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CIEX Journ@l, Oct 26, 2021

De acuerdo con la declaración del 27 de abril de 2020 de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS... more De acuerdo con la declaración del 27 de abril de 2020 de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), el 31 de diciembre de 2019 se confirmó la presencia de un nuevo coronavirus, causante de múltiples casos de neumonía en la ciudad de Wuhan, China. Por su propagación y gravedad, el 11 de marzo de 2020 la OMS declaró que se había alcanzado el nivel de pandemia (OMS, 2020). En México, el 24 de marzo de 2020, en el Diario Oficial de la Federación (DOF) se publicó un acuerdo para establecer medidas preventivas y mitigar los riesgos de salud provocados por el SARS-CoV2 (covid-19). Esta pandemia ha hecho del 2020 un año sumamente retador para el mundo entero. En Aguascalientes, México, continuamos con la vida habitual durante el primer trimestre; sin embargo, la última semana de marzo nuestra universidad emprendió medidas sanitarias para proteger a su comunidad, entre las que se encontraban el confinamiento, la implementación de cursos a distancia y la suspensión de todos los encuentros aca...

N ot long ago it was common to find instructors teaching languages, particularly Eng-lish in non-... more N ot long ago it was common to find instructors teaching languages, particularly Eng-lish in non-English-speaking countries, without a degree and with little to no experience or expertise. But today, governmental agencies like Mexico's Secretaría de Educación Pública (Ministry of Public Education) have begun to require that teachers have a degree that demonstrates sufficient skill and language proficiency. Nevertheless, being able to speak English and having a degree do not necessarily lead to purposeful language teaching, particularly with a traditional instructional approach that isolates language skills without appropriate contextual clues in a classroom environment where the teacher is didactic expert and students complacently follow along. Traditional methods of teaching English often include translating structures from the target language to the mother tongue; although this method may seem antiquated, it is still commonly practiced. Indeed, those teachers who were taught b...

Analyzing the writing skill of English language learners emerges from understanding the accuracy,... more Analyzing the writing skill of English language learners emerges from understanding the accuracy, fluency, and complexity of texts and classifying written errors according to syntax, morphology, and lexicon. In this quantitative descriptive-analysis study, the participants included thirty one Spanish-speaking, Mexican English language learners who were enrolled in an English skills development course designed for B1-B2 English language learners. The participants had 50 minutes to write a narrative essay based on an image that served as context. Of the 31 texts, the findings show that 901 total errors were classified into three metalinguistic categories (i.e., syntax, morphology, and lexicon) and in terms of written development (i.e., accuracy, fluency, and complexity), suggesting that a holistic approach to instruction and assessment in the English language classroom can provide a clearer context when developing writing skills. Resumen La habilidad de escritura de aprendices del idioma inglés emerge de entender las dimensiones de precisión, fluidez y complejidad de textos, así como de la clasificación de errores escritos según la sintaxis, la morfología y el léxico. Treinta y un participantes mexicanos que estudian inglés en un curso de desarrollo de habilidades del idioma, el cual fue diseñado a un nivel B1-B2 de dominio, participaron en este estudio con el objetivo de clasificar sus errores de escritura. A los participantes se les mostró una imagen de dos personas abrazándose para que escribieran un ensayo narrativo en un tiempo de 50 minutos. Los resultados muestran que la dimensión de precisión puede ser expresada en tres categorías metalingüísticas: sintaxis, morfología, y léxico; considerando esto, las dimensiones de fluidez y complejidad también pueden ser medidas en el desarrollo de la habilidad de escritura. Las implicaciones de este estudio sugieren que un enfoque holístico puede proveer un contexto más claro al desarrollar la habilidad de escritura para las áreas de evaluación e instrucción del idioma inglés en el aula. "minimal terminable units" that would include "exactly one main clause plus whatever subordinate clauses are attached to that main clause" (p. 737). So, in addition to analyzing accuracy metalinguistically, accuracy can also be expressed as a ratio, representing one's development at a particular time or can show growth by comparing different accuracy ratios over time. Fluency & Grammatical Complexity This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attibution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

F. (2009). Aflatoxinas totales en raciones de bovinos y AFM1 en leche cruda obtenida en establos ... more F. (2009). Aflatoxinas totales en raciones de bovinos y AFM1 en leche cruda obtenida en establos del estado de Jalisco, México. Técnica Pecuaria de México, 47(2), 223-230. Recuperado de https://cienciaspecuarias.inifap.gob.

