Estudio de transferencia de lenguaje a través de portafolios electrónicos orales en estudiantes de inglés como lengua extranjera

Abstract

Learning a foreign language requires acquiring a wide collection of linguistic components, which include but are not limited to vocabulary and grammar, as well as complex cultural and social dimensions, inherent to the native speakers of the language. Mastering the new language opens the doors to numerous opportunities to succeed in the world, but the path to become proficient in a second language is filled with all sorts of situations that could affect somehow the development of the process to become fluent. One of those situations is the transfer of language patterns from the native language (L1) to the target language (L2), which despite being a natural characteristic of the second language acquisition, causes difficulties in the communication when using the L2.In the recent years, language transfer has emerged as a very important area of study in second language acquisition. Therefore when we realized that the manifestation of language transfer in our English language students was highly strong, we decided to follow the interlanguage process, using oral electronic portfolios, as the tool to foster the use of the target language