Interferencia lingüística en el aprendizaje simultáneo de varias lenguas extranjeras

Abstract

Foreign languages teachers at University de Caldas have observed that the students, who are learningmore than two foreign languages simultaneously, mix words and expressions of the different languages they are learning while using one of them. In these terms, this study analyzes the phenomenon as a linguistic interference, based on authentictexts written by 20 students who belong to the Modern Languages Program at the same University.

Keywords

• students
• linguistic interference
• foreign languages (L2
• L3
• L4)
• mother tongue (L1)
• simultaneity
• discourse action
• immediate constituent
• semical and lexemical units
• pragmatic analysis
• transference events.