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Verb-Form Clustering and Syllabus Design.

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Hill, Victor J. – System, 1996

Argues that social language should be delayed in a second language course until a core of factual language has been built up. The article presents an account of verb-form clustering and of some of the problems caused by discrete treatment of verb forms. It also suggests how to implement verb clustering within the context of syllabus design. (11…

Descriptors: Associative Learning, Context Effect, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Design

The Emergence of the Imperfect in Spanish as a Foreign Language: The Association between Imperfective Morphology and State Verbs

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Camps, Joaquim – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2005

This descriptive study analyzed the emergence of the imperfect in the written production of 30 beginning learners of Spanish. The analysis focused on the use of the imperfect and the morphological marking of state verbs. The results follow the patterns predicted by the aspect hypothesis (Andersen and Shirai, 1994), and support some refinements of…

Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages), Verbs