Mari Carmen Campoy-Cubillo

Jaume I University | UJI · Department of English Studies

Este capítulo expone una propuesta de uso de diccionarios online como herramienta de aprendizaje de léxico y fraseología de carácter idiomático. Se plantea cómo desarrollar mediante tareas específicas la habilidad de trasladar el significado de un concepto figurado a otro real. Se diseñan dos tareas que fomentan el desarrollo de las habilidades de...

Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) projects aim at achieving a common goal through teamwork and cooperation. Collaborative skills are among the top soft skills employers want from their employees. COIL as a teaching and learning method develops reflexivity skills since at the core of a COIL experience students are asked to examine t...

Este capítulo tiene como finalidad el estudio de la diversidad funcional en el marco de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) y sus implicaciones en la enseñanza superior dentro del ámbito de la enseñanza y aprendizaje de lenguas. En concreto, se tratan los ODS 4 y 8 y se plantean a partir de ellos adaptaciones necesarias sobre la base de la...

Metaphors are an intrinsic part of thought and language that allow us to construe a cognitive domain in terms of another domain. Metaphors are especially relevant to the study of idioms, inasmuch as idioms are commonly underlain by metaphorical patterns of conceptualization. As figurativeness is a common phenomenon in everyday language, tackling me...

This chapter deals with multimodal listening in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) contexts in higher education. The chapter is structured as follows. First, we discuss multimodal listening assessment from the CEFR perspective and propose a revised set of multimodal descriptors. Then, we analyse a video, Introduction to Crime Scenes (University of...

This article aims to explore new ways to improve dictionary skills for language learners by promoting the use of active dictionary rubrics. It also tries to get a deeper understanding on how students perceive dictionaries before and after this type of training in dictionary use. To this end, a total of 75 students participated in the study and answ...

This study examines how the syntagmatic and the organizational paradigms (Campoy-Cubillo 2019) are essential in the design of an adequate university environment for students who are blind. Although both paradigms are necessarily interconnected, this study will focus on the use of online lexicographical tools within the syntagmatic paradigm. In a hi...

Training and research in special educational needs (SENs) are crucial in order to properly implement strategies that foster inclusive education at university. Today more than ever, education is connected to new job opportunities, success and social and educational mobility. A university policy should meet the increasing demands from many groups of...

In this study, we analyse the impact of dictionary use training in students who took their BA in foreign language teaching degree and are training to become teachers in the MA programme. A dual perception is tackled here: (1) Students as users of dictionaries in their degree studies, after getting some training in dictionary use (2.a) the same stud...

Effective use of dictionaries should be part of the language learning curriculum. Dictionary skills are relevant while learning languages in formal contexts, they are useful for students, and durable in time since they promote lifelong learning linguistic skills. (E-)dictionary skills are defined as "the abilities required on the part of the dictio...

In specialised pedagogical lexicography, there are four basic categories which are central to any lexicographical theory aimed at students: users, users’ situation, users’ needs and the assistance/help of dictionaries ([1])). However, although it seems logical to believe that dictionaries are devised and created accordingly, this is not the reality...

One of the advantages of online dictionaries is their multimodal affordances and the fact that students feel more attracted towards a dictionary model that enhances usability options, that is, a model where reduced search time and user-friendliness is more evident thanks to the e-dictionary digital design. There is, however, little user guidance re...

Genuine instances of communication are multimodal in nature. Thus, important aspects of effective communication such as gestures, facial expression, visual context, or interpersonal distance, are usually present in listening events and participate in the communicative act, creating a given multimodal message (Jewitt 2009). The Common European Fram...

Genuine instances of communication are multimodal in nature. Thus, important aspects of effective communication such as gestures, facial expression, visual context, or interpersonal distance, are usually present in listening events and participate in the communicative act, creating a given multimodal message (Jewitt 2009). The Common European Frame...

In this chapter, the LSP listening construct is described from a multimodal perspective. One of the key issues for LSP curriculum design is to consider the ability to listen and its importance in educational and occupational contexts. In this regard, a multimodal approach to the construct implies analyzing the ways in which listening skills are tau...

In this article we are concerned with the design of diagnostic assessment tools of spoken English as a Foreign Language (EFL) for students with dysarthria. To this end, a higher education student with dysarthria participated in our case study. Tests in the student’s mother tongue (Spanish) and in English were devised and their results analyzed in o...

Assessment criteria for listening comprehension tests (Buck 2001, Nation and J. Newton 2009) have traditionally focused on understanding audio input. However, real instances of communication are multimodal in nature. When we listen to someone we do so in a specific context in which other communicative modes such as gestures, facial expression, visu...

Campoy-Cubillo, M.C Querol-Julián, M. Defining the listening construct in multimodal environments Listening is… "the active process of receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken and/or non-verbal messages" (International Listening Association, 1995, p.4) https://pixabay.com/es/proyector-proyector-cinematogr%C3%A1fico-361784/ Cam...

This article discusses the role of dictionary skills in language learning as part of professional reference skills and as life-long language learning skills. It advocates for the integration of these skills in the language teaching and assessment cycle in a systematic way. Drawing on Nesi’s (Dictionaries in language learning. Recommendations, natio...

The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) places an important and active role for listening skills, within the communicative activities that English language learners need to develop. A number of situations are described within the framework, including understanding interaction between native speakers, listening as a member of...

This chapter puts forward a theoretical base for the design of a framework to assess multimodal listening. In order to support the need to adopt a broader perspective beyond speech, videotexts have been examined to describe significant interweaving modes. SL/ FL students have to be able to decode meaningful messages so they may construct meaning as...

Editor of the issue. This is the second volume in Language Value that is thoroughly devoted to the issue of Verb Particle Combinations (VPCs) also known and analysed under different linguistic trends and terms as phrasal/prepositional verbs, compound verbs, discontinuous verbs or multiword verbs, among others. For the sake of simplicity we will use...

Editor of the special issue. This is the first of two issues dealing with multiword patterns. The main focus of these issues is that of phrasal verbs with a special emphasis on the semantic patterns from which they arise. This first issue on this topic includes five articles related to the study of English particles as part of phrasal verbs and in...

As an alternative to the use of dictionary workbooks a group of 85 chemistry students were asked to produce their own dictionaries. Students were told to use the texts they had been referring to during the course and to design a dictionary according to their own needs. The aims of this project were (1) for the students: (a) to revise vocabulary for...

New phrasal and prepositional verbs are created in the English language to express new concepts. In this sense, research and innovations carried out in scientific and technical fields may make use of these verb and particle combinations to phrase new thoughts. In this article, the use of phrasal and prepositional verbs in specialised texts is discu...