Incidence of the mother tongue and extralinguistic factors in the development of sociolinguistic competence in Spanish in multilingual speakers

Abstract

The present work seeks to respond to phenomena concerning the learning of a foreign language, taking into account linguistic factors, such as the influence of the mother tongue. Likewise, emotional factors were considered, referring to the attitude and motivation towards the new language, and the sociocultural aspects of the environment in which the learner operates. To achieve the established objectives, a case study was carried out on a multilingual Belgian speaker (French and Dutch as mother tongues and mastery of Italian and English) who was in an immersion situation to learn the Spanish language. The results obtained were contrasted with information compiled from bibliographic sources.