Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Lingüística, mención Lengua Inglesa / The main purpose of the present study is to account for the oral narratives of personal
experience in the interlanguage of Chilean Spanish speaking male and female learners of English. More specifically, the study intends to describe gender
differences and similarities in the use of structure elements, the use of extra thematic
details, and types of outcomes. The analyzed corpus consists of 30 narratives of personal experience in English. These narratives are made of 502 clauses, 289 of which were produced by male
learners, and 213 were produced by female learners. The eliciting technique was a structured interview, where the informants were asked to narrate about an experience
of fear of death, their happiest or saddest experience, and the most embarrassing
situation they had experienced. The results confirm the presence of gender differences in the interlanguage of the
Spanish speaking learners of English, which are consistent with the literature about gender differences in monolingual studies. Also, even though gendered patterns were detected, the results suggest that there is a need to account for the intragroup
differences, as indications of an important internal variation was also present.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UCHILE/oai:repositorio.uchile.cl:2250/112838 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Venegas Toro, Sabina |
| Contributors | Muñoz Acevedo, Daniel, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Escuela de Postgrado, Departamento de Lingüística |
| Publisher | Universidad de Chile |
| Source Sets | Universidad de Chile |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Tesis |
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