THE AVAILABLE LEXICON OF MOROCCAN STUDENTS OF SPANISH (UNIVERSITY LEVEL): INCIDENCE OF THE “SEX GENDER” VARIABLE AND ITS CORRELATION WITH THE “ACADEMIC YEAR” Cover Image

EL LÉXICO DISPONIBLE EN ESTUDIANTES MARROQUÍES DE ELE (NIVEL UNIVERSITARIO): INCIDENCIA DE LA VARIABLE «SEXO» Y SU CORRELACIÓN CON EL «CURSO ACADÉMICO»
THE AVAILABLE LEXICON OF MOROCCAN STUDENTS OF SPANISH (UNIVERSITY LEVEL): INCIDENCE OF THE “SEX GENDER” VARIABLE AND ITS CORRELATION WITH THE “ACADEMIC YEAR”

Author(s): Mohamed Serfati
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Foreign languages learning, Lexis, Comparative Linguistics
Published by: Филолошки факултет, Универзитет у Београду
Keywords: lexical availability; Spanish as a foreign language; Moroccan students; lexical productivity; lexical competence

Summary/Abstract: The objective of this article is to study the impact of the variable “gender” in the available lexicon of 350 Moroccan students who learn Spanish as a foreign language at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of Agadir (Morocco) and who show a great interest in teaching / learning this language. After making a brief tour through the history of lexical availability, we come up with the analysis of the variable that concerns us in the whole of the sample to follow then with its correlation with the “academic course”. The quantitative analysis of the results obtained allows us to offer revealing data about the marked association between lexical availability and “gender”.

  • Issue Year: 2/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 153-180
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Spanish