My foreign body: exploring lived experiences of speaking a foreign language

The significance of the body in learning and speaking a foreign language is an under-researched topic in a field characterized by a strong focus on cognition and sociolinguistics. This paper is designed to contribute to a newly emerging line of inquiry addressing the move away from the pure linguistic approach towards a more humanistic perspective. Within this context, phenomenology has been considered both as a relevant and as an under-researched approach. This article contributes to the current research on foreign languages studies by expanding our understanding of what it means to speak a language as experienced in the body. El papel del cuerpo dentro del aprendizaje y la expresion de una lengua extranjera es un tema escasamente estudiado en este campo, caracterizado por el enfasis en lo cognitivo y la sociolinguistica. Por el contrario, este articulo se situa en la tendencia actual de distanciarse de la vision puramente linguistica del aprendizaje de lenguas y moverse en direccion hacia una perspectiva mas humanista. Dentro de este contexto la fenomenologia, puede considerarse altamente relevante y no suficientemente investigada. Este articulo contribuye al estudio de la corporeidad y las lenguas extranjeras.