%0 Journal Article %T Aproximaci¨®n pragmaling¨¹¨ªstica a tres hitos dif¨ªciles del sistema verbal en la ense£¿anza del espa£¿ol como lengua extranjera %A Toledo Vega %A Gloria %A Toledo Az¨®car %A Sonia %J N¨²cleo %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X in this article we present a revision of the role of the pragmatic constituent in teaching second languages. this revision is the starting point to set up a didactic proposal which aims at applying pragmalinguistic criteria when teaching three features with a high degree of markedness in spanish: ser and estar, the past of the indicative mode, and the modal discrimination between the subjunctive and the indicative. these features also present double selection and do not exhibit a clear relationship between meaning and form, which makes them difficult structures to acquire by non native speakers. %K pragmalinguistics %K marked %K double selection %K intention of the speaker %K communicative functions. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0798-97842011000100008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en