Grammatical collocations verb+preposition in Spanish as a foreign language: descriptive and linguistic error analysis of learners of levels A2 and B1

This article informs of the findings of a study of Spanish as a foreign language learners’ corpus of levels A2 and B1 whose focus examines errors in the use of grammatical collocations of the type verb+preposition (GramCol v+p). Its aim is to determine and compare their frequency in writing accordin...

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Autores: Oportus Torres, René, Ferreira Cabrera, Anita
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:México
Institución:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx:article/146
Acceso en línea:https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/146
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:grammatical collocations verb preposition
error analysis
interlanguage contrastive analysis
phraseological units of intermediate fixedness
colocaciones gramaticales verbo preposición
análisis de errores
análisis contrastivo de la interlengua
unidades fraseológicas de fijación intermedia
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Sumario:This article informs of the findings of a study of Spanish as a foreign language learners’ corpus of levels A2 and B1 whose focus examines errors in the use of grammatical collocations of the type verb+preposition (GramCol v+p). Its aim is to determine and compare their frequency in writing according to competence and under location, descriptive and syntactic-semantic criteria. This study conceptualizes GramCol from a phraseological perspective, and is based on the models of Error Analysis, and Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis. The results show that the most frequent errors: (1) affect the whole collocation, (2) are of the addition type, and (3) concentrate on those units whose collocates alternate with others expressing the same meaning, and on those whose collocate may appear implicit. Moreover, the data point out a similar frequency in the errors of levels A2 and B1 regarding the three analyzed criteria. The method and design of this study contribute to the research of intermediate fixedness phraseological units, specifically in respect to the nature of errors that affect ColGram v+p.