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The development of past tense morphology in L2 Spanish /

This book presents an extended analysis of the development of L2 Spanish past tense morphology among L1 English-speaking learners. The study addresses three major questions: (1) what is the developmental pattern of acquisition of past tense verbal morphology among tutored learners? (2) what are the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Salaberry, M. Rafael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2000.
Colección:Studies in bilingualism ; v. 22.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Introduction
  • 1.1. English-Spanish contrasts
  • 1.2. Conflicting theoretical claims
  • 1.3. Focus of the study
  • Ch. 2 Aspect
  • 2.1. Definition of aspect
  • 2.2. Covert and overt categories of aspect
  • 2.3. Operational tests of inherent lexical semantics
  • 2.4. Lexical, grammatical and situation aspect
  • Ch. 3 development of aspect in L1
  • 3.1. development of temporality in a first language: Piagetian proposals
  • 3.2. Theoretical explanations and debate
  • 3.3. Learning capacities and cognitive development
  • Ch. 4 development of aspect in L2
  • 4.1. pragmatic marking of aspect
  • 4.2. morphosyntactic marking of aspect
  • 4.3. Selected previous studies
  • 4.4. role of instruction
  • Ch. 5 Research methodology in the analysis of past tense morphology
  • 5.1. Pilot study
  • 5.2. Summary and projection of results for main study
  • 5.3. Main study
  • Ch. 6 Analysis of date sets
  • 6.1. Results from movie narrative task
  • 6.2. Results from cloze and editing task
  • 6.3. Results from joint writing task
  • Ch. 7 Developmental stages in the acquisition of Spanish past tense morphology
  • 7.1. Summary of findings
  • 7.2. Significance of the present findings in the context of previous studies.