Los Heterosemánticos en los libros didácticos de Español como Lengua extranjera

Abstract

The objective of this work is to deal with the topic of heterosemantics, exemplifying how this topic is approached in the language course books of the public universities of the State of Ceará and its importance regarding the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language for students. Brazilians. The data for this research was collected from the analysis of the three books from the "Vente" collection, from the Spanish publisher Edelsa, which are used in these language courses, offered to the general public. The analysis was based on the study of the proximity between these two languages, according to Alcaraz (2005), Almeida Filho (1995) and Revuz (1997), as well as studies on the topic of heterosemantics, according to Andrade Neta (1995) and Alves (2002). The study of heterosemantic words between Portuguese and Spanish is necessary, especially in the initial levels of learning, since some words are similar in some way in both languages, both in terms of writing and in terms of sound, which it can cause some confusion in the communicative process, since not all words have the same meaning in these two languages. In this sense, some activities of each book in the collection were analyzed, to show how this topic appears in each one and what possible confusion these words can cause to Brazilian students.