The acquisition of Spanish as S/FL as a subjectivazing process. A proposal from structural interactionism

Abstract

This article presents the first results of an exploratory-descriptive research, in which it is studied the acquisition of Spanish by five exchange students, from Brazil, Denmark, France and Belgium, in two courses of Spanish as a foreign language (SFL): in the Faculty of Humanities, UNNE, and in a private language institute, in Resistencia and Corrientes (Argentina), respectively. It is argued, according to the framework of structural interactionism (Lemos, 2000a, 2000b, 2002; Desinano, 2009, 2018), that the subject, like the child, undergoes a subjectivizing process in the foreign language, which consists of the capture of the subject by le langage, through the parole of the Other –teacher, classmates or other people–, considered as instantiations of la langue. In this subjectivazing process, the subject establishes relations with le langage that are considered structural positions that cannot be overcome, with a dominant pole. In the first position the dominant pole is the Other, fragments of the Other’s parole return in the student’s parole; in the second position, it is the langue, latent structures of Spanish emerge in the discourse; and in the third position, it is the subject, who becomes aware of his own parole, listens to it, corrects and reformulates it.