This study explores the different uses of the word little, its equivalents in Spanish and its teaching to young Spanish learners. First, it aims at analyzing the lexico-grammatical behavior of little 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 little 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.

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大步向前：基于语料库的高频单词分析以及对西班牙年轻学习者的一些教学意义

这项研究探讨了“小”这个词的不同用法，它在西班牙语中的等效形式以及对西班牙年轻学习者的教学。首先，它的目的是分析儿童短篇小说集中小词的语法语法行为，发现该词的流行用法（可数名词之前）比其他领域和语域更常见。随后进行了对比研究，研究了英语-西班牙语平行语料库的翻译量。结果表明，小字构成了重要的等价物。最后，提出了一些教义上的启示，将基于语料库的发现应用于通过结合词汇教学法和基于故事的方法论的方法，向年轻的西班牙学习者教授英语。