Native language interference in learning English as a foreign language: an analysis of written material produced by Spanish speaking students in senior high school classes.

Abstract:

The theme of the following investigation project is: “Native Language Interference in learning English as a foreign language: An Analysis of Written Material produced by Spanish speaking students in Senior High school classes”. This was mainly carried out in the city of Quito and its purpose is to detect whether or not there is interference of the Spanish native language when students write texts in English. I obtained seven tasks from twenty native Spanish students of sixth course to do this study. The tasks consisted of doing a composition, a free story tale, an essay, and a quiz. The research project was conducted in Cardinal Spellman Girls School, being the senior students, ranging from 16 to 17 year-old, the main target of it; in order to obtain a better view of the interference students have when they are writing in English. The following investigation project is made up of a descriptive research focused on a qualitative and a quantitative approach, and also a comparative analysis, which allowed me to get a better description and understanding of common grammatical and lexical errors made by Spanish speaking learners. Therefore I have developed the following proposal which consists of the creation of techniques to reduce interference by improving semantic and syntactic structures.

Año de publicación:

2013

Keywords:

• Ciencias de la educación - Inglés - Tesis
• Quito - Pichincha - Ecuador
• Linguistica constractiva
• Inglés-enseñanza
• Lengua española

Fuente:

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