Teaching English prepositions to Spanish speakers: Some aspects to bear in mind

This paper focuses on English preposilions, whose importance is due, among other reasons, to their high frequency of occurrence. Teaching them to Spanish speakers proves to be a hard task which involves dealing with two different disciplines: (Applied) Linguistics and ELT. Firstly, attention will be...

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Author: Casas Pedrosa, Antonio Vicente
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Publication Date:2005
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Jaén
Repository:RUJA. Repositorio Institucional de la Producción Científica de la Universidad de Jaén
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Keyword:English prepositions
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title Teaching English prepositions to Spanish speakers: Some aspects to bear in mind
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Casas Pedrosa, Antonio Vicente
English prepositions
TEFL
Spanish speakers
teaching
learning
8
title_short Teaching English prepositions to Spanish speakers: Some aspects to bear in mind
title_full Teaching English prepositions to Spanish speakers: Some aspects to bear in mind
title_fullStr Teaching English prepositions to Spanish speakers: Some aspects to bear in mind
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TEFL
Spanish speakers
teaching
learning
8
topic English prepositions
TEFL
Spanish speakers
teaching
learning
8
description This paper focuses on English preposilions, whose importance is due, among other reasons, to their high frequency of occurrence. Teaching them to Spanish speakers proves to be a hard task which involves dealing with two different disciplines: (Applied) Linguistics and ELT. Firstly, attention will be paid to their morphological, syntactic, and semantic complexity and fuzziness. Secondly, as for ELT, some books concemed with this topic have been published. Moreover, there are projects, such as PrepNet (http://www.iritfrlrecherches/lLPLlprepnet.html), which are aimed al describing the syntax and the semantics of prepositions within a multilingual perspective. From our own teaching experience, we can conclude that this issue is relevant enough so as to make us investigate the problems Spanish speakers face when leaming English prepositions.
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