Intonation Focus in the Interlanguage of a Group of Spanish ...

The present paper is a report on intonation errors made by a group of Spanish learners of EFL in their last y ear of Secondary School (2 ° Bachillerato) .More specifically, we attempt to identify and classify the errors relating to the students' use of intonation to highlight information. With this aim in mind, we have used the tonetic approach to intonation analysis as the theoretical framework for the study. When comparing the students' performance with English native speakers', two types of errors emerge, interference and developmental.