Nerga García, Antía2020-11-242020-11-242018-11-05http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23764Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019The aim of this dissertation is to investigate how non-native speakers of English use the English passive construction. The objective is to compare EFL speakers of two completely different languages (Spanish and German) with the English native speakers. The first part will be devoted to exploring the basic uses of the passive and how is constructed. This part will be more theoretical and it will broadly describe the passive in the three languages mentioned above. Moreover, the topic will be extended by revising other studies on the use of the passive by EFL learners. The second part will be practical and corpus-based in order to analyse different data in the three groups of speakers. It will analyse similarities and differences among the three groups, focusing especially on quantitative comparisons between native and non-native speakers (i.e. focusing not only on questions of misuse, but also on overuse and underuse). These data will be used with the intention of answering the following questions: 1. Is the passive used by non-native speakers as frequently as it is by native ones? 2. If there any differences, does the learners’ L1 matter?engPasivaEFLInglés por xermanofalantesInglés por hispanofalantesMaterias::Investigación::57 Lingüística::5701 Lingüística aplicada::570111 Enseñanza de lenguasMaterias::Investigación::57 Lingüística::5705 Lingüística sincrónica::570513 Sintaxis, análisis sintácticoMaterias::Investigación::57 Lingüística::5701 Lingüística aplicada::570104 Lingüística informatizadabachelor thesisopen access