CONTRASTIVE GRAMMAR IN LEARNING THE MOTHER TONGUE QUECHUA AND SECOND LANGUAGE SPANISH

Abstract

Peru is indisputably a multilingual country, with 48 languages spoken in different degrees of use and mastery. In Ayacucho, one of the departments of Peru, both Quechua and Spanish are spoken, resulting in a high degree of bilingualism in the population. The objective of this study was to analyze the strategy of Quechua-Spanish contrastive grammar at the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic levels in the population of Ayacucho. To achieve this, a qualitative approach was adopted, and interview and documentary review techniques were used. The results indicate that the contrastive grammar between Quechua and Spanish at the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic levels is highly effective for learning both the first and second languages.