Fonseca Mora, María CarmenCuenca Villarín, María Heliodora2017-06-012017-06-012000Fonseca 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 1576-50591576-50592253-8283 (electrónico)http://hdl.handle.net/10272/13778Studies about interaction between speakers with more linguistic and communicative competence and speakers who have not yet fully developed their abilities of expression describe a series of modifications in the higher level speaker’s speech in order to facilitate communication between them. We will go through the literature to detail the described modifications and establish a parallelism between L1 and L2 adult speech features when they act as linguistic models. We will demonstrate the existence of such adaptations in the speech of a random selection teachers who teach English to Spanish students at the beginning level and describe the students’ poor development of understanding and oral expression skills in the Spanish educational system.spaAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/journal articleopen access