José Luis Ortega Martín

University of Granada | UGR · Departamento de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura

Teaching a second or foreign language has long been considered a complicated task depending on several internal (psycho-emotional) and external (social) factors (Derakhshan, 2022; Madrid, 1995; Martín & Escabias, 2007; Pawlak et al., 2020). To get along with these complexities, educational systems all around the world inspire teachers, as the archi...

Total physical response (TPR) aims to develop listening comprehension and verbal communication skills of beginner level of students through physical actions. This paper is a systematic review of the literature on EFL teaching by TPR methodology on higher education students in the area of English teaching, Physical Education, and Physical Activity a...

La preparación para conseguir una plaza fija como maestro del cuerpo público docente en España es un proceso complejo y tedioso que puede originar la aparición de estados mentales disruptivos en el opositor. Atendiendo a todo lo citado anteriormente, esta investigación muestra los objetivos de estudiar los niveles de resiliencia, estrés, síndrome d...

The coronavirus pandemic affected education enormously, and despite numerous previous efforts to achieve digitalization, virtual teaching revealed deficiencies in both the EFL teachers' digital competence and in the peripheral use of Information and communication technologies (ICTs). This study focused on a sample group to analyze the relationship...

Various studies have been done on shifting toward technology-based second language (L2) education. However, the influence of psycho-emotional factors on students’ technology acceptance is overlooked. To fill this gap, the present quantitative study examined the role of students’ achievement emotions and technological self-efficacy in predicting the...

Motivating learners to engage in effective communication is one of the fundamental concerns of language education. Accordingly, an educational context where L2 learners display a willingness to communicate (WTC) is a requirement for successful learning. A further concept that should be studied regarding WTC is students' self-efficacy from the socio...

Higher education is a focus of increasing violent behavior. The evidence suggests an obsession to achieve the best academic performance in order to access working life. This research aims to develop an explanatory model of violent behavior and its relationship with self-concept and emotional intelligence according to in relation to their academic p...

The adequacy of language education largely depends on the favorable and unfavorable emotions that teachers and students experience throughout the education process. Simply said, emotional factors play a key role in improving the quality of language teaching and learning. Furthermore, these emotional factors also promote the well-being of language t...

Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth International Conference on Learning, hosted by the University of Valencia, July 13 - 15, 2023. The conference featured research addressing the following special focus: “Intercultural Learning in Plurilingual Contexts” and annual themes: Pedagogy and Curriculum; Assessment and Evaluation; Educational Organization and...

El aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera implica un paulatino desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa del alumnado con el fin de poder comunicarse con eficacia dentro de un área de interés. La formación de las habilidades lingüísticas, culturales y socioculturales está estrechamente entrelazada con una serie de complejos procesos a nivel cognitivo...

RESUMEN Durante muchos años, la situación del asociacionismo de ELE en Costa de Marfil no ha estado a la altura del dinamismo de su enseñanza no solo en términos demolingüísticos sino también en la producción de materiales didácticos adaptados al alumnado africano. El despertar actual en este ámbito tiene que ver con el poder vinculador de Internet...

In response to the challenges of the 21st century, the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has been committed to the development of a training model that focuses on the acquisition of cognitive, physical, and social competences, among others, rather than the mere acquisition of knowledge. This approach has gained momentum in recent years, where t...

Due to its emotional and intellectual essence, education is a highly demanding, challenging, and stressful mechanism. That is, teachers and learners in any educational system typically experience a wide variety of challenges and adversities. Because of this, they are prone to various unpleasant emotions, including anxiety, apprehension, stress, and...

Tarazi A and Ortega-Martín JL (2023) Enhancing EFL students' engagement in online synchronous classes: The role of the Mentimeter platform. The present research aimed to evaluate teachers' attitudes toward the use of the Mentimeter platform in synchronous education. This study also sought to delve into teachers' perspectives on the role of the Ment...

El presente capítulo muestra un perfil biográfico que revisa la trayectoria de la figura del profesor Daniel Madrid Fernández, catedrático en Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura de la Universidad de Granada. En una entrevista realizada por los autores de este capítulo y compañeros del profesor Daniel Madrid, a través de sus propias palabras, nos...

