Lidia Mañoso-Pacheco

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | UAM · Departamento de Filologías y su Didáctica

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...

ontemporary Western societies coexist with diverse factors that continually redefine and transform them in response to the myriad social demands they face. Factors such as globalization, migration, advancements in information and communication technologies, the convergence of distinct religions, and the recent global COVID-19 pandemic often instiga...

The decision to pursue a career in teaching is usually driven by vocational interests, with the social image of teachers playing a pivotal role in this choice. This study endeavors to explore the influence of gender on the perception of teaching and its impact on the inclination of preservice teachers towards vocational training. The research, base...

This book review evaluates Perspectives and good practices in English language teacher training by Isabel Alonso, Raquel Criado, Gloria Luque, and Laura Torres. This volume is a valuable source for both pre-service and in-service teachers, by providing practical guidelines for their professional development. This book includes current topics about...

Tras la aprobación en 2015 de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible por parte de los Estados Miembros de la ONU, entre los que se encuentra España, hemos sido testigos del compromiso por parte de los firmantes por hacer efectiva la igualdad entre hombres y mujeres, tratando de impulsar el empoderamiento de las mujeres en todas sus formas. Pa...

Code-switching is a linguistic phenomenon that is widespread among the bilingual communities of primary school learners. Despite the school administrators' disapproval, teachers commonly resort to this practice as a pedagogical tool to facilitate the dual-focused aim pursued through the content and language integrated learning (CLIL) approach. The...

La decisión de convertirse en docente suele ser vocacional para una gran mayoría de educadores y en ella guarda especial relevancia la imagen social que proyecta el docente en el discente. Con una muestra de 1469 participantes, este estudio pretende describir el rol que tiene el factor sexo en distintas cuestiones relacionadas con la imagen del doc...

This study aims to examine the opinions of prospective pre-primary and primary teachers about Madrid's regional Bilingual Programme in Spain, assessing the correlations between their self-perceived level of English and their positioning concerning the effectiveness of the regional programme. Although there is a growing body of research in the field...

Los acontecimientos de la vida están formados por las prácticas sociolingüistas y culturales del grupo social al que pertenecemos, formando así nuestra identidad. Debemos tener cuidado en no mostrar aquellas diferencias que no son toleradas por dicho grupo para evitar conflictos, manipulando la verdad. Para evidenciar este comportamiento hemos empl...

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...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the COVID-19 outbreak has had a clear impact on global mental health, given rise to an increase in mental disorders such as depression or psychosis (2020, March 18). This fact has put the spotlight on developing ways of providing psychosocial support, particularly amongst the younger population. Th...

Second language acquisition as a process is subject to factors related to the student, the teacher, the learning structure and learning organisation, and also to the learning environment. The research hereby presented aims to establish the relevance of the above-mentioned factors in the process of second language learning. The study addresses the p...

In the last few years, teachers in Spain have experienced numerous changes in their methodology due to the implementation of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in education. This research provides a survey-based analysis of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers that assesses their attitude towards digital resources and the curr...

The emergence of new teaching approaches following the principles of the communicative approach has put the spotlight on the importance of sounds in the teaching-learning process. In the past, sounds were regarded as a fundamental aspect for developing oral skills, namely, speaking and listening. With the new trends, in particular Synthetic Phonics...

The English lexicon has undergone a constant evolution in its attempt to reflect new historical, social, cultural and technological developments and realities, which have resulted in the appearance of totally new terms, the so-called neologisms. Progressing in a language is about increasing one’s own range of expression through lexical collocations...

Despite the extensive search that has been done on the phenomenon of evidentiality in the discourse, i.e. the coding of the information source, there are still terminological and conceptual discrepancies that need to be laid out. The present paper presents a theoretical framework of evidentiality. It starts with an examination of the scope of evide...

This paper proposes a corpus-based examination of the discourse of eliteness and personalisation news values in the information source. To that end, the study compares digital news in British and Spanish corpora. The results reveal a tendency to quote elites, which are frequently constructed by means of recognised names from politics, inanimate ref...

This paper proposes a corpus-based examination of the discourse of eliteness and personalisation news values in the information source. To that end, the study compares digital news in British and Spanish corpora. The results reveal a tendency to quote elites, which are frequently constructed by means of recognised names from politics, inanimate ref...

Notwithstanding the wide-ranging investigations into the phenomenon of reportive evidentiality, there is still a need for clarification of its scope and related notions. This paper presents a theoretical revision of reportive evidentials, i.e., those cases in which the speaker/writer reports the evidence given by another information source. The rev...

According to many relevant scientific researches conducted in the last few years [1], [2], [3], the study of music-related subjects implies greater development of both intellectual and executive functions of students. Those functions comprise musical intelligence [4] and the rest of multiple intelligences [5], as well as the general and factorial i...

Promoted by some of the most critical sectors of the education community, the history of the Spanish pedagogical renewal (19th and 20th centuries) shows all kinds of experiences representing an innovative, committed and transformative way to understand both pedagogical processes and the school. This article shows the final results of the historical...

Objetivo: Mostrar las raíces teóricas del conectivismo en las principales teorías históricas sobre la adquisición de conocimiento y el aprendizaje, ya que se trata del paradigma educativo más útil para entender el aprendizaje en la era digital y los procesos de e-learning. Método: Se realiza una exhaustiva recopilación de fuentes originales pertine...

Este artículo revisa las principales teorías sobre la adquisición de conocimiento y el aprendizaje, justificando el surgimiento del Conectivismo como el paradigma educativo más útil para entender el aprendizaje en la era digital y los procesos de e-learning. Se presenta al conectivismo como una evolución respecto a las escuelas anteriores y no una...

Este artículo revisa las principales teorías sobre la adquisición de conocimiento y el aprendizaje, justificando el surgimiento del Conectivismo como el paradigma educativo más útil para entender el aprendizaje en la era digital y los procesos de e-learning. Se presenta al conectivismo como una evolución respecto a las escuelas anteriores y no una...

Women have traditionally been defined in journalistic studies as the 'unaccessed voice group' due to their underrepresentation in most media coverage, a fact commonly described in linguistics as 'symbolic annihilation' (Caldas-Coulthard 2002; Armstrong 2004). Although many scholars state that linguistic stereotypes have been weakening over time, th...

Taking into account that the first virtual reality viewers started to be marketed in Spain at the end of 2016 (Gadelha, 2018; Parong and Mayer, 2018; Rizzo and Koenig, 2017) [1–3], a questionnaire was designed in order to show the social and demographic profile of this first generation of users of virtual reality experiences, itemising their ages,...

The choice of the reporting style in news reports is a powerful tool through which journalists can exhibit their position towards the information source, the state of affairs and/or the participants included in the quote. Despite the conventional distinction established in the literature between direct and indirect speech, recent research on journa...

The use of reportives in news articles can position the readership to take a positive or negative stance towards the state of affairs and/or the participants included in a report (Fowler 1994). This paper proposes a taxonomy of one of its key elements in press media: the source of information. The proposed classification, based on a corpus of news...

The degree of writer's commitment or the way in which the stance towards the truth-value of the reported information is suggested in reporting verbs, has been the centre of analysis in various linguistic studies (Thompson 1996; Chen 2007). This paper examines this parameter by means of a corpus-based survey, starting from the understanding of commi...