Categorías narrativas y procedimientos referenciales aplicados a la didáctica de la temporalidad en ele

Abstract

In language teaching field, there is a focus on the formal linguistic system knowledge, generally disconnected to the discourse production, context where the language is actually codified. In this article, empirical discourse analysis of written narrative texts produced by Spanish foreign language students and native speakers of Spanish shows the relevance of taking the discourse as teaching unit. According to this frame, formal language resources are analyzed as a possible actualization of the language system in a given communicative situation.

The analysis particularly identifies the use of past tense verbal morphology to express narrative discourse temporality in specific narrative contexts. Referential procedures of the narrator, in order to produce the discourse, are also taking into accounts