The Second Language Acquisition of French Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-272-0526-1
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 252 Seiten, Gewicht: 610 g

Reihe: AILA Applied Linguistics Series

Temporal-aspectual systems have a great potential of informing our understanding of the developing competence of second language learners. So far, the vast majority of empirical studies investigating L2 acquisition have largely focused on past temporality, neglecting the acquisition of the expression of the present and future temporalities with rare exceptions (aside from ESL learners), leaving unanswered the question of how the investigation of different types of temporality may inform our understanding of the acquisition of temporal, aspectual and mood systems as a whole. This monograph addresses this question by focusing on three main objectives: a) to contribute to the already impressive body of research in the L2 acquisition of tense, aspect and mood/modality from a generative perspective, and in so doing to present a more complete picture of the processes of L2 acquisition in general; b) to bridge the gap between linguistic theory and L2 acquisition; c) to make empirical findings more accessible to language instructors by proposing concrete pedagogical applications.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ayoun, Dalila

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Tense, temporality and aspect
Chapter 2. Mood and modality
Chapter 3. Tense, aspect, modality and the minimalist program: From syntactic theory to language acquisition
Chapter 4. The second language acquisition of tense, mood and aspect
Chapter 5.1 Methodology and findings: Production tasks
Chapter 5.2 Findings: Cloze tests
Chapter 5.3 Findings: Sentence completion tasks
Chapter 6. Pedagogical implications for foreign language learners and teachers
Chapter 7. Directions for future research
Appendices
References
Name index
Subject index