Prótasis condicionales con infinitivos preposicionales. Su sistematización en el aula de ELSE

Abstract

In this presentation, we will focus on a grammatical theme that constitutes a vacant area, both in the training of ELSE teachers and in manuals aimed at alloglot students. In Spanish, prepositions such as: de, para, con and sin within infinitival clauses may constitute a protasis of (pro)conditional and (pro)concessive interpretation; likewise, de, para, con y sin also admit other interpretations (causal, final, modal, concessive). Therefore, it is essential to establish a set of strategies for the teaching-learning of this type of protasis at the intermediate and advanced ELSE levels (B1 + to C1 + of the CEFR). These pedagogical actions imply maintaining coherence and gradualness when teaching prepositions (a subject that is addressed from the Breakthrough level, A1 of the CEFR) and should make students aware of certain formal (suprasegmental and morphosyntactic) questions, from a perspective that considers the syntactic-semantic interface and its pragmatic-discursive projections. In this sense, we will analyse ELSE grammars and didactic materials produced in Argentina aimed at students of intermediate and advanced levels. Finally, we will propose a pedagogical systematization of these prepositional infinitives (graded for B1 + to C1 levels and framed within the so-called Task-based approach).