Acquisition, language pedagogy and materials development in dialogue: a proposal for the teaching of Catalan from a plurilingual perspective

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https://doi.org/10.7203/realia.34.28692

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Catalan, language instruction, additional language, plurilingualism, multilingualism

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This paper presents a set of principles and practical proposals for teaching the negative system in Catalan as an additional language, designed to put emphasis on the active and meaningful promotion of plurilingual competence. It constitutes the final stage of a project in which a dialogue was established between research on the acquisition of Catalan as an additional language, language pedagogy and the creation of materials for language teaching to adult learners. The proposal is based on the results of two previous studies summarised here: an empirical analysis of the interpretation of the Catalan negative quantifiers cap ‘none’, res 'nothing', mai 'never' and ningú 'no one' in negative and non-negative contexts; and an analysis of how this linguistic aspect is introduced
in Catalan foreign language textbooks. Combining the results from both studies allowed us to better understand the processes of acquisition of the negative system in plurilingual speakers and a) design a teaching sequence and the syllabus for the teaching and learning of the negative System from A1 to C2 levels; b) determine the key principles to guide teaching; and c) create a set of activities based on a communicative language teaching approach. These activities take advantage of the learners' linguistic backgrounds, and incorporate input flooding, input enhancement and input processing strategies, as well as contextualised output production involving the structures and contexts studied in this research.

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Ares - Llop Naya, University of Cambridge

Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. Batista i Roca Fellow

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Llop Naya, A. .-., Paradís, A., Puig-Mayenco, E., & Vilagrasa Grandia, A. (2025). Acquisition, language pedagogy and materials development in dialogue: a proposal for the teaching of Catalan from a plurilingual perspective. Research in Education and Learning Innovation Archives, (34), 49–75. https://doi.org/10.7203/realia.34.28692
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