FOREIGN STUDENTS AND THEIR LEARNING SPANISH PROCESS: FIRST HINT OF TRANSLANGUAGING

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 interviews were conducted from the sample of participants and artifacts were used by the students in their learning process of the Spanish lessons. Data were analyzed inductively by certain categories of analysis from the concepts, issues and relationships, in order to give optimal answer to research questions. Concluding that translanguaging is a phenomenon that greatly influences the development of the foreign language.