Resumen de What will happen / might be happening with the simple and progressive future in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language?: A corpus-based proposal

María Moreno Jaén , Rosario Alonso Raya

• Although the use of data extracted from corpora for foreign language teaching has been widely endorsed in recent decades, in the case of the Spanish as a Foreign Language (SFL) classroom, and particularly regarding the treatment of grammar, this methodology is still relatively limited (Parodi & Burdiles, 2018). In this study, we present results obtained from the project XXXX, which demonstrate the potential of these tools for the analysis and pedagogical treatment of the interaction between tense and verbal aspect in Spanish. Specifically, this work addresses the findings from the exploration of oral and written corpus data hosted on the Sketch Engine platform, used for a contrastive analysis of the behaviour of the future tense in both its simple and progressive form. Based on Langacker’s (1991) dynamic epistemic cognitive model, as adapted by Castañeda (2023), we propose a reorientation of the treatment of the verbal system in the SFL classroom, one that cohesively integrates the progressive form when addressing contrasts in conceptualizations and practical applications.