Preposiciones espaciales del inglés como lengua extranjera: Un aspecto de interlengua

Abstract

The present research is an experimental study in the area of Applied Linguistics to foreign languages. This study is carried out with Chilean school students learning English as a foreign language in the classroom. A diagnosis of the student's linguistic competence with respect to prepositions of place is made. In order to do this; instruments ad hoc were made to elicit linguistic data. A quantitative analysis in terms of frequency is made; and a qualitative analysis was made applying error analysis techniques to the corpus.