Fossilized mistakes in Spanish relative clauses learned by Chinese students

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ID21332990
AuthorsMaría Guijarro Sanz (0000-0003-2945-8106, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume60
Issue4
Pages1227-1251
Publication date2022-11-25
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0019-042X • E-ISSN: 1613-4141
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/iral-2021-0062
OpenAlexW4289668846
LanguageEN
References cited23

This article demonstrates how Cognitive Grammar and Construction Grammar can prevent Chinese students learning Spanish from fossilizing mistakes in restrictive relative clauses at the A2-B1 level of the European Framework of Reference for Languages. To address this issue, first, relative clauses in Spanish and Chinese were contrasted and, second, tailored solutions based on Cognitive Grammar were proposed. Among the cognitive based tailored solutions, certain geometry forms, colours and basic mathematics metaphors were compared with syntactic characteristics such as noun order, subordination hierarchy or resumption. To elucidate the impact of such teaching methods, an experiment with 74 Chinese students was performed. The results indicate that the efficacy of the proposed materials is statistically significant and as such, the Chinese students avoid fossilized mistakes while producing subject, object and locative relative clauses in Spanish

Chinese grammar · Cognition · Grammar · Hierarchy · Linguistics · Locative case · Noun · Object (grammar) · Relative clause · Subject (documents) · Subordination (linguistics) · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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