RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Teaching English Word Order to ESL Spanish Students. A Functional Perspective A1 Alonso Belmonte, Isabel K1 Humanidades K1 Humanities K1 Filología hispánica K1 Spanish philology AB This paper's main goal is to approach the problem of teaching English word order to Spanish native speakers from a functional point of view. It is a well known belief that English is a fairl y rigid SVO word order language whereas Spanish is a more flexible tongue which orders claus e constituents pragmatically. As ESL teachers, we are all aware of the problems that thi s difference causes to the ESL Spanish leamer not only in early stages of leaming but beyond . In this study we will provide an account for the m ost common problems regarding word order found in a sample of ESL student compositions written by Spanish native speakers at th e University Autónoma of Madrid and later we will sugg est some didactic lines of action which could be useful to familiarize students with English word order and the pragmatic organizatio n of English sentences PB Universidad de Alcalá. Servicio de Publicaciones YR 2000 FD 2000 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/952 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/952 LA eng DS MINDS@UW RD 28-mar-2024