TY - JOUR AU - Labrador de la Cruz, Belén PY - 2019/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Making a little go a long way: A corpus-based analysis of a high-frequency word and some pedagogical implications for young Spanish learners JF - International Journal of English Studies JA - Int. j. Engl. stud. VL - 19 IS - 1 SE - DO - 10.6018/ijes.349311 UR - https://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/349311 SP - 1-20 AB - <p>This study explores the different uses of the word <em>little</em>, its equivalents in Spanish and its teaching to young Spanish learners. First, it aims at analyzing the lexico-grammatical behavior of <em>little </em>in a corpus of children’s short stories, where its prevailing use, preceding countable nouns, has been found to be much more frequent than in other domains and registers. A contrastive study follows, which examines how <em>little </em>has been translated in an English-Spanish parallel corpus; the results show that diminutives constitute an important equivalent. Finally, some didactic implications are proposed, with the application of corpus-based findings to the teaching of English to young Spanish learners from an approach that combines lexical syllabi and story-based methodologies.</p> ER -