The second language acquisition of English tense, aspect and modality [electronic resource] Dalila Ayoun, University of Arizona

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ayoun, Dalila, 1963- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--French speakers.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company 2025

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Tense, aspect, modality/mood

1.1 Introduction

1.1.1 Time and tense

1.1.2 Aspect

1.1.3 Mood and modality

1.2 Tense, aspect and verbal inflections

1.2.1 Present tense and aspect in French and English

1.2.2 Future tense and aspect in French and English

1.2.3 Past tense and aspect in French and English

1.3 Modality in French and English

1.3.1 Types of modality

1.3.2 Expressing modality in English

1.3.3 Expressing modality in French

1.3.4 Summary

Chapter 2 Tense, aspect, mood, modality

2.1 Introduction

2.2 From the morpheme-order studies to the Aspect hypothesis

2.3 Internal and external interfaces

2.3.1 A generative theoretical perspective

2.3.2 Monolingual and bilingual child acquisition

2.3.2.1 Syntax-discourse interface

2.3.2.2 Syntactic-semantic interface

2.3.2.3 Morphology-phonology interface

2.3.2.4 Syntax-lexicon interface: Nominal compounds and denominal adjectives

2.3.2.5 Morphosyntax and pragmatics interface

2.3.3 Adult L2 acquisition

2.3.4 TAM properties

2.4 Cognitive linguistics

2.5 Summary

Chapter 3 Review of the literature

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Tense-aspect studies

3.3 Modality studies

3.3.1 English corpora

3.3.2 Studies with learner corpora

3.3.3 Studies with both large and learner corpora

3.3.4 Empirical studies

3.3.5 Classroom studies

3.4 Studies with Francophone ESL or EFL participants

3.4.1 Tense-aspect studies

3.4.2 Modality studies

3.5 Summary

Chapter 4 Methodology and pretest results

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Research questions and hypotheses

4.2.1 Research questions

4.2.2 Hypotheses

4.2.2.1 The Interface hypothesis

4.2.2.2 The Feature Reassembly hypothesis

4.3 Methodology

4.3.1 Participants

4.3.2 Tasks and procedure

4.3.2.1 Pretest

4.3.2.2 Production task

4.3.2.3 Cloze tests

4.3.2.4 Sentence completion tasks

4.4 Results

Chapter 5 Results of the production task

5.1 Overall written narrative results by groups

5.1.1 Overall written narrative results

5.1.2 Overall written results

5.1.3 Overall written narrative results

5.2 Production by verb forms

5.2.1 Production by verb forms

5.2.2 Production by verb forms

5.2.3 Production by verb forms

5.3 Production by modal auxiliaries

5.3.1 Production by modal auxiliaries

5.3.2 Production by modal auxiliaries

5.3.3 Production by modal auxiliaries

5.4 Qualitative error analysis

5.4.1 EFL group's errors

5.4.2 ESL group's errors

5.5 Summary

Chapter 6 Results of the cloze tests

6.1 Cloze test results

6.2 Cloze test results

6.3 Cloze test results

6.4 Summary

Chapter 7 Results of the sentence completion tasks

7.1 Sentence completion task results

7.2 Sentence completion task results

7.3 Summary

Chapter 8 Discussion and conclusion

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Print version Ayoun, Dalila, 1963- Second language acquisition of English tense, aspect and modality

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9789027244680

9027244685

OCLC:

1534945274

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