A study on the Spanish number agreement in first year university students

<p class="p1">This paper analyses the influence of some contextual variables in the establishment of the Spanish number agreement between subject and verb in written texts by first year students of Industrial Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina. In each case, t...

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Main Authors: María Cecilia Romero, Mariana Morón Usandivaras, Luciana Gabriela Andrín
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad de Buenos Aires 2018-10-01
Series:Signo y Seña
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Online Access:http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/sys/article/view/5262
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author María Cecilia Romero
Mariana Morón Usandivaras
Luciana Gabriela Andrín
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description <p class="p1">This paper analyses the influence of some contextual variables in the establishment of the Spanish number agreement between subject and verb in written texts by first year students of Industrial Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina. In each case, the writing strategies and the way the student used to build a certain designated instance (the subject) in his/her own discourse were reviewed. This study is based on the notion of number proposed by Langacker (1991, § 2), according to which the speaker always recognizes in a noun phrase, either singular or plural, a unit. We conducted a qualitative analysis on cases of syntactic discordance that involved not only morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects, but also pragmatic ones; given that from the Prototypical-Cognitive Approach (Lakoff 1987, Langacker, 2008) we consider grammar as a system of tendencies, which reflects the worldview of a society. By way of closure, we hold that it is necessary that who are dedicated to the field of education can understand the functioning of certain processing mechanisms of linguistic information that lead students to use grammatical forms considered not correct. The aforementioned will allow reflections between teachers and students in order to attain better results in their written productions.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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spelling doaj.art-e86c993a4c874227837f2e9c8b838faa2022-12-22T01:56:51ZspaUniversidad de Buenos AiresSigno y Seña2314-21892018-10-010331431564260A study on the Spanish number agreement in first year university studentsMaría Cecilia RomeroMariana Morón UsandivarasLuciana Gabriela Andrín<p class="p1">This paper analyses the influence of some contextual variables in the establishment of the Spanish number agreement between subject and verb in written texts by first year students of Industrial Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina. In each case, the writing strategies and the way the student used to build a certain designated instance (the subject) in his/her own discourse were reviewed. This study is based on the notion of number proposed by Langacker (1991, § 2), according to which the speaker always recognizes in a noun phrase, either singular or plural, a unit. We conducted a qualitative analysis on cases of syntactic discordance that involved not only morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects, but also pragmatic ones; given that from the Prototypical-Cognitive Approach (Lakoff 1987, Langacker, 2008) we consider grammar as a system of tendencies, which reflects the worldview of a society. By way of closure, we hold that it is necessary that who are dedicated to the field of education can understand the functioning of certain processing mechanisms of linguistic information that lead students to use grammatical forms considered not correct. The aforementioned will allow reflections between teachers and students in order to attain better results in their written productions.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/sys/article/view/5262concordancianúmeronominalestrategias de escrituragramática cognitiva
spellingShingle María Cecilia Romero
Mariana Morón Usandivaras
Luciana Gabriela Andrín
A study on the Spanish number agreement in first year university students
Signo y Seña
concordancia
número
nominal
estrategias de escritura
gramática cognitiva
title A study on the Spanish number agreement in first year university students
title_full A study on the Spanish number agreement in first year university students
title_fullStr A study on the Spanish number agreement in first year university students
title_full_unstemmed A study on the Spanish number agreement in first year university students
title_short A study on the Spanish number agreement in first year university students
title_sort study on the spanish number agreement in first year university students
topic concordancia
número
nominal
estrategias de escritura
gramática cognitiva
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