The situation generated by the pandemic has caused irreversible changes in society and the educational world, manifesting a necessary change in methodology in the teaching and learning process. The purpose of this study, which is part of a doctoral thesis investigation, was to analyze the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and...

The preparation to qualify for a permanent placement as a public teacher (civil servant) in Spain is a complex process. The aim of this study is to empirically investigate the levels of resilience, stress, the burnout syndrome and study hours of candidates preparing for the state examination to get a permanent placement in the Spanish education sys...

El libro Sobre Investigación, Praxis y Experiencias en ELE: Una Mirada Multicultural tiene como trasfondo el aumento de estudiantes matriculados a cursos de ELE a nivel global y el creciente interés de la academia por estudiar los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje de esta lengua, tanto en su faceta teórica como práctica. Con el fin de examinar la...

En la última década, se ha podido ver un aumento de investigaciones con el fin de estudiar cómo implementar el feedback en la competencia escrita de los estudiantes de inglés como lengua extranjera en la Educación Superior; sin embargo, estos estudios en Educación Secundaria son escasos. El objetivo principal de este estudio, realizado en el tercer...

Service-Learning (SL) is an educative methodology that combines student’s pragmatic and inclusive learning, and benefits community. In addition, together with supervised physical activity (PA) and Total Physical Response (TPR) group games, it could make the foreign language learning more natural and effective.The main aim of this study is to analys...

Knowledge and awareness of how to use non-verbal language is essential for the educational field. For this reason, the aim of this study was to develop a validation that validly and reliably measures the analysis of non-verbal language in university teachers. Content validation was carried out by applying the Delphi technique and through an explora...

Despite the plethora of the ICT tools and resources available for teaching English, practitioners are still not making effective use of e-learning to enrich the student experience. The main aim of this chapter is to present a learning design toolkit which guides practitioners through the process of implementing AVT in an English language teaching (...

"Over the past decade, interest in language teacher education and professionalization programs has increased significantly mainly due to global educational reforms, which have been driven by internationalization, multilingualism, the rise of new literacy and the incorporation of technologies. This publication addresses work in various sociocultural...

Music has multiple characteristics that make it an ideal tool for teaching and learning languages. Although some research has been done on this subject, there are still many areas to explore. This quantitative research presents survey data from 178 students of Spanish as a Foreign Language to better understand how adult learners use music and other...

Background: The present study analyzed the need for cognitive closure and narrative creativity in adolescents. The aim was to demonstrate a strong relationship between narrative creativity and the need for cognitive closure. We analyzed a group of participants by applying a lie scale integrated with the Need for Closure Scale to detect potential re...

The study refers to collaborative writing. The main objective of this study is to show the e�ects of collaborative writing in the acquisition of the English language upon students of non-compulsory secondary education. The applied study is grounded on a quantitative focus of correlational character and descriptive basis, while applying a quasi-expe...

The aim of the present study was to analyze the impact of narrative creativity on the subject of written foreign languages in secondary school students. A quasi-experimental longitudinal study was conducted with 117 students of 14-15 years of age in two secondary schools in Andalusia (Spain) with experimental and control groups. The tools used were...

En este trabajo se presentan diferentes factores de calidad que se han usado para la medición de la calidad en los centros bilingües no universitarios en España

This work is part of a wider study that focuses on sociocultural aspects and their treatment in the manuals of Spanish as a foreign language (SFL) in Italy. We start from the assumption that socio-cultural contents in Spanish language learning textbooks are not sufficient to develop cultural consciousness in students; so, we started analysing the a...

The aim of this chapter is to cope with the training received by student teachers that will cope with different situations in their Secondary classrooms.

The vertiginous advance of society in recent years has forced a modification of demands among citizens and educators. The arrival of information and communication technologies to the educational atmosphere has led to the development of the digital competence of teachers, which is one of the educational challenges teacher training has to face now. B...

Abstract: The present work aims to explore the demonic and ghost dimension within Ivan Turgenev’s tale “The Dream.” The primary goal is to understand how Trugenev connects the world of the living with that of the ghosts through “dreams” and the appearance of ghosts that create, thus, the sensation of strangeness and confusion in readers, as well as...

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has become a widely implemented modality of instruction, yet concerns regarding its effectiveness remain tangible in the domain of public opinion, and a solid body of evidence in favour of or against this type of education is still lacking. This chapter begins with an examination of the development of...

