ANALYSIS OF VERB USAGE ERRORS IN RUSSIAN STUDENTS OF SPANISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: COMPARATIVE APPROACH OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND THE SPANISH LANGUAGE

This article analyzes grammatical competence errors related to the usage of the Spanish verb in native Russianspeaking students. The sample was obtained from the CEDEL2 public corpus and is composed of 57 texts written by adult students (ages between 17-40 years) with B1-B2 level of Spanish language. The purpose is to identify the most frequent errors committed by Russian speakers while learning Spanish as a foreign language. Besides, the other objective is to establish the origin of errors based on the student's native language. The article follows the methodology of computerized corpus studies of learners. The analysis of the corpus has revealed that the majority of errors related to the use of the verb are represented by the confusion of verb tenses, errors of verbal forms, verbal omission and the confusion of the verbs "ser " and "estar". The errors are caused by the interference of Russian as a native language.