Title in the original language
El uso de los tiempos del pasado en español como lengua extranjera: Una comparación de aprendientes escolares austriacos con políglotas románicos
Year
2018
An abstract in English
"The normative use of past tenses is supposed to be a big challenge for learners of Spanish. Although they might understand the grammatical chapter in theory, adequate past tense use in spontaneous oral production is not guaranteed. Morphological errors, overgeneralizations of tenses and interferences with other languages characterize the interlanguage of the learners. Based on two corpuses, we analyse how the past tense use differs between secondary school students from Austria and Romance polyglots. Qualitative and quantitative analyses show that polyglot speakers surpass the secondary school students in some areas such as the distinction of verbal aspect. However, the students tend less to use the perfecto compuesto in an inadequate way in narration."
Type
Peer-reviewed journal
Original language
Spanish
Full reference in original language
Eibensteiner, Lukas/Koch, Christian (2018): "El uso de los tiempos del pasado en español como lengua extranjera. Una comparación de aprendientes escolares austriacos con políglotas románicos". In: promptus 4, 21-42.