Sumario: | The process of learning English as a foreign language is a complex educational system in which all individuals involved have to perform actions to make it successful. Teachers are a great part of this process, their job in the classroom is very important to provide guidance, but students on their part must be active learners; they have to take responsibility for their own learning because they are the main character of this process. This study was carried out in order to find out the incidence of Spanish as native language in the process of learning English as a foreign language, inside the classroom. On the one hand, the incidence might be positive, that means that Spanish becomes a helping tool for English learners. On the other hand, the incidence may be negative since the native language can affect the learning process of the foreign language
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