El español ¿suena o sueña? Engarce interlingüístico y desviación léxico-gramatical en los hábitos expresivos de estudiantes hispanófonos rumanos (en contextos de inmigración)
Romanian as a Dead Ringer or “Dead Wringer” of Spanish? Language Convergence and Lexico-grammatical Dissimilarities in Linguistic Behaviour of Romanian Hispanophone Students (Migrants included)

Summary/Abstract: With both Spanish and Romanian descending from a common ancestor,Latin, similarities between the two Romance sisters are a self-evident fact. And indeed, the inherent musicality of Spanish, most appealing to the Romanian ear,acts as an added incentive to an ever larger number of students acquiring it as bilinguals (L2) or as an optional subject (L3) in schools and centres for foreign languages. On the other hand, certain facilitating circumstances make it possible for some children to be actually immersed from quite an early age in the langua cultural setting of the target language. A case in point provide families migrating to Spain or Latin America in search for better-paid jobs.Oddly enough, even if, admittedly, migration brings natives and foreigners closer together distance-wise, the remaining linguistic gaps to bridge are anything but few. Lending fresh support to this view is the paper at hand,which, while taking inspiration from one of the errors most frequently encountered in our teaching experience – i.e. mixing up sonar and soñar – , and amassing new evidence adduced by a national project research corpus, proposesto track down Spanish-Romanian interferences and zoom in on their structural functional idiosyncrasies as exhibited by oral narrating skills of Romanian students at home learning SFL, on the one hand, and, on the other, of the

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