Expressing physical and emotional state changes through the verb get and its translations in bilingual writing, English-Spanish, in high school

摘要

This articlecharacterizes high school students' performance, in the mediatheque oflanguages, in English-Spanish bilingualwritingof short narratives texts with the verb get and its translation to express health and emotions state changes. Thesemeanings involve multifunctional and polisemic criteria in the lexical andsemantic selections in both languages and morphology with prefixes andcircunfixes in Spanish. Methodology contemplates a teaching activity related tostate change meaning, a partially guided exercise to promote bilingual narrativewriting, feedback and revision to write an improved version. With the approachof functional characterization of verbal resources, the research includesanalysis categories focused in intentionality and self-translation practices.The results show students' attempts to express the semantic trait of thebeginning or transition of the state change through verbal phrases with theverb get and its translation intoSpanish, as well as difficulties in both languages. The article providesconceptual and methodological criteria for the study of verbal expressions andtheir semantic features in bilingual writing.