The acquisition of English past tense in an instructional setting  

Oleh:

Salaberry, M. Rafael

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: SYSTEM: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 28 no. 1 (Mar. 2000), page 135-152.
Topik: Verbal morphology; Past tense; Lexical aspect; Irregular verbs; Perceptual saliency; Spanish; English; Classroom learning
Fulltext: Salaberry_M.Rafael.pdf (134.31KB)

Isi artikel

The development of past tense verbal morphology among second language learners has been associated with the lexical-semantics of verbal predicates, or the saliency and frequency of past tense morphology. The relative e?ect of the above-mentioned factors was analyzed in written and orally elicited narratives of 14 classroom learners of English (native speakers of Spanish in their home country). The results show that the e?ect of the cognitive saliency of frequent and irregular verbal morphology appears to be more important than the e?ect of lexical aspect in the beginning stages of development of in¯ectional endings. The results were analyzed from the perspective of two distinct cognitive processes in the development of in¯ectional endings in a second language: lexical (item) learning versus rule-based learning. The above-mentioned ®ndings are discussed in terms of the potential value of developmental sequences for second language acquisition.

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