Ensino-aprendizagem de léxico em espanhol como língua estrangeira (E/LE) por meio de corpora (as palavras polissêmicas nos livros didáticos)

• Autor(a) principal: Alonso, Maria Cibele Gonzalez Pellizzari
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13636
• topic: Ensino-aprendizagem de E/LE; Palavras polissêmicas; Corpora; Teaching and Learning E / LE; Polysemous words; Corpora; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA::LINGUISTICA APLICADA

The lexicon is one of the aspects that students of a foreign language have most difficult with. Despite the fact that one can make phonetic, grammatical, pragmatic mistakes and still be understood, communication may be compromised by the misuses of vocabulary. Thus, we observe that the lexicon cannot be neglected in the process of teaching and learning because students often present, even at an advanced level, poor range and appropriacy of lexicon, which impairs their proper use of the language. Therefore, the target of this research is the study of the process of teaching and learning the lexicon, more specifically, the polysemous words that are present in the textbooks of Spanish as a Foreign Language (E / LE), because we believe that knowing the several meanings of such words helps students extend their range and appropriacy of lexicon. Consequently, this research found theoretical support in Corpus Linguistics, specifically in the area of corpus-based research which is concerned with the process of teaching and learning foreign languages (Sánchez, 1995; SINCLAIR, 1991, Halliday 2002 BERBER SARDINHA, 2004). The proposed questions were: 1. Are the meanings of polysemous words which are present in textbooks the most frequent ones on a daily basis? 2. What is the importance of the textbook in the process of teaching and learning the lexicon? 3. Do students use resources other than the textbook in order to extend their range of vocabulary (in this particular case, the different meanings of polysemous words)? 4. Do the activities developed with concordance lines contribute to the learning of new meanings of polysemous words? The corpora used in the research were: 1) a corpus of texts elaborated from four textbooks E / LE, 2) two corpora with essays written by twelve students (informants), developed at different moments, and 3) a corpus of reference, CREA ( Reference Corpus del Español Actual), the Royal Spanish Academy. In response to the research questions, the results indicated that students may use different resources to acquire and extend their lexicon, but the textbook is the main one. Nevertheless, it was observed in this study that the lexicon presented in textbooks does not necessarily involve the actual colloquial language used on a daily basis. Hence, the authors of the textbooks need to devote more attention to the lexicon they will present in their materials. Moreover, teachers can collaborate in this task by supplementing the book with activities. For this, we suggest the use of activities designed with lines of agreement, contributing effectively to the acquisition of the lexicon. All in all, these findings bring a contribution to the field of teaching-learning E / LE through corpora, helping to fill the gap in the work specifically with the teaching of polysemous words in Spanish as a foreign language. There were no studies in this field up to this moment and therefore, the aim of this research is to make a unique contribution