Abstract

GALDAMES JIMENEZ, Ángela; GUERRERO GONZALEZ, Silvana  and  TOLEDO VEGA, Gloria. Lexical availability of foreign speakers students of Spanish as a second language in Santiago de Chile: preliminary study of sex differences. Káñina [online]. 2018, vol.42, n.2, pp.231-256. ISSN 2215-2636.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rk.v42i2.35197.

This investigation analyzes differences in sex, regarding to the written lexical availability in non-native speakers of Spanish as second language who are in an initial period of immersion in Santiago, Chile. This study is based on 34 written texts (17 of men and 17 of women), and identifies the common written available lexicon between both sexes to facilitates and guide the acquisition in SSL classes in every level. With this study, we attempt to prove two hypotheses: on one hand, that there are differences in the written available lexicon between men and women who study SSL, and on the other hand, that a common lexicon can be determined between sexes at the beginning of the immersion process in Santiago, Chile. The data analysis allows to conclude that while women show greater lexical availability, men register a minor one, and tend to repeat the available words they use. Likewise, we checked that is feasible to determine a common lexicon between both sexes.

Keywords : Sociolinguistics; lexical variation; lexical availablity; Spanish as second language.

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