CLIL at the linguistic interfaces

  1. María Juncal Gutiérrez Mangado 1
  2. María Martínez Adrián 1
  1. 1 Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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    Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

    Lejona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/000xsnr85

Revista:
Journal of immersion and content-based language education

ISSN: 2212-8433

Año de publicación: 2018

Volumen: 6

Número: 1

Páginas: 85-112

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1075/JICB.17002.GUT DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: Journal of immersion and content-based language education

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Resumen

This study explores the effect of CLIL on the acquisition of nominal morphology (syntax-morphology interface) and article use (syntax-semantics-discourse-interface), linguistic areas that have been scarcely investigated in CLIL settings. Here we compare article omission and overuse errors in an oral production task performed by L1 Basque-Spanish learners of L3 English in two CLIL and non-CLIL groups matching in age at testing time and amount of exposure. Results indicate that as regards nominal morphology, CLIL and non-CLIL learners are equal in terms of the omission of the definite and the indefinite article, but CLIL learners learn to solve article overuse more quickly than non-CLIL learners. Taking together these results and the findings from our previous study ( Martínez-Adrián & Gutiérrez-Mangado, 2015a ), which revealed the non-existence of CLIL benefits with respect to the acquisition of verbal morphology, we conclude that while the syntax-morphology interface seems to be unaffected by CLIL, CLIL can aid in the acquisition of features from the syntax-semantics-discourse interface.