The vocabulary of food in EFL learners� compositions

• Julieta Ojeda Alba ^[1] ; Rosa María Jiménez Catalán ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de La Rioja

     Universidad de La Rioja

     Logroño, España

     
• Localización: Cauce: Revista Internacional de Filología, Comunicación y sus Didácticas, ISSN-e 2603-8560, ISSN 0212-0410, Nº 32-33, 2009-2010, págs. 307-320
• Idioma: español
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  • español

    Vocabulary plays an essential role in successful foreign language learning as shown in a great number of vocabulary studies. Likewise, the importance of food in the shaping of culture and language has been acknowledged in sociolinguistics. In this paper we look at the vocabulary implemented by EFL learners in a writing task. Our results show the recurrent, though unprompted, presence of food-related vocabulary. Participants have produced vocabulary pertaining to a number of different lexical fields, yet from no other topic has been elicited a greater variety of types than from that related to food. A comparison of the figures by gender suggests that females use more terms related to food than their male counterparts. A qualitative analysis of lexical units reveals that food vocabulary is becoming increasingly more �foreign� in EFL learners

  • English

    El vocabulario es esencial en el éxito del aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera como demuestran un gran número de estudios. Asimismo, en sociolingüística se ha reconocido la importancia de la comida en la cultura y la lengua. En este artículo analizamos el vocabulario de aprendices de inglés como lengua extranjera en una tarea escrita. Nuestros resultados demuestran la presencia recurrente de vocabulario relacionado con la comida. Los estudiantes producen vocabulario perteneciente a diferentes campos léxicos; sin embargo, el campo relacionado con la comida es el que aglutina una mayor variedad de tipos, y son las alumnas quienes producen un mayor número de términos. El análisis cualitativo de los datos revela la «extranjerización» del vocabulario de los aprendices de inglés como lengua extranjera

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