Interlanguage analysis of discourse markers used by english‑speaking learners of Spanish as a foreign language

• Autor(a) principal: Toledo Vega, Gloria
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Quilodrán Peredo, Francisco, Pizarro Velásquez, Edson
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/rual.v0i11.35800

This article shows an interlanguage contrastive study that compares the use of cohesion resources between English speakers learning Spanish as a Foreign Language (SFL) at different proficiency levels, and a control group of Spanish speakers, extracted from the corpus in Spanish CEDEL2 (Lozano, 2009). The analysis focused on two macro‑functions: to expose and to argue.|It was carried out in English as mother tongue, SFL, and Spanish as mother tongue, to compare the productions between them. For each language group and proficiency level, the count of connectors was framed by a template carried out by Mizón and Oyanedel (1999). The frequency of use and the percentage relationship between words per language group and connectors used were calculated. This allowed us to observe that in both mother tongues the use of discursive markers is lower than in SFL and that the performance in the native languages shows a preference for other resources for the control of textualization: pronominal and verbal ellipses, lexical substitutions, anaphoric co‑reference or a good control of the punctuation, among other resources that we observed.