To be or not to be...? Analysis of misuses with be in a learner corpus in an online environment

• Cristina Castillo Rodríguez ^[1] ; Sidoní López Pérez ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidad de Málaga

     Universidad de Málaga

     Málaga, España

     
  2. [2] Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

     Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

     Logroño, España

     
• Localización: Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna, ISSN 0212-4130, Nº 39, 2019, págs. 153-170
• Idioma: inglés
• Títulos paralelos:
  • ¿Ser o no ser...? Análisis de errores con to be en un corpus de estudiantes en un entorno online
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• Resumen
  • español

    Los corpus de estudiantes constituyen una fuente rica de datos reales producidos genuinamente por alumnos en una lengua dada. De hecho, los docentes de lenguas extranjeras (LE) o de segundas lenguas (L2) pueden disponer de una gran fuente de producciones, ya sean escritas u orales, para analizar ciertos patrones lingüísticos de los estudiantes. En este artículo, somos conscientes de esta situación y prestaremos atención a estructuras que se suelen utilizar de forma errónea: el uso, o ausencia, del verbo be en ciertas estructuras en combinación con born y agree. El corpus de estudiantes compilado para este estudio está formado por producciones escritas de estudiantes universitarios cuya lengua materna es española y que están matriculados en asignaturas no lingüísticas impartidas en inglés como medio de instrucción. Por tanto, algunos casos de traducción literal, muy cercana a los términos en cuestión en español, se describirán en este estudio

  • English

    Learner corpora provide teachers with a rich source of real learners’ productions in a given language. In fact, teachers from a foreign or second language (FL or L2) can have an immense source of contributions, either written or oral, for analyzing certain linguistic patterns in their students. In this paper, we are aware of this situation and will pay attention to some structures, commonly produced as a misuse: the use, or absence, of the verb to be in certain structures such as born and agree. The learner corpus compiled for this study is formed by written productions of higher-education students whose mother tongue is Spanish and that are enrolled in some non-linguistic subjects using English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI subjects). Therefore, some literal translation, very closed to the main term in Spanish, will be found and described in this study.

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