%0 Journal Article 
%A Delgado Panal, Ana María
%T Problems, theory and practice of verb to be and its Spanish counterparts: Teaching Spanish ser/estar to English speakers through advertisements.
%D 2018
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/20786
%X Ser and Estar are two Spanish copulative verbs, very used in Cervantes’ language, and which indicate different actions, since while ser is mainly used to talk about identity, estar is used to talk about states. This seems to be easy, but things get a little more complicated when English students have to face the rest of uses of ser and estar, since they get mixed many often and students have not clear for what they use one verb or another, producing this way frustrations on pupils.
These problems, together with others, as it is the case of adjectives use with both verbs and with passive voice, will be studied in this work widely. Besides, we will comment on the main five methods and approaches we can find when teaching Spanish as a second language (L2), which will be helpful at the time of posing our original teaching proposal about adverts. This one will be useful to teach the uses of ser and estar appropriately and thus, to solve the possible doubts and make the class more fun and enjoyable.

%K ser
%K estar
%K Spanish L2
%K copulative verbs
%K English-speaking learners
%K verb To Be
%K English-Spanish structural differences
%K contrastive studies
%K español L2
%K verbos copulativos
%K enseñanza angloparlantes
%K verbo To Be
%K diferencias entre inglés y español
%K estudios contrastivos
%~ Universidad de Cádiz