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Verb Tense and ESL Composition: A Discourse Level Approach.
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Chappel, Virginia A.; Rodby, Judith – 1982
The problems encountered by English as second language (ESL) students in selecting verb tenses for their written discourse were investigated. Tape recorded interviews with four freshman composition students who had been referred for intensive work on verb errors were analyzed for students' explanations of their errors and the contexts in which…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns