Diagnosis of linguistic difficulties in written language production in Spanish of Moroccan resident in Spain inmigrants.

Abstract

This paper aims  to diagnose the main difficulties that Moroccan immigrants face when aspiring to obtain the LETRA Diploma in the Autonomous Community of Madrid. It does this by describing, classifying and analysing the errors made in the written exams required to obtain the aforementioned certificate. The collected data are classified according to Fernandez’ model (1997), with certain modifications imposed by the frequency and quality of certain errors. From them, this study attempts to describe the stage of their interlanguage by taking three language systems into consideration: that of the Mother Tongue (L1); that of the French Language (L2); and that of the Spanish Language (L3). In order to illustrate the criteria, opinions of other authors that have been considered appropriate have been provided, both to confirm the opinions expressed herein and to present opinions that have not been confirmed by the results obtained.