Análise de erros em textos escritos por aprendizes teutofônicos de português como segunda língua

Abstract

This research is part of the investigative line of Applied Linguistics (AL), more precisely, in the field of Error Analysis (EA) and aims at analyzing errors that native users of German (L1) make when learning Portuguese as a foreign language (PFL). To do this, we analyzed written texts produced by seven German speaking students of PFL at a language school in Maceió and identified the errors they have committed. There are several criteria to define linguistic error. Here it is understood as a deviation from the linguistic system and / or as a situational inadequacy in the FL (cf. Kleppin, 2007). This work is based on the theoretical and methodological foundations laid down by Corder (1981), Hufeisen & Neuner (2007), Kleppin (2007) and Figueiredo (2004). We sought to identify these errors, classify them, and determine their frequency and possible causes (interference from L1 or FL). The results that we obtained show that there are more spelling errors than morphosyntactic and lexicalsemantic ones. In the corpus we examined the misspellings were responsible for 60.90% of total errors, followed by 30.45% of morphosyntactic errors and 8.65% of the lexical-semantic errors. As for the interference of L1 and / or FL, we found that 14.42% of errors were influenced by L1 and 33.01% of errors were triggered by one or more LE (mainly Spanish). These results show that the learners in question used more frequently the structure of a Romance language that they had learned than their own native language (German).