Students’ errors in L1 Spanish grammar from the perspective of formal linguistics
Ana Bravo | University of Murcia
This paper studies the role that knowledge about formal linguistics can play in teacher education. In order to do so, this contribution focuses on specific secondary students’ errors and misconceptions when confronted with L1 explicit grammar instruction. Errors are measured with respect to a formal theory of grammar. The rationale for developing this research is that certain aspects of formal theories, such as constituency, recursion, dependency and compositionality function not only are the building blocks of the utterances, but are also needed for speech processing. If this is the case, acquiring them correctly might be helpful for enhancing literacy, since the very same notions are at the core of both the construction and the understanding of any text. As a second issue, the present paper addresses the question of how the absence of such knowledge models the perspective from which students’ errors are evaluated by the teachers. Errors are described following the theories for analyzing errors in mathematics. A side effect of this approach is that the parallelism between errors made in learning mathematics and in learning the grammatical concepts just mentioned allows broadening the perspective from which the latter is approached.
Keywords: formal grammar, L1 grammar, school grammar, errors, functional grammar, literacy, mathematics, communicative approaches, Spanish, linearity
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Formal vs. function-oriented L1 grammars
- 3.Theoretical framework. Students’ errors in mathematics
- 4.Students’ errors and misconceptions in L1 grammar
- 4.1Methodology
- 4.2Results
- 4.3Discussion
- A. Language is linear
- B. Language is identified with the object it refers to
- 4.4Further implications
- 5.Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
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Published online: 25 May 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/pl.21004.bra
https://doi.org/10.1075/pl.21004.bra
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