The aim of this study is to analyse, define and contrast a model that explains the concept of self-awareness and teenagers’ attitudes towards Physical Education (P.E.). Using multi-group structural equations, the study also delves deeper into the links between the concept of self and attitudes of learners toward the physical education teacher accor...

Today the presence of immigrant students in Europe has led to a series of measures and actions to tackle this multicultural reality. In this study we present the functioning and characteristics of language support classrooms and compare Temporary Language Adaptation Classrooms (ATAL, from its initials in Spanish) in Andalusia and the teaching of En...

In this article, we reviewed the previous literature about Suggestopedia and its derived theories and examined its main features in order to develop the Program “Studying Abroad: Erasmus,” implemented in the Royal Conservatory of Music of Granada “Victoria Eugenia,” and the results obtained were analyzed. From the program created, we have designed...

Estudio que se centra en cómo se gestionan los centros bilingües de Educación Secundaria en España y además de hacer un estudio en varias comunidades autónomas, ofrece una visión global y aporta un checklist que podría usarse en los centros bilingües como herramienta de reflexión y evaluación sobre la gestión y funcionamiento de los mismos.

Abstract: In this article, our main aim is to discuss diversity in the foreign-language classroom. It is understood that teachers have to cope with different learning levels and reflect on the lack of interest of primary-education pupils in learning English. Thus, we have carried out a study with primary-education pupils of a public school in Andal...

The exponential growth of bilingual and plurilingual education in public schools in Spain has been seen by many as an opportunity for real development of communicative competence among learners. The adoption of this type of program by schools, however, has not been without controversy, and just one of these challenges lies in the complex world of t...

The present research was realized during the academic year 2015–2016 with the students of the fifth grade of two primary schools in Granada, Spain. Some of them studied in a multicultural classroom, whereas the others were in a monocultural classroom. The instrument used was a PIC-N Imagination Test, used to measure the index of narrative creativit...

Background: Some of the developmental problems facing students with difficulties in learning are those related to auditory perception which, in turn, can negatively affect the individual’s learning process. Aim: Evaluating a training program prepared to develop the auditory discrimination skills of students who suffer from auditory discrimination...

p>This research has the aim of highlighting the importance of motivation in the process of learning English as a foreign language. For that purpose, some factors that affect motivation are described, using as a starting point the answers obtained from a questionnaire given to students in their fourth year of compulsory secondary education. The main...

Cuadernos de Pedagogía, Nº 458, Sección Monográfico, Julio 2015, Editorial Wolters Kluwer, ISBN‐ISSN: 2386‐6322 ¿Cuál es la situación real de los llamados centros bilingües?, ¿es adecuada la formación del profesorado? Y las familias del alumnado, ¿están satisfechas con esta enseñanza? El presente artículo quiere ofrecer una opinión que, desde la cr...

This research emerged from the idea of studying the opinion of students in the Bachelor's in Primary Education at the University of Granada on their training to teach immigrant students. We want to know if the students feel prepared to face this kind of teaching, if they feel they receive enough training for this challenge and if they know about th...

In this paper we propose the internalisation of school experience in order to encourage a more international preparation of teachers which favours their mobility throughout the European job market. We have based our proposal on a) a case study that briefly describes the exchange teaching practice programme established by the Spanish MEC in collabor...

This paper describes a study that focused on the presence of debilitating emotional and social factors in the English class of a Spanish secondary school. 167 participants demonstrated the existence of a negative classroom climate, anxieties and the limited use of social and emotional education to improve adolescent social and cognitive abilities....

RESUMEN: El uso de la lengua meta no supone el mismo reto en todos los contextos, aunque constituye en todos los casos un factor esencial para la consecución de mejores resultados. Este artículo recoge los principales hallazgos de un trabajo más amplio sobre el uso del español en un contexto de lengua extranjera y en el primer nivel de aprendizaje....

This paper reports on an EU-funded project (Ref: 134244-2007-UK-COMENIUS-CMP) that explored the impact of technology, notably video-conferencing, on primary school children's language learning in England, France and Spain. Data were gathered from the children in the project, their teachers and also from trainee teachers placed in the schools. The f...

