LOS ESTUDIANTES EXTRANJEROS Y SU PROCESO DE APRENDIZAJE DEL ESPAÑOL EN COLOMBIA: PRIMEROS INDICIOS DEL TRANSLANGUAJEO

ABSTRACT This article is about the study of translanguaging in the sociolinguistic performance in a group of 22 foreign students who acquire Spanish as a foreign language in a Colombian University. This article explains translanguaging as a strategic resource that refers to the combination of changes so happens, from the translation, changing code-switching and language-switching, for that reason it is defined in the process of learning a language other than the mother tongue, in this case Spanish. Data were collected through direct observation recorded in a field journal. Semi-structured inte...