Jose Luis Estrada-Chichon

Universidad de Cádiz | UCA · Department of Teaching Language and Literature

Schooling practices founded upon the principles of Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) do not appear to have attained widespread adoption among teachers, consequently hindering the implementation of didactic measures that foster foreign language acquisition. These measures are closely entwined with the classroom climate, wherein the funda...

Inclusive Education in Bilingual and Plurilingual Programs assembles a compendium of international theoretical and practical contributions, shedding light on the intricate interplay between diversity and bilingual or plurilingual education. This book delves into the multifaceted realm of attention to diversity in education, where the focus is on ta...

Foreign language teaching should integrate the culture embodied in the target language. However, raising cultural awareness does not systematically produce the intended effects when considered an integral component in the teaching context. This quantitative research study focuses on creating a catalogue featuring elements representative of British...

Este trabajo analiza la formación inicial de futuros maestros AICLE (Aprendizaje Integrado de Contenido y Lengua Extranjera) en España. El objetivo es saber de primera mano si tanto su conocimiento sobre AICLE como sus habilidades idiomáticas adquiridos en la mención cualificadora en Lengua extranjera/AICLE (2019-2021) del Grado en Educación Primar...

This exploratory mixed-methods research involves an intra-/intergroup replication design to analyse the classroom-situated willingness to communicate (WTC) in English foreign language (EFL) student teachers of early childhood education according to grouping, group member familiarity, and EFL proficiency. The novelty lies in the adaptation from face...

The increasing of parental involvement in children’s EFL learning is highlighted (Rixon, 2019), with parents preferring to start as early as possible (Fleta, 2019). In response to this socio-educational demand, EFL teaching begins in preschool (0–6-years-olds) (Cortina-Pérez & Andúgar, 2020). However, parents still need professional support regardi...

A lockdown occurred in Spain in 2019-20 arising from COVID-19. This implied an adaptation from face-to-face to virtual teaching. Parents had to cope with their children's needs as for many learning areas (e.g., foreign languages). Taking into consideration children's English as a foreign language (EFL) learning, this work examines parents' (n=80) i...

This work deals with a meta-evaluation of the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) teaching sequences (N=46) for Primary education provided by the Andalusian Consejería de Educación, Spain, in German and English. The objective is to present an analysis of the sequences concerning the integration of CLIL methodological principles througho...

CLIL (Content Language Integrated Learning) teacher training represents an educational challenge, where language competence and performance play a key role. So, the objective of the present research paper is to uncover the training needs of pre-service CLIL teachers (i.e., bachelor’s degree in Primary Education students, 2020-21) at the University...

Background: Classroom-based research in second language acquisition (SLA) has focused in the last decade on the pedagogical implications concerning the mental representation of language but has not considered the didactic training of pre-service teachers. Empirical analyses have been concerned almost exclusively with the linguistic development of f...

Interest in the field of the native-speaker factor in English teaching is recent, the starting point being the work by Medgyes (1992). Several studies have explored learner and teacher preferences, although no study has investigated this variable in Galicia (Spain) and, more specifically, at the Bachillerato educational stage (16-18 years). Therefo...

A lockdown occurred in Spain in 2019-20 arising from COVID-19. This implied an adaptation from face-to-face to virtual teaching. Parents had to cope with their children's needs as for many learning areas (e.g., foreign languages). Taking into consideration children's English as a foreign language (EFL) learning, this work examines parents' (n=80) i...

This research study analyses the purposes of the use of Spanish as first language (L1) in the English as Foreign Language (EFL) classroom in a primary school in Cadiz (Andalusia), Spain. The work involves a descriptive mixed-methods, analysis in which data were collected, mainly, through systematic observation of EFL classes (N = 15) and teacher in...

This research article reveals current English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) lecturers’ assessment practices in a medium-sized (i.e., 12,000 students) private university in Madrid, Spain. The investigation aims to analyse how EMI assessment is conducted; what are the most popular assessment tools that EMI lecturers use; and the role that English...

Knowing what defines ‘effective teaching’ contributes significantly to the appropriateness and validity of the instruction provided to pre-service teachers during their initial training. This may help them to perform as expert teachers before finishing their university training. This study aims to reflect upon the most significant models and theore...

Mindfulness is a relaxation technique that has been associated with positive effects when used as a coping strategy for stress and anxiety. In this regard, the objectives of this article are to investigate how mindfulness could help improve adolescents’ ability to regulate their attention, emotion, behaviour and thinking; learn English as a Foreign...

Este trabajo pretende descubrir necesidades formativas de estudiantes universitarios o maestros AICLE en formación inicial (N=19) a partir de la presentación, explicación y resolución de problemas matemáticos en inglés como lengua extranjera para cuatro operaciones: suma, resta, multiplicación y división. El objetivo es determinar si dichas necesid...

Developing an accurate second language competence different from the mother tongue has become an essential skill in today's globalized world, and therefore it is a highly valued and demanded learning among the main educational institutions and models. However, it is a complex process that is influenced by numerous and, in many cases, unknown factor...

This work examines the current situation of monolingual and bi-/multilingual families on how they help their children, Reception students (4-5 years old) at a British school in Madrid, Spain, to acquire, preserve and strengthen minority languages at home. The results show contrasts between monolingual and bi-/multilingual families, although most of...

