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The Particulars on Universals: A Comparison of the Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Morphology among Japanese- and French-Speaking Learners of English

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Collins, Laura – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2004

This study investigated the relationship between L1 and the developmental sequences for the acquisition of temporal morphology that are predicted by the aspect hypothesis. The use of tense-aspect markers in 7,784 past contexts by 139 Japanese-and French-speaking ESL learners was analyzed. A repeated measures ANOVA supported the predictions of the…

Descriptors: Morphemes, French, Japanese, Native Speakers

Dream to Reality: Towards a Psycholinguistically Based Methodology

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Cox, Jerry L. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1975

Failure in FL teaching is caused primarily by the theoretical view of language on which methodology has been based. A new theoretical base is required which is to be found in psycholinguistic research. The purpose of this paper is to inform the FL teacher of recent results of such research. (Author/KM)

Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Learning Levels, Language Universals