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Testing Bilingual Educational Methods: A Plea to End the Language-Mixing Taboo
(Language Learning, 2016)
Language mixing in a given class is often avoided in bilingual education because
of the generally held belief that one subject should be taught in only one language
and one person should stick to one language in order ...
How and When Does the Second Language Influence the Production of Native Speech Sounds: A Literature Review
(Language Learning, 2016)
In bilinguals and second language learners, the native (L1) and nonnative (L2) languages
coexist and interact. The L1 influences L2 production via forward transfer, as is seen
with foreign accents. However, language ...
Insights from bimodal bilingualism: Reply to commentaries
(Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2016)
The commentaries on our Keynote article “Psycholinguistic, cognitive, and neural implications of bimodal bilingualism” were enthusiastic about what can be learned by studying bilinguals who acquire two languages that are ...
Addressing students' difficulties with Faraday's law: A guided problem solving approach
(Amer Physical, 2014-06-30)
In traditional teaching, the fundamental concepts of electromagnetic induction are usually quickly analyzed, spending most of the time solving problems in a more or less rote manner. However, physics education research has ...
Language distance and non-native syntactic processing: Evidence from event-related potentials
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)
[EN] In this study, we explore native and non-native syntactic processing, paying special attention to the language distance factor.
To this end, we compared how native speakers of Basque and highly proficient non-native ...
Evaluation of a Programme for Computer-Assisted Learning
(Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 2011)
[En] This article lies within the framework of the implementation and use of ICT as a medium of learning in Primary Education. A learning programme was created, implemented and evaluated through using the computer known ...
Factors Facilitating Successful Educational Innovation with ICT in Schools
(Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 2012)
[EN]This paper proposes an approach to the concept of ICT-based innovation in schools, from the perspective of the factors that facilitate the innovative use of ICT. To this end, a scale has been developed and validated ...
Should EFL Teachers Present Vocabulary in Semantically Related Sets?
(2015-01)
[EN] Teaching vocabulary in semantically related sets is common practice among EFL teachers. The present study tests the effectiveness of this method by comparing it to the alternative technique: presenting vocabulary in ...
Emergent Bilingualism and Working Memory Development in School Aged Children
(Language Learning, 2016)
The present research explores working memory (WM) development in monolingual
as well as emergent bilingual children immersed in an L2 at school. Evidence from
recent years suggests that bilingualism may boost domain-general ...
Student Engagement in the School: Interpersonal and Inter-Center Differences
(Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 2012)
[EN[This research project aims to identify differences in students’ engagement in School life, in terms of both socio-personal characteristics (sex and educational stage) and type of school (state, private with
some state ...