Este trabajo explora las posibilidades de aplicación de emoji como elementos visuales con naturaleza conceptual al desarrollo de la escritura en ámbitos académicos para lenguas materna y extranjera. Los resultados se centran en el análisis de 620 emoji insertados en comentarios realizados por estudiantes (N=18) del Grado en Educación Primaria (2019...

This work analyses the use of Spanish (mother tongue) by pre-service teachers (N=55) during a class activity that consists of explaining and solving Primary Education (6-12) mathematical problems in English (foreign language). The objectives are established in the form of three research questions about the amount of frequency of Spanish; its functi...

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo investigar los hábitos de lectura extensiva o por placer e intensiva o académica y su relación con el aprendizaje de idiomas en estudiantes universitarios. El trabajo se desarrolló en una universidad pública de España con alumnos del Grado en Educación Primaria del itinerario plurilingüe. Se trata de una investigaci...

This research reflects on the absence of pedagogical intervention as a possibility of error correction technique per se for oral errors in foreign language teaching. This proposal is proved using the results obtained after the application of three research tools (classroom observation, questionnaires, and interviews) in a Higher Education context....

This paper evaluates the application possibilities of the emoji available in the WhatsApp chat app to the development of writing skills in English as a Foreign Language among University students. The quasi-experimental design of the research was developed with a sample of students (N=22) that made up the census population of a subject pertaining th...

RESUMEN:Este trabajo valora las posibilidades de aplicación de los emoji disponibles en la aplicación de chat WhatsApp al desarrollo de la competencia escrita en inglés como lengua extranjera entre estudiantes universitarios. El diseño cuasi experimental de la investigación se desarrolló con una muestra de estudiantes (N=22) que conformaban la pobl...

En el presente trabajo se reflexiona acerca de la ausencia de intervención correctiva como una posibilidad de técnica de corrección per se para errores orales en la enseñanza de idiomas. Esta propuesta encuentra su justificación en los resultados obtenidos tras la aplicación de tres herramientas de investigación (observación de clases, cuestionario...

Este trabajo analiza creencias y actitudes de profesores en formación sobre la corrección de errores en la enseñanza-aprendizaje del inglés como lengua extranjera en educación infantil. Los problemas derivan de la aplicación de esquemas didácticos previstos para etapas educativas donde los usos oral y escrito de la lengua meta conviven de forma equ...

This chapter examines the state-of-the-art of EMI lecturing at Cádiz University, Spain. The rationale of the research lies in the lecturers’ main challenges for issues related to the use of EFL and EMI methodologies. Data were collected from a questionnaire (Borg, 2015) to which EMI lecturers responded (N=22; 69%) and from a focus group carried out...

This chapter examines the state-of-the-art of EMI lecturing at Cadiz University, Spain. The rationale of the research lies in the lecturers' main challenges for issues related to the use of EFL and EMI methodologies. Data were collected from a questionnaire to which EMI lecturers responded (N=22; 69%) and from a focus group carried out with a cross...

This study outlines the beliefs of undergraduate students of Early Childhood Education at a medium-sized public University (approx. 20,000 students) in Spain in relation to the concept of 'grammar' in language teaching. It is based on the students’ pre-university language learning background in contrast to their current language training as part of...

Objetivo El objetivo era analizar la relación entre las técnicas de corrección explícitas/implícitas para errores orales en dirección productiva y los objetivos docentes de forma y significado en contextos de enseñanza de idiomas y Aprendizaje Integrado de Contenido y Lenguas Extranjeras (AICLE), Metodología desarrollada La metodología se articuló...

L’educació bilingüe suposa una integració curricular a més a més d’una veritable innovació metodològica. No obstant això, quan observem la realitat dels diversos contextos AICLE, comprovem que, sovint, aquestes noves metodologies no s’han incorporat a l’àmbit de l’avaluació. En aquest artícle s’ofereix un panorama global de les pràctiques d’avaluac...

This work analyses a set of foreign language teaching practices in terms of the implications with respect to the strengthening and development of linguistic creativity according to two factors: the number of errors in oral communication and the target language uses, depending on whether those uses are formal or non-formal. The data were obtained th...

Bilingual Education implies curricular integration along with new teaching procedures. However, a closer look at CLIL contexts shows that, very frequently, these new methodologies have not been integrated in assessment. This article provides a comprehensive overview of CLIL assessment practices in the context of the CAM Bilingual Project in Spain....

Objetivo: Analizar la relación entre las técnicas de corrección explícitas/implícitas para errores orales en dirección productiva y los objetivos docentes de forma y significado en contextos de enseñanza de idiomas y Aprendizaje Integrado de Contenido y Lenguas Extranjeras (AICLE). Método: La metodología se articuló a partir de la recolección de da...

Objective: In this article we review the support of several representative Primary Education schools in Spain (2015-16) for a pedagogical renewal that move away from the traditional model. Method: The methodology focuses on the study of outstanding bibliography, interviews with significant members, observation of centres and analysis of the content...

In this paper it is proposed that the cognitive value of error is a “natural” part of the process of acquiring a foreign language. For that, we consider both the emotional consequences derived from the teacher´s correction (fear, shame, etc.) and the cognitive consequences that affect the learner´s emotional stability and interfere with his/her int...

This paper explores the possibilities of updating the concept of “error treatment”. It confronts the methodological models of foreign languages learning used more widely nowadays based essentially on the study of the language code throughout the consideration of a non-existent native speaker prototype, with a “language-acquisition based teaching” (...