Analysis of the presence of locutions in a Colombian manual of Spanish as an additional language

Abstract

Phraseodidactics is an increasingly prolific area of linguistics applied to the teaching of additional languages. Many studies in Colombia have focused on this subject, with the exception of those on the Paisa variant. The present study analyzes the presence of locutions in the manual Maravillas del Español (v. 4). In general terms, this qualitative study found a considerable number of locutions in the manual (77), among which the most recurrent were verbals and adverbials; furthermore, it showed that these were mostly present at the moment of exposing the input and that there is little explicit and undeclared knowledge about the level of phraseological analysis. It is concluded that this is an important line of interest in the area of ELE2 and that it is necessary to define more concrete works to influence the publishing sector regarding phraseodidactics in Antioquia and Colombia.