Varela Ortega, Soledad
Léxico, morfología y gramática en la enseñanza de español como lengua extranjera
VARELA ORTEGA, Soledad. “Léxico, morfología y gramática en la enseñanza de español como lengua extranjera”. ELUA. Estudios de Lingüística. N. 17 (2003). ISSN 0212-7636, pp. 571-588
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/6194
DOI: 10.14198/ELUA2003.17.32
ISSN: 0212-7636
Abstract: 
This article examines the role of lexical morphology in pedagogical grammars of Spanish as a way
to increase knowledge of vocabulary. We review the ways in which derivation and compounding are
introduced in Spanish textbooks and which present different types of teaching activities all of which
explicitly relate to word form and word meaning. We claim that word structure should play a more
important role in the acquisition of vocabulary. More specifically, we propose to connect the formal
genesis of a word to its external syntax. Following this approach, we outline some teaching activities
in which word formation is connected directly to the semantic and syntactic projection bf the complex
word. This is supported by current research in theoretical morphology and by recent work on the
acquisition of morphology in L1 and L2
Keywords:Morfología, Gramática escolar, Vocabulario, Enseñanza de la lengua, Lengua española, Lengua extranjera
Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Española, Lingüística General y Teoría de la Literatura
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