The Dustman: a longitudinal case study on non-acquisition of conflated manner of motion in advanced learners of English

Consuelo Pérez Benítez

doi:10.58859/rael.v23i1.512

Autores/as

Consuelo Pérez Benítez Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58859/rael.v23i1.512

Palabras clave:

lenguas de marco verbal/satelital, fusión de eventos, no adquisición de patrones de lexicalización, restricción del cruce de límites, enseñanza explícita, ASL

Resumen

Este estudio sigue el desarrollo de siete estudiantes de inglés como segunda lengua durante 17 años y analiza si se pueden adquirir patrones de lexicalización específicos a la L2 si estos no se enseñan específicamente. Concretamente se centra en el componente semántico de camino (path) tal como lo explican Talmy (2000) y Slobin (1987, 2004, 2017). Arguyo que los estudiantes de inglés avanzado que se han beneficiado de una adquisición tanto instruida como natural de la L2 no son en general conscientes de que la segunda lengua conceptualiza el movimiento de una manera distinta y, por tanto, transfieren patrones léxicos de su lengua a la L2. Creo que enseñar dichas diferencias puede llevar a un mayor progreso en estudiantes muy avanzados.

Biografía del autor/a

Consuelo Pérez Benítez, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

From NYC, Consuelo (Cono) Pérez is an associate professor at UNED-Spain. A graduate from Complutense-Madrid and DEA holder from UNED, her career focuses on instructing ESL and writing/translating. Publications include El Islam (1995) for CUP and “Antonio Buero Vallejo: De la humanidad se puede pensar todo incluso lo peor,” and “José Sacristán: Las Puertas Abiertas de América Latina,” for Chasqui (Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación).

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