A Proposal for the Analysis of the Pronoun “en” to Improve its Acquisition by Spanish-speaking FFE Learners

Abstract

The acquisition of the pronoun en is a challenge for EFL learners at all levels of linguistic competence.  Although these difficulties are not exclusive to Spanish speakers, we will focus on explaining two of the most important difficulties in this area: the absence of translatological correspondence in Spanish and its syntactic heterogeneity and terminology. After a morphosyntactic analysis of the pronoun en and a bibliographical review of its acquisition, we describe two proposals aimed at optimising its acquisition in the Spanish-speaking environment: a syntactic and terminological simplification and an example of contextualisation of the pronoun en through literary extracts.