Browsing by Subject "multilingualism"

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    Análisis inicial de la enseñanza del idioma español por medio de actividades deportivas en Varsovia (Polonia)
    (Universidad de Zaragoza, Asociación Universitaria de Formación del Profesorado (AUFOP), 2020) Maliszewska, Anna Aleksandra
    El presente artículo muestra la metodología utilizada para la enseñanza del idioma español por medio de las actividades deportivas (Educación Física) en la escuela trilingüe de Varsovia (Polonia). En este estudio han participado 102 niños y niñas de 7 a 12 año cuyo profesorado de actividades deportivas es nativo español y desarrolla la material únicamente en dicho idioma. Los resultados muestran que en un periodo de entre 3 y 5 años el alumnado adquiere un nivel de español igual o superior al B1. Pese a que no se ha podido establecer relación entre el aprendizaje de actividades deportivas y el nivel lingüístico, atendiendo a los resultados académicos de quienes tienen un nivel bajo de español, el contexto de las actividades deportivas se vislumbra como favorable en el desarrollo de la competencia motriz.
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    Bilingualism is always cognitively advantageous, but this doesn’t mean what you think it means
    (Frontiers, 2022) Bullock Oliveira, Maggie; Sanches de Oliveira, Guilherme; Filosofía
    For decades now a research question has firmly established itself as a staple of psychological and neuroscientific investigations on language, namely the question of whether and how bilingualism is cognitively beneficial, detrimental or neutral. As more and more studies appear every year, it seems as though the research question itself is firmly grounded and can be answered if only we use the right experimental manipulations and subject the data to the right analysis methods and interpretive lens. In this paper we propose that, rather than merely improving prior methods in the pursuit of evidence in one direction or another, we would do well to carefully consider whether the research question itself is as firmly grounded as it might appear to be. We identify two bodies of research that suggest the research question to be highly problematic. In particular, drawing from work in sociolinguistics and in embodied cognitive science, we argue that the research question of whether bilingualism is cognitively advantageous or not is based on problematic assumptions about language and cognition. Once these assumptions are addressed head on, a straightforward answer to the question arises, but the question itself comes to seem to be a poor starting point for research. After examining why this is so, we conclude by exploring some implications for future research.