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The Collaborative construction of knowledge through online forums for the development of sociocognitive writing skills
(2016)
Changes in the production, transmission and access to information generated by information and communication technologies (ICTs) require new skills and offer cognitive and social opportunities for the construction of ...
B-learning in an EFL college class : creativity, critical thinking and collaboration
(2015)
Research in educational technology is relatively new and the literature on the topic offers a variety of approaches. One of the most recent research trends aims at exploring and analyzing the phenomena that accompany the ...
Self-monitoring based on agreed-on assessment criteria in EFL writing
(2015)
Fostering learner autonomy has become more important than ever before and, as a result, the relevance of language learning strategy training is widely acknowledged. Strategies-based instruction is a learner-focused approach ...
Understanding and producing multimodal messages in secondary school through webquest
(2015)
Themain focus of this presentation is to shed light on how secondary schoolstudents can be guided to recognize, decode and produce multimodal messages tofoster critical thinking and responsible citizenship. To achieve this ...
Ecotranslation : a journey into the Wild through the Road Less Travelled
(2015)
How and when are ecological values born? Which is the human perspective of the natural world and how is this conveyed through language? How are current environmental issues represented and subsequently transmitted through ...
Self-monitoring based on agreed-on assessment criteria in EFL writing
(2015)
Learner autonomy has become a very important aspect of English Language Teaching and, as a result, the relevance of language learning strategy training to foster learners' autonomous behaviour is now widely acknowledged. ...
Workshops to help foreign language learners of English develop effective reading strategies
(2017)
The final objective of this study is to evaluate whether reading sessions for university learners of English as a foreign language help students become critical and effective readers of particular genres used in foreign ...
Designing authentic activities for a university course : an eclectic approach
(2017)
The design of authentic activities is a central element of most current approaches to language teaching. This paper aims at showing how we have designed authentic activities for English Language I students at the School ...
High School Learners' beliefs and their Influence on the development of lexical competence
(2015)
The aim of this paper is to explore the learners´ beliefs regarding vocabulary learning. It analyses the results of a survey and two vocabulary tests carried out at three secondary schools in Córdoba, two state-run and one ...
English Writing Assessment in an EFL university context : comparing results from teacher reports and teachers´ comments on essays
(2017)
This study is part of the work done in the context of a larger research project titled "Criteria for assessing foreign language writing skills (English) at undergraduate level", which aims at exploring English Language II ...