Linguistic interference in the writing production of learners of English as Foreign Language
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linguistic interference, lexical-semantic level, corpus de appendices, second or foreign languageResumen
Introduction: Linguistic interference, also known as language transfer, occurs when learners of a second or foreign language (in this case, English) apply knowledge, rules, or structures from their native language-L1(in this case, Spanish) while using the target language (L2). This phenomenon can significantly influence writing production among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Objective: The aim of this piece of research is to develop an inventory of the most frequent linguistics errors made by Ecuadorian speakers during the process of learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Material and methods: This inventory has been carried out from the extraction of data from the COREAILE corpus, made up of the narrative production of students belonging to the Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros major (Pedagogy of National and Foreign Languages major) of the Universidad Técnica de Manabí (Ecuador). An inventory of linguistic errors has been established that will allow teachers of English as FL to better understand the interlanguage of their students and work on correcting the most frequent errors. Using the participants' narrations in English, formalized in a corpus as a data source, lexical-semantic interference was detected, establishing an error taxonomy. Three types of instruments were designed in order to obtain data from the written interlanguage of the participants: Comic strips, The story of my life and Past experience. The information which has gotten indicates that there is a large recurrence of interference errors in Ecuadorian English learners regarding the tendency to invent words due to the influence caused by their when writing a text in English. The results show that the most frequent errors are due to four main categories: false collocations, false cognates, invented words and literal translation. In conclusion, mistakes made by EFL learners are great indicators of the progress of students' language learning.
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