The Use of Grammatical Possession in Spanish (L2) by Turkish Students (L1) –An Empirical Study

Year 2016, , 31 - 44, 01.06.2016

Julia Martínez González Ceren Karaca

https://doi.org/10.1501/Dilder_0000000232

Abstract

The Use of Grammatical Possession in Spanish (L2) by Turkish Students (L1) –An Empirical StudyThis empirical study explores the acquisition of the three main structures to express the grammatical possession in Spanish— the verb tener, the possessive adjectives and the prepositional syntagma with the structure “article + possessum + de + owner”— in a group of students whose L1 is the Turkish language. Our objective is to understand the reasons and the hypothesis that brought each of the students to make the final decisions, sometimes correctly and sometimes incorrectly, at the time of expressing the grammatical possession in Spanish. In order to do this, we have focused on the errors made by the students when using these structures with the aim of evaluating the level of acquisition of the structures, identifying which structures create more problems at the time of production and explaining the reasons why these errors are made

Keywords

İyelik, İspanyolca - Türkçe, İyelik Sıfatları, İlgeç Dizimi, Dillerarası Yapılan Hatalar

İspanyolcada iyelik yapılarının anadili Türkçe olan öğrenciler (D2E) tarafından kullanımı -bir alan çalışması-

Abstract

Bu alan çalışması, anadili Türkçe olan İspanyolca öğrencilerinin İspanyolcada iyelikleri ifade etmek için kullanılan üç ana yapı olan “tener” eylemini, iyelik sıfatlarını ve “tanımlık+ sahip olunan şey + de+sahip olan kişi” yapısından oluşan ilgeç diziminin edinimini incelemektedir. Öğrencilerin her birinin iyelik yapılarını ifade etme aşamasında kimi zaman doğru kimi zaman yanlış karar vermelerindeki neden ve varsayımların anlaşılması hedeflenmektedir. Bu amaçla bu yapıların edinim düzeyini değerlendirmek, kullanım sırasında hangi yapıların daha fazla sorun yarattığını belirlemek ve hataların nedenlerini açıklamak amacıyla bu yapıları kullanırken öğrencilerin yaptıkları hatalara odaklanılmıştır

Keywords

Spanish-Turkish, Possessive Adjectives, Prepositional Syntagma, Interlanguage ErrorS

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