The purpose of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of the types of errors English langua... more The purpose of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of the types of errors English language learning writers make so that an analysis of such errors can later be matched to individual linguistic profiles. Only through this awareness can a discussion about differentiating assessment of the writing skill become fruitful. This study seeks to answer the following question: What are the salient syntactic, morphological, and lexical errors encountered by second-semester students of a bachelor's degree program in English language teaching in composition writing?

The purpose of this study is to verify the efficiency of VanPatten's (1996) Processing Instructio... more The purpose of this study is to verify the efficiency of VanPatten's (1996) Processing Instruction model in the teaching of English relative clauses in two different groups of participants: an intervention group and a traditional group. These two groups of students were enrolled in a BA in ELT. This study was conducted online due to the pandemic of Covid-19, where a pre-test and a post-test were administered to the intervention group, and only the post-test was administered to the traditional group. The statistical analysis shows a significant difference between the intervention group scores on the pre-test and post-test as well as a significant difference between the traditional group and intervention group. For the qualitative part of the study, the intervention group completed a feedback questionnaire, and the results show that most students consider that employing this model for language teaching is an effective approach in the teaching of relative clauses.

This study explored the relationship between implicit and explicit knowledge of 13 second languag... more This study explored the relationship between implicit and explicit knowledge of 13 second language (L2) English grammar points and the relationship of each type of knowledge with language learning aptitude and working memory capacity in 90 Mexican learners of L2 English at three different levels of proficiency (Level 5, Level 7, Level 9). An elicited imitation test and an oral narrative test were used to measure implicit knowledge, and a metalinguistic knowledge test was used to measure explicit knowledge. With respect to language learning aptitude and working memory, the former was operationalised by the LLAMA test, and the latter by the backward digit span test. With regard to the relationship between implicit and explicit knowledge, implicit knowledge correlated positively and weakly with explicit knowledge while an analysis by grammar point showed a non-significant negative correlation approaching significance between implicit and explicit scores. These results indicate that lea...

CIEX Journ@l, Oct 26, 2021

De acuerdo con la declaración del 27 de abril de 2020 de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS... more De acuerdo con la declaración del 27 de abril de 2020 de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), el 31 de diciembre de 2019 se confirmó la presencia de un nuevo coronavirus, causante de múltiples casos de neumonía en la ciudad de Wuhan, China. Por su propagación y gravedad, el 11 de marzo de 2020 la OMS declaró que se había alcanzado el nivel de pandemia (OMS, 2020). En México, el 24 de marzo de 2020, en el Diario Oficial de la Federación (DOF) se publicó un acuerdo para establecer medidas preventivas y mitigar los riesgos de salud provocados por el SARS-CoV2 (covid-19). Esta pandemia ha hecho del 2020 un año sumamente retador para el mundo entero. En Aguascalientes, México, continuamos con la vida habitual durante el primer trimestre; sin embargo, la última semana de marzo nuestra universidad emprendió medidas sanitarias para proteger a su comunidad, entre las que se encontraban el confinamiento, la implementación de cursos a distancia y la suspensión de todos los encuentros aca...

N ot long ago it was common to find instructors teaching languages, particularly Eng-lish in non-... more N ot long ago it was common to find instructors teaching languages, particularly Eng-lish in non-English-speaking countries, without a degree and with little to no experience or expertise. But today, governmental agencies like Mexico's Secretaría de Educación Pública (Ministry of Public Education) have begun to require that teachers have a degree that demonstrates sufficient skill and language proficiency. Nevertheless, being able to speak English and having a degree do not necessarily lead to purposeful language teaching, particularly with a traditional instructional approach that isolates language skills without appropriate contextual clues in a classroom environment where the teacher is didactic expert and students complacently follow along. Traditional methods of teaching English often include translating structures from the target language to the mother tongue; although this method may seem antiquated, it is still commonly practiced. Indeed, those teachers who were taught b...

