This book explores the association of form and meaning in the acquisition of tense and aspect by adult learners of nine target languages. The book provides a survey and synthesis of studies from five perspectives: meaning-oriented approaches, acquisitional sequences, the aspect hypothesis, the discourse hypothesis, and the effect of instruction
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"The author has done an excellent job in covering with scope and depth of the acquistion of tense and aspect in second language learning and can be said to have achieved the three goals identified at the beginning of the book, namely surveying the field, explicating methodological issues, and providing a synthesis." Applied Linguistics
"Bardovi-Harlig's substantial volume, bringing together over two decades of research, is a model of thoroughness, informative research synthesis and readability. Aimed primarily at the research community, this comprehensive yet accessible treatment of an important area of second language acquisition research will also be of interest to second/foreign language curriculum developers and teachers." The Canadian Modern Language Review
"This book is certain to have a major influence on this very active field of inquiry. There is NO book or any other publication that brings together between two covers the diverse studies that have been done on second language acquisition of tense and aspect. And Bardovi-Harlig does an excellent job of providing a comprehensive unified presentation of such diverse research." Professor Roger Andersen of UCLA.
"The review is comprehensive, accurate and highly readable. Particularly important for the field is its contribution in bringing together different areas of L2 tense-aspect research in one accessible monograph, which presents a comprehensive picture of how L2 learners acquire temporality. I do not know of any other area of SLA where the total picture of acquisition has been described so comprehensively. The monograph will be a landmark in SLA research." Professor Yasuhiro Shirai of Cornell University.
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This book explores the acquisition of tense and aspect by adult second language learners of nine target languages. The author focuses on the association of form and meaning in learners' emerging system of temporal expression. The book provides a survey and synthesis of studies from five perspectives: the meaning-oriented approach, acquisitional sequences, the aspect hypothesis, the discourse hypothesis, and the effect of instruction. In addition, original longitudinal and cross-sectional studies on the acquisition of English by the author illustrate each of the perspectives and explore the importance of research design and analysis in acquisition research.
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Bardovi-Harlig is Cloud Nine,
By Myrna Goldstein (Milan, Italy) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition: Form, Meaning, and Use (Language Learning Monograph) (Paperback)
I love grammar. I eat it. I sleep with it. I want to be buried with it, especially Professor Bardovi-Harlig's tome. Every time I open it, I immediately find what I want and, even better, I understand the explanations, the reasoning, the penetrating logic of it all. Really. If you are struggling with tense and aspect, this book will put you on Cloud Nine. I've been on it since she graced our Master in Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language class with a lecture at Saint Michael's College in 2002. Thanks to her and to another amazing grammar professor (with whom I had the honor to study), also named Kathleen - M. Kathleen Mahnke - a veteran of Indiana University where Prof. Bardovi-Harlig hangs her hat. (Yes, I even debated changing my name to Kathleen to be able to know as much about grammar as these two giants combined.) So I'm settling for Cloud Nine.
He-llooooooooo down there! Come on up! Myrna Goldstein, B.S.J. (Northwestern University), MATESL (St. Michael's College) Founder, Director Are You in Your English File?® Second Language Learning Research Center Milan, Italy
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This book is about the acquisition of temporal expression in second language. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lexical aspectual categories, film retell tasks, tutored learners, emergent verbal morphology, lexical aspectual category, foreground clauses, targetlike use, deviations from chronological order, dual adverbials, uninstructed learners, acquisitional sequences, lexical aspectual class, distributional bias hypothesis, morpheme order studies, pluperfect progressive, expressing temporality, past morphology, experimental learners, lexical stage, discourse hypothesis, acquisitional patterns, oral corpus, first language influence, aspect hypothesis, perfective past Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Giacalone Ramat, Sang Wook, Modern Times, Cambridge University Press, Conspiring Factors, Arabic Oral, Profile of Learners, Japanese Oral, United States, Abdullah Arabic, Buenos Aires, Spanish Oral, The Emergence of Past Progressive, Arabic Saleh, Moroccan Arabic, Another Piece of the Puzzle, Bardovi-Harlig Mixed, Design Instruction Focus, European Science Foundation, Hamad Arabic, Instruction Subject, Pink Panther, Temporality Personal, Charlie Chaplin, Design Instruction Morphology Discourse New!
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This book is about the acquisition of temporal expression in second language. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lexical aspectual categories, film retell tasks, tutored learners, emergent verbal morphology, lexical aspectual category, foreground clauses, targetlike use, deviations from chronological order, dual adverbials, uninstructed learners, acquisitional sequences, lexical aspectual class, distributional bias hypothesis, morpheme order studies, pluperfect progressive, expressing temporality, past morphology, experimental learners, lexical stage, discourse hypothesis, acquisitional patterns, oral corpus, first language influence, aspect hypothesis, perfective past Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Giacalone Ramat, Sang Wook, Modern Times, Cambridge University Press, Conspiring Factors, Arabic Oral, Profile of Learners, Japanese Oral, United States, Abdullah Arabic, Buenos Aires, Spanish Oral, The Emergence of Past Progressive, Arabic Saleh, Moroccan Arabic, Another Piece of the Puzzle, Bardovi-Harlig Mixed, Design Instruction Focus, European Science Foundation, Hamad Arabic, Instruction Subject, Pink Panther, Temporality Personal, Charlie Chaplin, Design Instruction Morphology Discourse New!
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- Second Language Acquisition (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Wolfgang Klein on 4 pages
- Second Language Acquisition: Foreign Language Learning (Multilingual Matters) by Bill VanPatten in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Natural Approach (Language Teaching Methodology) by Tracy D. Terrell on page 344
- The Pink Panther by Max Allan Collins on page 200
- Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on page 103
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