El uso de los sujetos pronominales explícitos y nulos por los aprendices de ELE

Resumen

This paper aims to analyse the errors made by
Romanian students who learn Spanish as a
Foreign Language in using pronominal and null
subjects. Neither Romanian (students´ L1) nor
Spanish require pro subjects, but after investigating
the corpus (including opinion essays and
narratives), we have noticed that pronominal
subjects are misused. In our view, one possible
explanation of this syntactic error could be the
interference with other foreign languages that
students learn, which are pro-drop languages.
This type of error appears more often in the
first stage of interlingua and the more advanced
the student is, the less errors he makes. As the
syntactic competence is fundamental in the
acquisition process of the L2, it is very
important this phenomenon to be reckoned
both by students and by teachers.