Abstract

Este trabajo analiza las razones por las cuales un grupo de estudiantes falla las preguntas especificas que evaluan su competencia pragmalinguistica en la prueba de dominio Oxford Online Placement Test (OOPT). El objetivo de este estudio es descubrir que tipo de deficiencias en la competencia linguistica de estos estudiantes pueden estar implicadas en la produccion de errores en estas preguntas, segun su propia percepcion y desde una perspectiva cognitiva y metalinguistica. Para ello, se diseno un cuestionario de valoracion restrospectivo que fue realizado por cuarenta y cuatro estudiantes de primer curso en la Facultat de Magisteri, Universitat de Valencia (Espana) que debian acreditar tener un nivel B1 de lengua inglesa al acabar el curso. Los resultados indicaron que el motivo de error mas frecuente en la parte de comprension pragmatica del OOPT era el desconocimiento de parte del vocabulario contenido en los dialogos que conformaban las preguntas correspondientes a esta parte de la prueba. This paper analyses the reasons why a group of students fails the specific items that assess the pragmalinguistic competence in English in the Oxford Online Placement Test (OOPT). The work at hand aims to find out what deficiencies in their linguistic competence are involved in their production of errors in these items. The research has been carried out according to the students own perception and from a cognitive and meta-linguistic perspective. For this purpose, a retrospective questionnaire was designed and administered to forty-four students, taking an English course at the Facultat de Magisteri, Universitat de Valencia (Spain). These students should certify a B1 level of English when finishing the course. The results showed that the most frequent source of errors in the pragmatic comprehension part of the OOPT was unawareness of some vocabulary contained in the dialogues corresponding to this part of the test.

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