La adquisición de las respuestas afirmativas en ele por parte de aprendices italianos

We will describe how native Italian speakers make use of operators of the affirmative response microsystem at three proficiency levels in L2 Spanish (beginner, intermediate, and advanced), given that the frequency, variety and functions exercised by these particles in this interlanguage have not yet been the object of much research. To this end, we work with one interlanguage corpus, E.L.E.I. Corpus, and two control corpora of native speakers of Castilian Spanish (PR.A.T.I.D. nelle lingue europee ) and of Italian (PR.A.T.I.D.), elicited using the same task-oriented technique as the E.L.E.I. corpus. The results obtained show that a certain degree of fossilization in the use and variety of these markers is developed, even in the most advanced levels of communicative competence. Besides, in the guided teaching analyzed the acquisition of the affirmative responses had not been presented explicitly. To promote a higher level of acquisition in the guided teaching we will defend the need of an explicit didactics of the procedural instructions of such particles. KEY WORDS: second language acquisition, discourse markers, affirmative responses, fossilization