Sí, sí, estudio Lehramt, sí. El uso de marcadores de afirmación en el español de estudiantes germanohablantes

Abstract

This article deals with the use of affirmation markers in Spanish as a foreign language by university students whose native language is German. The presented results are part of a greater project on the acquisition of discourse markers in French and Spanish during their long-term stays abroad, based on empirical discourse data. Qualitative and quantitative analyses show several differences between the learners and Spanish native speakers: usage of sí as a discourse marker, affirmation with okay and affirmation with the interjection ah. Visible effects of having been abroad are the reduction of these deficits and an improvement through higher diversity of affirmation markers.