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Book The Role of Lexical Aspect in the Acquisition of English Past Tense by Saudi EFL Learners

Download or read book The Role of Lexical Aspect in the Acquisition of English Past Tense by Saudi EFL Learners written by Joman Hassan Shami and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study investigates the role of lexical aspect in the acquisition (use and development) of the simple past, past progressive and present tenses by a group of Saudi EFL learners, adopting the Aspect Hypothesis as a general framework. For the simple past tense, data were elicited using a fill-in-the-gap test (Gap-Fill Past), personal narration (Free-writing), story narration (Tom and Jerry) as well as a Two- Option Multiple Choice Task. The results stemming from the different tasks offer evidence both for and against the Aspect Hypothesis, which claims that use of the perfective past spreads from achievements to accomplishments to activities and finally to states. With regard to Gap-Fill Past, the results show that the use of the simple past was consistent with the predictions of the Aspect Hypothesis, except with the lexical aspectual class of activities, which showed the least use of the simple past. On the other hand, results from the Free-writing and Tom and Jerry tasks show that the participants used the past tense best with state predicates which provides counterevidence to the claims of the Aspect Hypothesis regarding the distribution of perfective past verbal morphology. For the other two tenses, only the fill-in-the-gap tests and Two-Option Multiple Choice Task were used. The results of the past progressive support the Aspect Hypothesis in that the use of the progressive is mostly associated with activities and then with accomplishments. The semantic and structural complexities of the present perfect had a stronger effect on the use of the tense than the lexical aspect of the predicates. The Analysis of the alternative forms for the three tenses gave evidence for the Prototypical Hypothesis regarding the associations between verbal morphology and lexical aspect. It was observed that the present form was used mostly with states and the progressive with activities. It was also noticed that the past and base forms were used mostly with accomplishments and achievements. Finally, it was observed that the learners' interlanguage was influenced by their first language, Arabic. The similarity in form but differences in scope between the two languages has an effect of the learners' use of the different form.

Book The Past Tense System in English and Romanian

Download or read book The Past Tense System in English and Romanian written by Hannes Krehan and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Linguistic Typology and Language Universals, language: English, abstract: As Martin Haase points out, the term ‘tense’ in any given language can hardly be isolated. In a broader context, it usually consists of an interwoven system, the so-called Tense-Aspect-Modality (TAM). English and Romanian are no exception. Haase states that “it is far from simple to attribute TAM-categories clearly to either tense, aspect or mood, since most categories contain a temporal as well as an aspectual or modal meaning.” (Haase, 1994:135). In order not to go beyond the intended scope of this analysis, I will thus straightforwardly compare English and Romanian past tenses, thereby avoiding a detailed discussion on the inner TAM workings of each language, as this could easily fill entire books on its own. Nonetheless, when absolutely necessary, I will include mood and aspect since both of them cannot be entirely ignored in an analysis about time-related utterances. My main concern, however, is to illustrate the general differences of the tense systems rather than to consider all the exceptions that follow in their wake. Thus, before explaining the construction of the main past tenses, I will provide a short overview and definition of the terms tense, aspect and mood in the English and Romanian language.

Book Regular Past Tense Acquisition in L2 English

Download or read book Regular Past Tense Acquisition in L2 English written by Victoria Dwight and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The acquisition of the Past tense morphology by L2 learners

Download or read book The acquisition of the Past tense morphology by L2 learners written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Acquisition of the Present Progressive and Past Tense Morphemes

Download or read book Acquisition of the Present Progressive and Past Tense Morphemes written by Carol Goossens' and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition

Download or read book Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition written by Stephen D. Krashen and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stadler Georg 1862 1935

Download or read book Stadler Georg 1862 1935 written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zeitungsausschnitte.

Book Introducing Second Language Acquisition

Download or read book Introducing Second Language Acquisition written by Muriel Saville-Troike and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear and practical introduction to second language acquisition, written for students encountering the topic for the first time.

Book The Role of the Monitor in the Acquisition Sequence of Twelve English Morphemes by Adult English as a Scond Language Learners from Four Different Language Groups

Download or read book The Role of the Monitor in the Acquisition Sequence of Twelve English Morphemes by Adult English as a Scond Language Learners from Four Different Language Groups written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Error Analysis in the Acquisition of Past Tense Simple by Slovene Learners of English

Download or read book Error Analysis in the Acquisition of Past Tense Simple by Slovene Learners of English written by Vesna Ošlak and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Multi word Verbs in Prerecorded Instructor Speech

Download or read book Multi word Verbs in Prerecorded Instructor Speech written by Tyler Theyerl and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in corpus linguistics have contributed greatly to second language (L2) research and teaching. For example, evidence of high-frequency vocabulary in authentic language has been particularly useful for identifying important, general English vocabulary and words distinctive to academia. However, most academic corpora investigations use written texts and broad-based approaches, overlooking differences between written and spoken language and localized vocabulary patterns. This study examines spoken academic language in a university context by addressing a vocabulary category often associated with conversation, multi-word verbs. This examination was completed by compiling a localized, spoken academic English corpus, the Falcon Instructor Speech Corpus (FISC), containing 52,725 words from 15 different instructors at a university in the United States. Four research questions drove the investigation: (1) Which of the multi-word verbs identified in the local corpus occur most frequently? (2) How do the most frequent multi-word verbs in the local corpus compare to phrasal verb frequency lists from large English corpora? (3) What proportion of the local corpus is comprised of multi-word verbs? (4) Does multi-word verb use differ between general academic contexts and ESL contexts in the local corpus? Relevant literature on corpora and the importance of vocabulary, listening, and multi-word verbs for university English language learners (ELLs) are surveyed. Next, transcription, corpus compiling, and data gathering methods are outlined. Results suggest 68 multi-word verbs salient for ELLs at the university and provide evidence that at least 3% of words in the corpus are part of multi-word verbs. The data also shows multi-word verbs were used twice as often in general academic contexts than in ESL contexts, and that a recent, pedagogical phrasal verb list created from large corpora analyses only covered 25% of multiword verb occurrences in FISC. Teaching implications and areas for future research are offered.

Book The Role of Frequency in L2 Structure Accuracy

Download or read book The Role of Frequency in L2 Structure Accuracy written by Naif Almulla and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The role of frequency in language acquisition has been a controversial issue for a long time. In usage-based theories, frequency of input is claimed to be a very influential factor in the process of language acquisition. However, there has been relatively little research on frequency effects (especially in L2 acquisition) considering the pervasive role it is claimed to have in language learning. Therefore, the present study was conducted to further investigate and understand the nature of such effects. This study's sample consisted of 18 English native speakers (as a baseline group) along with 41 ESL learners. The ESL learners were further divided into 2 proficiency groups. The infinitive-gerund complement constructions were chosen as the linguistic structure under focus which, because of their lexical specificity and non-salient semantic differences, are considered difficult to master by ESL learners. Based on different frequency criteria, 10 verbs that license infinitive and gerund structures were selected to compose 20 stimulus sentences which were read in a word-by-word self-paced reading grammaticality judgment task. Accuracy results and reading times (RTs) for the complement constructions were measured and analyzed. The results showed that higher construction frequency (i.e., infinitive) made it easier for ESL learners to acquire. In addition, lexical frequency effects were more apparent in the learner groups. It was also found that real time processing was sensitive to grammaticality across the 3 groups and that the less proficient the group, the more sensitive it was to frequency.