Variation in the use of discursive markers in students' Writing: an applied study on Iraqi students of Spanish
Variación del uso de los marcadores discursivos en la redacción de los alumnos: estudio aplicado a los estudiantes iraquíes de español
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https://doi.org/10.36586/jcl.2.2023.0.48.0128Keywords:
Discourse markers, Problems and difficulties, Spanish as a foreign language, Texts, Linguistics.Abstract
This paper deals with the use of additive discursive markers by Arab students who learn Spanish as a foreign language through brief written compositions that they carry out within the framework of the subjects taught at the University of Baghdad. The objective is to know if these Arab students, who have a B1 level of Spanish, use these linguistic elements and the problems they may face to express the cohesion of the discourse. For this study, a learning corpus of more than 3,200 words of the texts written by the students has been compiled to carry out an analysis of their use. By studying the results, we want to shed light on whether or not students use discourse markers, and what difficulties can be found both in learning and in teaching.
ResumenEl presente trabajo aborda el uso de los marcadores discursivos aditivos de los estudiantes iraquíes que aprenden español como lengua extranjera, a través de breves composiciones escritas que realizan en el marco de las asignaturas impartidas en la Universidad de Bagdad. El objetivo es conocer si estos alumnos iraquíes, que cuentan con el nivel B1 de español, utilizan estos elementos lingüísticos y los problemas a los que se pueden afrontar para expresar la cohesión del discurso. Para este estudio se ha recopilado un corpus de aprendizaje más de 3.200 palabras de los textos realizados por los estudiantes para realizar un análisis de su uso. Al estudiar los resultados, queremos arrojar luz sobre si los alumnos utilizan o no marcadores discursivos, y qué dificultades se pueden encontrar tanto en el aprendizaje como en la docencia.
Received on 13/12/2022
Accepted on 20/3/2023
Published on 1/6/2023
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