Teaching English Word Order to ESL Spanish Students. A Functional Perspective
This paper's main goal is to approach the problem of teaching English word order to Spanish native speakers from a functional point of view. It is a well known belief that English is a fairl y rigid SVO word order language whereas Spanish is a more flexible tongue which orders claus e constitue...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2000 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) |
| Repositorio: | e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/952 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10017/952 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Humanidades Humanities Filología hispánica Spanish philology |
| Sumario: | This paper's main goal is to approach the problem of teaching English word order to Spanish native speakers from a functional point of view. It is a well known belief that English is a fairl y rigid SVO word order language whereas Spanish is a more flexible tongue which orders claus e constituents pragmatically. As ESL teachers, we are all aware of the problems that thi s difference causes to the ESL Spanish leamer not only in early stages of leaming but beyond . In this study we will provide an account for the m ost common problems regarding word order found in a sample of ESL student compositions written by Spanish native speakers at th e University Autónoma of Madrid and later we will sugg est some didactic lines of action which could be useful to familiarize students with English word order and the pragmatic organizatio n of English sentences |
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