengua nativa), las cuales afectan a los procesos de comprensión y éxito académico. Parece que la adquisición de la L2 (lengua extranjera) supone simplificar este reto con el uso de textos guiados. Además, si...

A non-parametric study is carried out to investigate the power of video-based instruction in reading comprehension and metalinguistic awareness in learning a foreign language. We use a multiple choice cloze test in three different schools (school 1 with a no video-based instruction; school 2 with an approach to videos like single activities; and sc...

Many researchers have explored peer interactions in educational contexts like a mean for improvement of social and academic performances. The current paper analyzes the cognitive benefits of peer interactions in oral comprehension texts, that involves listening skills. A growing body of research is described in order to be aware of the importance o...

Se presenta un programa de innovación docente centrado en el uso de las Tecnologías del Aprendizaje y el Conocimiento (TACs) para el desarrollo de procesos lingüísticos y cognitivos en el contexto educativo universitario. La experiencia fue llevada a cabo con 70 alumnos del Grado de Magisterio de la Universidad de Cádiz. Consistió en el uso de herr...

In the educational scenario, Project-Based Learning appears as the main teaching method addressed to develop active learners by developing symbolic learning and critical thinking by adapting students to the current challenges of society. This adaptation supposes to develop many cognitive processes that influence on the development of language and t...

The purpose of this review is to analyze linguistic and cognitive variables that determine Reading, underlining Phonemic Awareness (PA) like the main one to develop a successful reading. The nature of language influences on the PA and examples of English and Spanish language are provided which influence of the acquisition of a second language. Ther...

Resumen Este artículo versa sobre un estudio empírico acerca de la actitud de la población escolar hacia la modalidad lingüística andaluza en diferentes situaciones comunicativas. Para ello elaboramos tres instrumentos de medición de la actitud hacia diferentes usos morfológicos de esta modalidad lingüística según las posibilidades de variación dia...

En los últimos tiempos hemos podido comprobar cómo tanto desde el punto de vista académico como desde el punto de vista legislativo se han producido una gran cantidad de cambios en la enseñanza del inglés como lengua extranjera, los cuales se han visto impulsados por las investigaciones que apuestan por una enseñanza fundamentada en el enfoque comu...

Resumen: Este artículo versa sobre la elaboración de una escala de medición del conocimiento morfológico de la modalidad lingüística andaluza en estudiantes de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria. La muestra está compuesta por 520 sujetos matriculados en 13 centros educativos. Se realizó un análisis factorial que dio lugar a dos factores correspondien...

Los encuentros multiculturales provocan el desarrollo de diferentes tipos de relaciones interpersonales entre los sujetos procedentes de diversas culturas. Este hecho, hace que tanto la sociedad emisora como la receptora tengan que poner en marcha un proceso de reajuste bidireccional (Berry, 1980). La escuela, como otras instituciones, se ve influe...

El fin último de la educación es contribuir de forma significativa a la correcta socialización del alumnado. Que nuestros jóvenes se conviertan en miembros adecuados y adaptados de su sociedad y ¿en interacción con otros, desarrollen las maneras de pensar, sentir y actuar que son esenciales para la participación eficaz en la sociedad¿ (Van der Zand...