Mejora de la competencia lingüística en lengua extranjera mediante la creación de un banco de recursos específicos para la Educación Primaria

La idea de la creación de un banco de recursos didácticos para mejorar la Competencia en Comunicación Lingüística (CCL) de una lengua extranjera en Educación Primaria, surge a raíz de observar la metodología utilizada para impartirla en colegios, tanto de España como de Francia, y observar una clara necesidad de cambio que precisan realizar los maestros de y en Lenguas Extranjeras con el fin de motivar al alumnado para alcanzar mejoras significativas en su aprendizaje. Para ello, ha sido necesaria una investigación en torno a las competencias clave y la competencia lingüística, y en torno a las metodologías y los recursos didácticos empleados en las aulas de Educación Primaria. Como respuesta a este proceso indagador, he observado una necesidad crucial en la creación o actualización de distintos recursos específicos didácticos, que sitúen al alumnado en el centro del proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje. Estos han de ser manipulativos –para conseguir una mayor implicación en su puesta en práctica–, motivacionales –para conseguir una buena acogida–, y eficaces –para cumplir con los objetivos didácticos y, en especial, para mejorar la Competencia Lingüística en la lengua francesa–. Confío en que el uso y la aplicación de este banco de recursos sea de provecho, y proporcione los beneficios esperados en los alumnos, incentivándoles al aprendizaje de otras lenguas y velando por una correcta adquisición de la CCL en las mismas.L'idée de créer une banque de ressources pédagogiques pour améliorer la Compétence Communicative Langagière (CCL) d'une langue étrangère dans l'enseignement primaire est née de l'observation de la méthodologie utilisée pour l'enseigner dans les écoles, tant en Espagne qu'en France, et de la constatation d’un besoin clair de changement que les enseignants de et en Langues Étrangères doivent réaliser afin de motiver leurs élèves à obtenir des améliorations significatives dans leur apprentissage. Pour ce faire, il était nécessaire de mener des recherches sur les compétences clés et la compétence linguistique, ainsi que sur les méthodologies et les ressources pédagogiques utilisées dans les classes de l’enseignement primaire. En réponse à ce processus de recherche, j’ai observé un besoin crucial de création ou de mise à jour de différentes ressources pédagogiques spécifiques, qui placent aux élèves au centre du processus d'enseignement-apprentissage. Celles-ci doivent être manipulables –pour obtenir une plus grande implication dans leur mise en oeuvre–, motivantes –pour obtenir un bon accueil–, et efficaces –pour atteindre les objectifs didactiques et, en particulier, améliorer la Compétence Linguistique en langue française–. Je suis persuadé que l’utilisation et l’application de cette banque de ressources seront bénéfiques et apporteront les avantages escomptés aux élèves, en les encourageant à apprendre d'autres langues et en assurant l'acquisition correcte du CCL dans ces langues.The idea of creating a bank of teaching resources to improve Language Competence (LCC) of a foreign language in Primary Education arose from observing the methodology used to teach it in schools, both in Spain and France, and observing a clear need for change those teachers of and in Foreign Languages need to make in order to motivate students to achieve significant improvements in their learning. To achieve this, it was necessary to carry out more research into key and linguistic competences, and into the methodologies and teaching resources used in Primary Education classrooms. In response to this research process, I have observed a crucial need for the creation or the update of different specific teaching resources, which place pupils at the centre of the teaching-learning process. These must be easily manipulated - to achieve greater involvement in their implementation -, motivational - to achieve a good reception -, and effective - to meet the didactic objectives and, in particular, to improve Linguistic Competence in the French language. I trust that the use and application of this resource bank will be of benefit, and will provide the expected benefits for students, encouraging them to learn other languages and ensuring the correct acquisition of LCC in these languages.Departamento de Didáctica de la Lengua y LiteraturaGrado en Educación Primari

Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search

Document recommendation systems for locating relevant literature have mostly relied on methods developed a decade ago. This is largely due to the lack of a large offline gold-standard benchmark of relevant documents that cover a variety of research fields such that newly developed literature search techniques can be compared, improved and translated into practice. To overcome this bottleneck, we have established the RElevant LIterature SearcH consortium consisting of more than 1500 scientists from 84 countries, who have collectively annotated the relevance of over 180 000 PubMed-listed articles with regard to their respective seed (input) article/s. The majority of annotations were contributed by highly experienced, original authors of the seed articles. The collected data cover 76% of all unique PubMed Medical Subject Headings descriptors. No systematic biases were observed across different experience levels, research fields or time spent on annotations. More importantly, annotations of the same document pairs contributed by different scientists were highly concordant. We further show that the three representative baseline methods used to generate recommended articles for evaluation (Okapi Best Matching 25, Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency and PubMed Related Articles) had similar overall performances. Additionally, we found that these methods each tend to produce distinct collections of recommended articles, suggesting that a hybrid method may be required to completely capture all relevant articles. The established database server located at https://relishdb.ict.griffith.edu.au is freely available for the downloading of annotation data and the blind testing of new methods. We expect that this benchmark will be useful for stimulating the development of new powerful techniques for title and title/abstract-based search engines for relevant articles in biomedical research.Peer reviewe