Ser and Estar are Piece of Cake: Teaching Grammar with Idiomatic Expressions
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| Formato: | artículo original |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2016 |
| Descripción: | This article describes a study on the teaching of idiomatic expressions, idioms, or figures of speech such as ser un cero a la izquierda in an intermediate-level Spanish foreign language class. Using as a point of departure the recommendations of various authors (Irujo, 1986b; Liontas, 2003; Tran, 2012) to incorporate idiomatic expressions into foreign language classes, this study investigates a pedagogic approach which until now has not received much attention: the use of idioms as a mnemonic resource in learning grammar. With this in mind, didactic materials were prepared following those used by Zyzik (2010) and Zyzik & Marqués-Pascual (in press) for the explicit teaching of the semantic distinction between ser and estar. Two pedagogic approaches were compared using these materials: one that presented the semantic distinction and was followed by input/output activities and the other via teaching idiomatic expressions. The results indicated that the instruction of idioms is not necessarily better than other teaching methods, but it certainly is a viable way to practice grammar while simultaneously exposing students to idiomatic language. |
| País: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institución: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/23752 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/23752 |
| Palabra clave: | expresiones idiomáticas modismos ser y estar acercamientos pedagógicos español como segunda lengua. idiomatic expressions idioms ser and estar pedagogic approaches Spanish as a second language |