Analyzing the writing skill of English language learners emerges from understanding the accuracy,... more Analyzing the writing skill of English language learners emerges from understanding the accuracy, fluency, and complexity of texts and classifying written errors according to syntax, morphology, and lexicon. In this quantitative descriptive-analysis study, the participants included thirty one Spanish-speaking, Mexican English language learners who were enrolled in an English skills development course designed for B1-B2 English language learners. The participants had 50 minutes to write a narrative essay based on an image that served as context. Of the 31 texts, the findings show that 901 total errors were classified into three metalinguistic categories (i.e., syntax, morphology, and lexicon) and in terms of written development (i.e., accuracy, fluency, and complexity), suggesting that a holistic approach to instruction and assessment in the English language classroom can provide a clearer context when developing writing skills. Resumen La habilidad de escritura de aprendices del idioma inglés emerge de entender las dimensiones de precisión, fluidez y complejidad de textos, así como de la clasificación de errores escritos según la sintaxis, la morfología y el léxico. Treinta y un participantes mexicanos que estudian inglés en un curso de desarrollo de habilidades del idioma, el cual fue diseñado a un nivel B1-B2 de dominio, participaron en este estudio con el objetivo de clasificar sus errores de escritura. A los participantes se les mostró una imagen de dos personas abrazándose para que escribieran un ensayo narrativo en un tiempo de 50 minutos. Los resultados muestran que la dimensión de precisión puede ser expresada en tres categorías metalingüísticas: sintaxis, morfología, y léxico; considerando esto, las dimensiones de fluidez y complejidad también pueden ser medidas en el desarrollo de la habilidad de escritura. Las implicaciones de este estudio sugieren que un enfoque holístico puede proveer un contexto más claro al desarrollar la habilidad de escritura para las áreas de evaluación e instrucción del idioma inglés en el aula. "minimal terminable units" that would include "exactly one main clause plus whatever subordinate clauses are attached to that main clause" (p. 737). So, in addition to analyzing accuracy metalinguistically, accuracy can also be expressed as a ratio, representing one's development at a particular time or can show growth by comparing different accuracy ratios over time. Fluency & Grammatical Complexity This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attibution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

F. (2009). Aflatoxinas totales en raciones de bovinos y AFM1 en leche cruda obtenida en establos ... more F. (2009). Aflatoxinas totales en raciones de bovinos y AFM1 en leche cruda obtenida en establos del estado de Jalisco, México. Técnica Pecuaria de México, 47(2), 223-230. Recuperado de https://cienciaspecuarias.inifap.gob.

The purpose of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of the types of errors English langua... more The purpose of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of the types of errors English language learning writers make so that an analysis of such errors can later be matched to individual linguistic profiles. Only through this awareness can a discussion about differentiating assessment of the writing skill become fruitful. This study seeks to answer the following question: What are the salient syntactic, morphological, and lexical errors encountered by second-semester students of a bachelor's degree program in English language teaching in composition writing?

The purpose of this study is to verify the efficiency of VanPatten's (1996) Processing Instructio... more The purpose of this study is to verify the efficiency of VanPatten's (1996) Processing Instruction model in the teaching of English relative clauses in two different groups of participants: an intervention group and a traditional group. These two groups of students were enrolled in a BA in ELT. This study was conducted online due to the pandemic of Covid-19, where a pre-test and a post-test were administered to the intervention group, and only the post-test was administered to the traditional group. The statistical analysis shows a significant difference between the intervention group scores on the pre-test and post-test as well as a significant difference between the traditional group and intervention group. For the qualitative part of the study, the intervention group completed a feedback questionnaire, and the results show that most students consider that employing this model for language teaching is an effective approach in the teaching of relative clauses.

This study explored the relationship between implicit and explicit knowledge of 13 second languag... more This study explored the relationship between implicit and explicit knowledge of 13 second language (L2) English grammar points and the relationship of each type of knowledge with language learning aptitude and working memory capacity in 90 Mexican learners of L2 English at three different levels of proficiency (Level 5, Level 7, Level 9). An elicited imitation test and an oral narrative test were used to measure implicit knowledge, and a metalinguistic knowledge test was used to measure explicit knowledge. With respect to language learning aptitude and working memory, the former was operationalised by the LLAMA test, and the latter by the backward digit span test. With regard to the relationship between implicit and explicit knowledge, implicit knowledge correlated positively and weakly with explicit knowledge while an analysis by grammar point showed a non-significant negative correlation approaching significance between implicit and explicit scores. These results indicate that lea...