Reverse-Order Reports and the Acquisition of Tense: Beyond the Principle of Choronological Order  

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Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies (Full Text) vol. 44 no. 2 (Jun. 1994), page 243-282.
Fulltext: 44_02_Bardovi-Harlig.pdf (1.71MB)

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This article presents the results of a longitudinal study of the expression of temporality in interlanguage that followed 16 adult learners of ENglish as a second language for an average period of 10 months. It focuses on these learners' presentation of a specific rhetorical device, the reverse-order report, showing how these learners used tense contrast and time adverbials to produce such reports, and how the emergence of these reports related to more general patterns of tense acquisition. The study indicates that these learners marked reverse-order as deviations from chronological order by their use of tense constrast, time adverbials, and other means, with time adverbials playing a pivotal role. The study also shows that high accuracy of past tense use was a necessary prerequisite for the emergence of reverse-order reports, and that it was the emergence of these reports that created the environment for the emergence of the pluperfect (and not vice versa). It further showed that acquisitional prerequisites, and not instruction, played the key role in these acquisitional sequences.

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