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Libro de Actas del Congreso Regional de la Cátedra ... - UNGS

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single working memory module might not always lead to Sweller’s (1999) extrinsic load,<br />

resulting in a less efficient learning. One rationale is that since vocabu<strong>la</strong>ry teaching in<br />

this experiment centered on introducing general vocabu<strong>la</strong>ry to the subjects, the visual<br />

memory was not overloa<strong>de</strong>d, as the exp<strong>la</strong>nations given on the vocabu<strong>la</strong>ry items were<br />

easy to process and hence might not have consumed the memory resources<br />

excessively. If this is the case, then it can be argued that the technicality of information<br />

might corre<strong>la</strong>te with the <strong>de</strong>gree to which it p<strong>la</strong>ces a high <strong>de</strong>mand on the memory<br />

modules. Further studies, however, are required to corroborate this view. Yet, another<br />

justification for such contradictory results might stem from the assumption that the<br />

format of instruction does not necessarily corre<strong>la</strong>te with cognitive overload irrespective<br />

of the technicality of information. In other words, whether or not the piece of information<br />

is technical, the way through which it is presented to learners may not serve as the<br />

causal variable in <strong>de</strong>termining how well it is processed within the modules. It might,<br />

then, be intriguing to replicate the current study where the focus of instruction would be<br />

teaching discipline-specific vocabu<strong>la</strong>ry (vocabu<strong>la</strong>ry in different disciplines, including<br />

medicine, physics, etc.) through visuals only and to explore whether the format of<br />

instruction would truly matter.<br />

El extracto anterior proviene <strong>de</strong> un párrafo completo <strong>de</strong> uno <strong>de</strong> los AI en inglés<br />

don<strong>de</strong> se pue<strong>de</strong> observar el alto número <strong>de</strong> auxiliares modales utilizados con el fin <strong>de</strong><br />

indicar o bien una falta <strong>de</strong> compromiso con el valor <strong>de</strong> verdad <strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong> proposición o un<br />

<strong>de</strong>seo <strong>de</strong> no expresar ese compromiso categóricamente (Hy<strong>la</strong>nd, 1998).<br />

Se pue<strong>de</strong> concluir que en los textos en inglés los autores prefieren mitigar sus<br />

aseveraciones mediante el uso <strong>de</strong> los auxiliares modales y no tanto mediante <strong>la</strong>s<br />

formas léxicas <strong>de</strong> modalidad epistémico-evi<strong>de</strong>ncial como los sustantivos, adjetivos o<br />

adverbios modales, ni tampoco mediante el empleo <strong>de</strong> verbos epistémicos <strong>de</strong> juicio o<br />

evi<strong>de</strong>nciales.<br />

AI en corpus en español: Verbos epistémicos<br />

El corpus en español marca otra ten<strong>de</strong>ncia distinta al corpus en inglés. Las<br />

expresiones más utilizadas por los productores textuales <strong>de</strong> los AI en español son los<br />

verbos epistémicos. La tab<strong>la</strong> 3 profundiza este hal<strong>la</strong>zgo.<br />

Inglés Español<br />

Verbos epistémicos <strong>de</strong> juicio 12 30<br />

Verbos epistémicos evi<strong>de</strong>nciales 14 42<br />

Tab<strong>la</strong> 3: Verbos epistémicos en <strong>de</strong>talle<br />

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