THE PRESENCE OF PORTUGUESE IN THE WRITTEN PRODUCTION OF THE ENGLISH LEARNER: A STUDY ON WORD USAGE / A PRESENÇA DO PORTUGUÊS NA ESCRITA DO APRENDIZ DE INGLÊS: UM ESTUDO SOBRE O EMPREGO LEXICAL

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

This study aims at the written production of students of English as a foreign language in Brazil. Compositions of intermediate and advanced students are analyzed with a special focus on constructions whose inadequacies may be specifically associated to vocabulary usage. The general goal of the research is to investigate the interference of Portuguese in the acquisition of English as a foreign language, with a special emphasis on lexical usage in the written modality. Its specific objective is to test the hypothesis that the non isomorphic character of sense relations between different languages − in the case of this study, Portuguese and English − is related to the incidence of lexical problems encountered in compositions of students of English as a foreign language. The results of the analysis, which was mainly grounded on the propositions of Cruse (1986), Lyons (1990) and Saeed (2003), contribute to confirm this hypothesis, demonstrating that the lexical problems being scrutinized can be associated with mother tongue interference, and, more specifically, with the discrepancies in the sense relations between Portuguese and English.

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word usage portugues ensino de ingles mother tongue interference portuguese emprego lexical efl teaching sense relations relacoes de sentido interferencia de lingua materna

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