(Wray 2002, 2008; Hoey 2005). Si bien inicialmente estas investigaciones se aplicaron a corpus de lengua materna (Sinclair
1991; Granger y Meunier 2008), las implicancias para el aprendizaje de un idioma extranjero se han convertido en una problemática central en la lingüística aplicada (Ghadessy, Herny y Roseberry 2001; Meunier y Granger 2008; Corrigan, Moravcsik, Ouali y Wheatley 2009; Li and Schmitt 2010). Este cambio de perspectiva ha determinado nuevas líneas de estudio para la enseñanza de estas cadenas léxicas que llamaremos “secuencias formulaicas” (SF) siguiendo a Wray (2002), quien las define como “una secuencia, continua o discontinua, de palabras o de otros elementos, que es, o parece ser, prefabricada, es decir, almacenada y recuperada como una unidad de la memoria en el momento de uso, en lugar de estar sujeta a generación o análisis de la gramática del lenguaje" (p. 9). En nuestro estudio analizamos los ensayos académicos (111.000
palabras) escritos por 240 estudiantes hispanoparlantes avanzados de inglés en la Universidad de Comahue, con su consentimiento. Estudiamos aquellas SFs que introducen puntos de vista, describimos la frecuencia de uso de SFs como ‘from my/this point of view’ y ‘all things considered’ y establecemos patrones de uso canónicos y no canónicos en el corpus. A partir de los resultados, delineamos propuestas didácticas orientadas a la enseñanza de estas secuencias, esenciales para el tipo de texto estudiado (Jones y Haywood 2004). Considerando su comportamiento como unidades de significado y su composición heterogénea, así como la importancia que el manejo de las mismas implica para estudiantes avanzados de ILE, señalamos pautas metodológicas orientadas a equipar a los alumnos de herramientas léxicas para lograr mayor naturalidad en su discurso.]]> Zinkgräf, Magdalena]]> Rodeghiero, Andrea Carolina]]> Pérez, Julieta]]> enseñanza de idiomas]]> Introduction
Advanced learners of a foreign language are known to find a number of difficulties not only with respect to accuracy but also phraseologically. They seem to reach a plateau from which it is hard to spring to higher levels of proficiency, which Long (2003) refers to as “a general non-nativelike attainment”. Second language studies have proved there comes a point in foreign language learning when learners seem unable to overcome the obstacles their own performance errors pose to their linguistic development. Adult learners in particular claim they “know” that what they have written is a mistake but only once it has been pointed out by teachers in the feedback do they become aware of it. This phenomenon is not unfamiliar to students at Facultad de Lenguas. In order to address this problem and to help them develop self-reflection and autonomy, teachers of English IV during 2011 encouraged learners to use an Individual Mistake Frequency Log (IMFL hereafter) (Ferris, 2002:332), in which they were invited to record their mistakes, possible corrections and the reference book they might resort to so as to cope with these difficulties. Students were allowed to consult their IMFLs during in-class written assignments and exams. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of the IMFL on students‟ written work over time and thus ascertain the degree of grammar reflection learners engaged in, during the experience, as regards their performance in writing. To this effect, 105 written assignments by ten different students are analyzed to track the evolution of a number of specific mistakes, especially those that compromise written communication severely, namely, a) missing subjects, b) the absence of an obligatory determiner and c) incorrect verb patterns including passive participles and unaccussative structures. Likewise, we explore participants‟ answers to a written questionnaire on the use t hey made of the mistake logs and their role with respect to their learning process. In this paper we will present the analysis of the written assignments and the correlation between the mistakes present in these, those recorded individually in the IMFLs and learners‟ perceptions.]]> Introduction
Advanced learners of a foreign language are known to find a number of difficulties not only with respect to accuracy but also phraseologically. They seem to reach a plateau from which it is hard to spring to higher levels of proficiency, which Long (2003) refers to as “a general non-nativelike attainment”. Second language studies have proved there comes a point in foreign language learning when learners seem unable to overcome the obstacles their own performance errors pose to their linguistic development. Adult learners in particular claim they “know” that what they have written is a mistake but only once it has been pointed out by teachers in the feedback do they become aware of it. This phenomenon is not unfamiliar to students at Facultad de Lenguas. In order to address this problem and to help them develop self-reflection and autonomy, teachers of English IV during 2011 encouraged learners to use an Individual Mistake Frequency Log (IMFL hereafter) (Ferris, 2002:332), in which they were invited to record their mistakes, possible corrections and the reference book they might resort to so as to cope with these difficulties. Students were allowed to consult their IMFLs during in-class written assignments and exams. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of the IMFL on students‟ written work over time and thus ascertain the degree of grammar reflection learners engaged in, during the experience, as regards their performance in writing. To this effect, 105 written assignments by ten different students are analyzed to track the evolution of a number of specific mistakes, especially those that compromise written communication severely, namely, a) missing subjects, b) the absence of an obligatory determiner and c) incorrect verb patterns including passive participles and unaccussative structures. Likewise, we explore participants‟ answers to a written questionnaire on the use t hey made of the mistake logs and their role with respect to their learning process. In this paper we will present the analysis of the written assignments and the correlation between the mistakes present in these, those recorded individually in the IMFLs and learners‟ perceptions.

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