Zeus Plasencia Carballo

Universidad de La Laguna | ULL · Department of Specific Didactics

In the last decades, Foreign Language Teaching (FLT) has been the centre of great interest among academics and professionals concerned about the ways to improve both the language teaching methodologies and the role of teachers in guiding and assisting students’ learning processes. Nevertheless, among the four modes of communication – Common Europea...

El impulso de metodologías didácticas basadas en la inmersión lingüística es un asunto en boga sobre el que las administraciones educativas españolas están trabajando, tomando como referencia el enfoque plurilingüe europeo. Sin embargo, los resultados obtenidos en distintas encuestas especializadas sugieren que la destreza oral de los españoles, en...

The rise of CLIL in many European countries, as in the case of Spain, has manifested certain discoordination between teachers who use the same language (English) as vehicle for communication in different subjects (CLIL and non-CLIL subjects). This paper seeks for highlighting the necessity of unifying key expressions in English-at different educati...

The teaching of foreign languages has proved to be as necessary as the current globalized world demands more and varied codes to keep communication between individuals from different places. Thus, we could state that English has become a kind of ―lingua franca‖which, somehow, enables communication at a higher level as its influence expands to every...

Among the seven skills that promote the acquisition of a language, we have focused on the listening comprehension, due to the difficulty it entails when learning a second language and, generally, the least worked skill in Foreign Languages lessons. With a view to identify the most relevant aspects during the development of listening comprehension a...