What Competencies and Capabilities Identify a Good Teacher? Design of an Instrument to Measure Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions

Teachers should not only be regarded as professionals with a large amount of knowledge that they must transmit but are also expected to fulfil other functions and possess other qualities to overcome the teaching challenge. This paper is aimed at designing and validating an instrument to identify preservice teachers’ perceptions about the competencies and capabilities […]

Language proficiency modulates L2 orthographic learning mechanism: Evidence from event-related brain potentials in overt naming

Abstract The present study investigates bilinguals’ capacity to rapidly establish memory traces for novel word forms in a second language (L2), as a function of L2 linguistic proficiency. A group of Chinese-English bilinguals with various English proficiency levels were presented with a reading-aloud task, consisting of 16 pseudowords and 16 English words repeatedly presented across […]

El Trabajo Fin de Grado: variables predictoras de la satisfacción y la nota en una muestra de alumnado de los Grados en Maestro en Educación Infantil y Primaria

Los resultados que obtiene el alumnado al realizar el Trabajo Fin de Grado (TFG) responden a una serie de factores, entre los que se encuentran algunos ligados a las características personales del individuo. El objetivo del presente estudio es analizar la influencia de varios de estos factores, tales como la autoeficacia, la motivación y el […]

Struggling with L2 alphabet: The role of proficiency in orthographic learning

The present study examined the process of L2 orthographic learning in bilinguals with distant L1–L2 orthographies. Chinese–English bilinguals with various English proficiency levels were trained with novel L2 words during a reading task. In contrast to higher proficient learners, those with lower L2 proficiency exhibited increased effects of length, frequency, and lexicality across exposures and […]