Encuentros y desencuentros en torno al acento (ortográfico) en español y en portug

Abstract

This article intends to underline the importance of the knowledge of History of languagewhen grammatical items of a foreign language are taught. The perspective of the mother tongue caninfluence on the acquisition of the second language. Sometimes, the philological explanations of the rulesare a response of a common heritage, and sometimes there is a possible plagiarism. The orthographicalaccentuation has been chosen to illustrate this subject. This question seems trivial but it causes lots ofproblems between learners of Spanish and/or Portuguese language.