Research Design And Methodology In Studies On L2 Tense And Aspect

Author : M. Rafael Salaberry
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 1934078166
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research Design and Methodology in Studies on L2 Tense and Aspect written by M. Rafael Salaberry and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Design and Methodology in Studies on Second Language Tense and Aspect provides an up-to-date review of past and current methodologies for the study of the L2 acquisition of tense and aspect. More specifically, the book addresses the following issues related to the design of studies for research in tense and aspect: Theoretical frameworks (e.g., Are research questions investigated within one theoretical approach incompatible with other approaches?) Elicitation procedures (Do different types of tasks elicit different types of tense-aspect data?) Coding of data (e.g. How are lexical categories defined and coded?) Data analysis (e.g., What statistical tests are more appropriate to analyze language data?) The volume provides new insights into the study of L2 tense-aspect by bringing together well renowned scholars with experience in the research design of research this area of the field.

Author : Robert Fuchs
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902726094X
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research written by Robert Fuchs and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expression of temporal relations, notably through tense and aspect, is central in all processes of communication, but commonly perceived and described as a major hurdle for non-native speakers. While this topic has already received considerable attention in the SLA literature, it features less prominently in recent corpus-based studies of learner language. This volume intends to close this gap. It shows which additional insights into the area of tense and aspect in learner language can be gained using corpus data, addressing the following questions: In which ways do corpus-based studies complement work based on other methods?; How can a corpus-based approach inform theories on the acquisition of tense and aspect specifically, and of language acquisition in general?; Are results language-specific or can universal principles be established?; How pervasive are effects of mode/register within learner corpus data?; What role does native and non-native input play?; Which methodological challenges come to the fore when using corpus data instead of elicited data?; How can the notion of “target(-like)” performance be operationalized for corpus material?; Which implications do the findings from the learner corpora have for the teaching and learning of the target language? Originally published as special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 4:2 (2018)

Author : Walter De Gruyter Incorporated
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934078150
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research Design and Methodology in Studies on Second Language Tense and Aspect written by Walter De Gruyter Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Franka Kermer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443893153
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cognitive Grammar Approach to Teaching Tense and Aspect in the L2 Context written by Franka Kermer and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume links Cognitive Grammar explanations to the area of second-language learning and instructed grammar teaching. It represents a contribution to empirically based knowledge promoting a new perspective on the process of teaching and learning about English language structures. The theoretical part of the book provides an overview of the basic tenets of Cognitive Grammar, and discusses elements of the theory that are of crucial importance for understanding English tense and aspect structures. The second part brings together these two fields of study and tests a Cognitive Grammar approach to teaching tense and aspect to less advanced learners of English. To this end, an experimental study was conducted, comparing the effects of Cognitive Grammar-inspired instruction on the language learning process with those of teaching methods which employ more traditional grammatical descriptions. As such, the book is of particular relevance to Cognitive Grammar research, and second-language learning and teaching research, and for learners and teachers of a foreign language.

Author : Zuzana Toth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110626497
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tense and Aspect in Italian Interlanguage written by Zuzana Toth and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expression of time is fundamental in communication and languages have developed a variety of means to encode temporal relations. When learning a new language, learners are often faced with the challenging task of discovering a new system of temporal relations. The present study investigates the development of tense and aspect marking in the interlanguage of L3 Italian learners enrolled in university language courses. It examines how the tense-aspect system develops in the interlanguage and how the acquisition process is shaped by factors such as the lexical aspectual value of the predicates and discourse grounding. The data indicate that both lexical aspect and discourse grounding influence the distribution of verbal morphology in the interlanguage. Semantically congruent pairings of lexical aspect, verbal morphology and discourse grounding are used more frequently and appropriately than less prototypical combinations. The acquisition process is also influenced by the learner’s L1, which was mostly German in the context of the present study. The study can be used as a guide for curricular decisions in language teaching, and for projecting further research on the development of tense-aspect marking in multilingual learners.

Author : Kate Bellamy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027265623
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World written by Kate Bellamy and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a multidisciplinary view of cutting-edge research on bilingualism in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions, with the aim of building a bridge between sub-fields and approaches that often find themselves isolated from one another. The thirteen contributions in this volume offer a glimpse of the diversity of bilingualism present in the Hispanic and Lusophone world, shedding light on the sheer variety of speaker communities, language pairings (e.g., Spanish-English, Spanish-Basque, Spanish-Dutch, Portuguese-Spanish-English, Portuguese-English, Spanish-K’ichee Maya, and Spanish-Ixcatec) and speaker types (e.g., simultaneous bilinguals, and early and late sequential bilinguals). The diversity present in this collection of papers, both in empirical coverage and methodological and theoretical approaches, will be of interest to a wide range of students and researchers in bilingualism and Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics.

Author : Rosamond Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1444163116
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Second Language Learning Theories written by Rosamond Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second Language Learning Theories is a clear and concise overview of the field of second language acquisition (SLA) theories. Written by a team of leading academics working in different SLA specialisms, this book provides expert analysis of the main theories from multiple perspectives to offer a broad and balanced introduction to the topic. The book covers all the main theoretical perspectives currently active in the SLA field and sets them in a broader perspective per chapter, e.g. linguistic, cognitive or sociolinguistic. Each chapter examines how various theories view language, the learner, and the acquisition process. Summaries of key studies and examples of data relating to a variety of languages illustrate the different theoretical perspectives. Each chapter concludes with an evaluative summary of the theories discussed. This third edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the very latest research in the field of SLA. Key features include: a fully re-worked chapter on cognitive models of language and language learning a new chapter on information processing, including the roles of different types of memory and knowledge in language learning the addition of a glossary of key linguistic terms to help the non-specialist a new timeline of second language learning theory development This third edition takes account of the significant developments that have taken place in the field in recent years. Highly active domains in which theoretical and methodological advances have been made are treated in more depth to ensure that this new edition of Second Language Learning Theories remains as fresh and relevant as ever.

Author : Henk J. Verkuyl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108839282
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect written by Henk J. Verkuyl and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A linguistic view of how natural language speakers package and open information, to deal with the expression of time.

Author : Stefano Rastelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108904653
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Acquisition of Aspect in a Second Language written by Stefano Rastelli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acquisition of the aspect is a central area in Second Language Acquisition research, the subject of hundreds of papers and dozens of edited volumes, monographs and special issues. This introduction provides the reader not only with a concise and plain presentation of the main hypotheses advanced in the past, but also with an overview of contemporary research. Stefano Rastelli shows how comparison of behavioural (production-comprehension), processing and statistical data is improving - and partially changing - our understanding of how learners acquire the aspectual distinctions of the target-language.

Author : Elaine E. Tarone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135445419
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research Methodology in Second-Language Acquisition written by Elaine E. Tarone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses salient theoretical issues concerning the validity of research methods in second-language acquisition, and provides critical analysis of contextualized versus sentence-level production approaches. The contributors present their views of competence versus performance, the nature of language acquisition data, research design, the relevance of contextualized data collection and interpretation, and the desirability of a particularistic nomothetic theoretical paradigm versus more comprehensive consideration of multiple realities and complex influencing factors. This book presents varying and antithetical approaches to the issues, bringing together the thinking and approaches of leading researchers in language acquisition, language education, and sociolinguistics in an engaging debate of great currency in the field.