Diagnóstico de las dificultades en el uso de los conectores en una tarea escrita por parte de aprendices de inglés como lengua extranjeraEstrategias de corrección

  1. Jiménez Catalán, Rosa María 1
  2. Ojeda Alba, Julieta 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

Revista:
Didáctica. Lengua y literatura

ISSN: 1130-0531,  1988-2548

Año de publicación: 2014

Número: 26

Páginas: 197-216

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.5209/REV_DIDA.2014.V26.46839 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: Didáctica. Lengua y literatura

Resumen

Connectors are words that serve to join other words, phrases, and clauses together. They range from single words to combination of words, as well as adverbs serving conjunctive functions in the sentence. Connectors are very important for language teachers and learners, as they structure texts in discourse and, as a result, they have considerable influence on learners� success or failure in communication in a target language. However, they have been traditionally neglected in ELT coursebooks, particularly in beginners and intermediate levels; this may explain the many difficulties learners encounter when writing texts as reported in Granger & Tyson (1996), Abe (2001), Lee (2003), Fe (2006), Wei-Yun Chen (2006), Zhang (2007), Bikeliené (2008), Jalilifar (2008), Jiménez Catalán & Ojeda Alba (2010). The aims of this paper are twofold. Firstly, we identify patterns of connector misuse in a wide collection of examples drawn from a corpus of written essays by 228 Spanish learners of English in secondary education. Secondly, we propose strategies for remedial work for basic to intermediate levels. Our results show three types of problems with English connectors: total omission and scarcity of connectors, addition of unnecessary connectors, and wrong choice of connectors. On the basis of the difficulties diagnosed we include some guidelines for remedial work as well as examples of tasks that may help EFL learners develop explicit and implicit knowledge of the use of connectors in written texts.

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