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- Title
Connecting linguistic description and language teaching: native and learner use of existential there.
- Authors
Palacios-Martínez, Ignacio; Martínez-Insua, Ana
- Abstract
This article emerges from the need to connect linguistic theory and language teaching to find concrete solutions to problems Spanish students confront when learning English. This study looks at existential there constructions taken from the following native and non-native written English corpora: the International Corpus of Learner English and the Santiago University Learner of English Cor-pus for the non-native set, and the Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays, Biber et al. (1999) and a subcorpus of the BNC for the native English group. This contrastive study reveals important differences in the use of there constructions as regards their frequency, structural complexity, polarity and pragmatic value. Important implications for the presentation and the pedagogical treatment of the there constructions can be derived from the results.
- Subjects
SPAIN; LINGUISTICS; FOREIGN language education; ENGLISH language education; STUDENTS; SPANISH-speaking students; EXISTENTIAL constructions (Grammar); CONTRASTIVE linguistics; LANGUAGE &; education; EDUCATION research; CURRICULUM
- Publication
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2006, Vol 16, Issue 2, p213
- ISSN
0802-6106
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1473-4192.2006.00114.x