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- Title
Corpus of learners of Spanish as a foreign language; teaching of Spanish as a foreign language; discourse operator; pragmatic strategies and tactics.
- Authors
GARCÍA, PABLO ROBLES; SÁNCHEZ-GUTIÉRREZ, CLAUDIA
- Abstract
This study analyzes the treatment given to eight Spanish suffixes in nine elementary Spanish textbooks, and reveals an ineffective approach to derivational morphology produced by a lack of suffixation use. When suffixation is presented in the textbooks, it is mainly used to explain grammatical gender and not to promote the development of vocabulary learning strategies based on the identification of morphological patterns. This situation derives in a systematic confusion between suffixes and graphic endings, which prevents a thorough introduction of reliable rules about Spanish word formation. However, some suffixes like -mente, -ito and -ísimo, show a complete treatment, including explanations on their meanings as well as activities to exercise different types of morphological knowledge. These observations invite us to develop teaching materials that take advantage of the regularity and productivity of some paradigms.
- Publication
RaeL: Revista Electrónica de Lingüística Aplicada, 2016, Issue 15, p70
- ISSN
1885-9089
- Publication type
Article