La adquisición del aspectoconsideraciones didácticas para el aula de ELE

Resumen

Recent studies on the acquisition of Spanish verbal morphology have shown that both the Aktionsart or lexical aspect and the predicational aspect influence the selection of the imperfecto/indefinido verbal morphology by Spanish learners (Andersen, 1986; Ayoun y Salaberry, 2005; Díaz, 2006; González, 2005; Güell, 2008; Salaberry y Shirai, 2002, among others). The aim of this paper is to review the theory of aspect bearing in mind that there are different kinds of aspect: lexical aspect, grammatical aspect and predicational aspect. First, we will focus on the results obtained in the different experiments whose hypothesis was to show that the lexical aspect influences the selection of the verbal morphology, i.e. the aspect hypothesis. Second, and in addition to the experiments that propose the primacy of the lexical aspect, we will also see the results of the experiments that propose the relevance of the predicational aspect and the contextual aspect in the acquisition of the verbal morphology. Finally, we will discuss some didactic considerations in relation to the acquisition of aspect.