Errors in expressing the past in advanced EFL learners with Spanish as L1

• Thesis title in Czech: Chyby při vyjadřování minulosti u pokročilých španělských mluvčích AJ
• Thesis title in English: Errors in expressing the past in advanced EFL learners with Spanish as L1
• Key words: mluvený jazyk|žákovský jazyk|mezijazyk|žákovské korpusy|chybová analýza|značkování chyb
• English key words: spoken language|learner language|interlanguage|learner corpora|error analysis|error tagging
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2016/2017
• Thesis type: Bachelor's thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology (21-UAJD)
• Supervisor: PhDr. Tomáš Gráf, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept.
• Date of registration: 10.10.2016
• Date of assignment: 10.10.2016
• Administrator's approval: not processed yet
• Confirmed by Study dept. on: 12.10.2016
• Date and time of defence: 30.01.2018 00:00
• Date of electronic submission: 13.12.2017
• Date of proceeded defence: 30.01.2018
• Submitted/finalized: committed by student and finalized
• Opponents: Mgr. Jiřina Popelíková

Guidelines

The aim of the bachelor thesis is to carry out a contrastive interlanguage analysis of advanced learner English of speakers with L1 Spanish, and more specifically errors these learners commit when referring to the past. The theoretical part will provide a brief description of the linguistic means which English employs to refer to the past. The data for the practical part will be drawn from a selection of 25–30 speakers from the Spanish subcorpus of LINDSEI. The errors will be tagged, analysed and the result compared to similar studies of Czech advanced learners of English.

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