Evidence-based practice has become a cornerstone to the development of many professions over the last twenty years, ranging from health and social sciences to education. Research based on reflective practice provides the impulse...En els últims vint anys, pràctiques basades en…

Abstract This article sets out the objectives, approaches and organisational development of a still on-going inter-university literature-teaching project entitled ‘Between the Lines: Comprehensive Reading of Literary Texts in a Foreign Language’, which was awarded a two-year grant by the Catalan…

Résumé Dans cette présente recherche, un dispositif pour l’enseignement de la ponctuation visant à remédier aux lacunes des élèves en situation d’écriture a été expérimenté. Il s’inscrit dans un perspectif socioconstructiviste. Les effets de ce dispositif sur les performances en…

Abstract The present article aims to meticulously focus on the integration of the assessment and instruction which leads to a new approach, Dynamic Assessment, based on the principles of Socio-cultural Theory of Mind (SCT) developed by L. S. Vygotsky and…

Abstract Professor Steve Walsh is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the School of ECLS of the University of Newcastle in the United Kingdom. He is the module leader for ‘Teacher Development for TESOL’, ‘Learning and teaching in Higher Education’, ‘Discourse…

Oferim a lectores i lectors una àmplia gamma de temes en el darrer volum de l'any 2012. El primer article, escrit pels membres d'un grup de recerca al Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona…

AbstractTeachers are highly influenced by their beliefs, which are related to their ideas, to their views of the world and to their values and conceptions of their environment. Departing from the premise that teachers' beliefs are one of the most…

AbstractThis article is based on a subset of data gathered in a bi-national PhD study regarding measures of parental encouragement when comparing immigrant background and native students (n=233) in Catalonia (Spain) and California. The ANOVA means comparisons of parental encouragement…

Resum L’article analitza com es planteja l’ensenyament de la gramàtica en llibres de text de llengua castellana i llengua catalana de la secundària obligatòria i se centra en el tractament del mode verbal, un contingut gramatical de gran complexitat epistemològica.…

This volume stems from the assumption that metalinguistic awareness, a skill developed during first language acquisition, is also fundamental to the development of second language competence in children. (...)Este volumen se deriva de la hipótesis de que la conciencia metalingüística,…