RT Journal Article T1 Adaptación del discurso del profesor de L2 a la competencia transicional del alumno de nivel elemental A1 Fonseca Mora, María Carmen A1 Cuenca Villarín, María Heliodora AB Studies about interaction between speakers with more linguistic andcommunicative competence and speakers who have not yet fully developedtheir abilities of expression describe a series of modifications in the higherlevel speaker’s speech in order to facilitate communication between them.We will go through the literature to detail the described modifications andestablish a parallelism between L1 and L2 adult speech features when theyact as linguistic models. We will demonstrate the existence of suchadaptations in the speech of a random selection teachers who teach Englishto Spanish students at the beginning level and describe the students’ poordevelopment of understanding and oral expression skills in the Spanisheducational system. PB Universidad de Sevilla SN 1576-5059 SN 2253-8283 (electrónico) YR 2000 FD 2000 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/13778 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/13778 LA spa NO Fonseca Mora, M.C., Cuenca Villarín, M.H.: "Adaptación del discurso del profesor de L2 a la competencia transicional del alumno de nivel elemental". Elia: Estudios de lingüística inglesa aplicada. Nº 1, págs. 69-80, (2000). ISSN 1576-5059 DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva RD 1 jun 2026