Si tenemos que destacar un punto clave en nuestra sociedad sería la educación, base sobre la que se sustenta el futuro y raíz de una pacífica convivencia. Si entramos en detalle, vemos que la educación en general y la enseñanza de idiomas en particular se encuentran a años luz de los resultados que podríamos desear si nos comparamos con otras comun...

This study used a questionnaire to identify the perceptions of pupil misbehaviour held by a sample of 176 secondary school student teachers attending a one‐year initial teacher training course in Spain. The main factor accounting for secondary school pupils’ misbehaviour in lessons was reported to be ‘parents who do not instil pro‐school values in...

La primera justificación que se puede hacer para este trabajo es la necesidad que tienen los gobiernos europeos de fomentar el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras, especialmente a destacar el empeño del gobierno inglés por incluir el aprendizaje de éstas en los primeros niveles de la Educación Primaria o el interés de la Junta de Andalucía en el des...

Studies on Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) have reported several benefits for language learning. CMC, for example, does not demand for competition and provides for more equal participation. It also enables introverted learners to interact with others. The type of CMC system our research deals with is the one which occurs at different times, n...

This paper presents a research study on students' and teachers' perceptions, of several academic levels, in relation to several oral comprehension and oral production classroom techniques and provides information as to what extent these activities are considered useful for an efficient teaching and learning of English as a Foreign Language. To this...

In this study we offer quantitative data on the progress made by 70 students from the USA who took part in an intensive immersion course in Spanish as a second language, involving 175 hours of formal instruction and semi-formal instruction through programmed visits. We obtain results in linguistic and cultural competence based on three pre-tests ap...

The implementation of the European Higher Education Area and the proposal to revise teaching methodologies involve a new style of working for teachers in which the role of the student is enhanced through active involvement and independent work. Collaborative work is encouraged and teaching is planned to provide skills that will enable students to d...

Classroom organisation and control have turned out to be key concepts when planning a foreign language lesson nowadays. The way a teacher plans and develops a lesson, his/her attitude and position towards the students, the kind of activities selected and the time she/he confers to each of them, together with classroom and students' distribution, wi...

This paper aims to throw light into research studies and familiarise students of education and teacher trainees with the basic concept of research in the context of the classroom offering them a grounding in the research methods used to carry out research in Education. This work, first, sets the role of research according to the different significa...

Workbook for the Handbook (Abstract: The integration of the four skills in relation to texts, one of the basic tenets of modern language teaching, depends on the development of the discourse competence in the classroom. There is a direct relationship among the three concepts as only through the use of texts can we integrate skills and only through...

The integration of the four skills in relation to texts, one of the basic tenets of modern language teaching, depends on the development of the discourse competence in the classroom. There is a direct relationship among the three concepts as only through the use of texts can we integrate skills and only through an integrated, holistic approach to t...

Resumen For many students, learning a Second Language (SL) can either be a rewarding or a threatening experience. Recent studies claim that this is caused by the role that the affective domain plays in the learning process. Since the affective variables are considered the least understood by researchers in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), this p...

El presente trabajo pretende investigar la atención que se presta a la diversidad del alumnado dentro del aula de idiomas. Aunque las leyes que se aplican actualmente en el sistema educativo (LOGSE y LOCE) contemplan que el profesorado adecue su intervención, la atención al alumno y la evaluación, podemos decir que la realidad es bien distinta pues...

The goal of this paper is to see the role of the teacher as a source of motivation comparing it to others, as well as to get information from students in order to see which aspects of the teacher motivate them the most (physical, scientific, didactic or those related with the personality). We have also studied which factors are, according to the st...

Tesis Univ. de Granada. Departamento de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura. Leída el 11 de julio de 2003

Revisión de diferentes teorías sobre motivación, estudios realizados anteriormente. Se hace especial hincapié en el papel del profesor como agente motivador y se define la motivación como "una disposición individual hacia las tareas de aprendizaje que puede ser cambiada por sí mismo y por circunstancias que rodean el hecho de aprendizaje".

When the learning of a sec ond language takes place at ho me with the support of the neighbourhood and local schools, it seems to be learned with relative ease, sometimes automatically. But when the process happens in the classroom, the school social context and the special conditions under which such learning takes place have a decisive inf...