Lexical availability of foreign speakers students of Spanish as a second language in Santiago de Chile: preliminary study of sex differences

 

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Autoren: Galdames Jiménez, Ángela, Guerrero González, Silvana, Toledo Vega, Gloria
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publikationsdatum:2018
Beschreibung:This investigation analyzes differences in sex, regarding to the written lexical availability in non-native speakers of Spanish as second language who are in an initial period of immersion in Santiago, Chile. This study is based on 34 written texts (17 of men and 17 of women), and identifies the common written available lexicon between both sexes to facilitates and guide the acquisition in SSL classes in every level. With this study, we attempt to prove two hypotheses: on one hand, that there are differences in the written available lexicon between men and women who study SSL, and on the other hand, that a common lexicon can be determined between sexes at the beginning of the immersion process in Santiago, Chile. The data analysis allows to conclude that while women show greater lexical availability, men register a minor one, and tend to repeat the available words they use. Likewise, we checked that is feasible to determine a common lexicon between both sexes.
Land:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Sprache:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/35197
Online Zugang:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/kanina/article/view/35197