Reverse-Order Reports and the Acquisition of Tense

Beyond the Principle of Chronological Order

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4501593
AutoresKathleen Bardovi-Harlig (0000-0003-4058-9318, autor de correspondencia), Kathleen Bardovi‐harlig
Año1994
Volumen44
Número2
Páginas243-282
Fecha de publicación1994-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage Learning (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0023-8333 • E-ISSN: 1467-9922
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-1770.1994.tb01102.x
OpenAlexW2088083347
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias citadas14

This article presents the results of a longitudinal study of the expression of temporality in interlanguage that followed 16 adult learners of English as a second language for an average period of 10 months. It focuses on these learners' presentation of a specific rhetorical device, the reverse-order report, showing how these learners used tense contrast and time adverbials to produce such reports, and how the emergence of these reports related to more general patterns of tense acquisition. The study indicates that these learners marked reverse-order reports as deviations from chronological order by their use of tense contrast, time adverbials, and other means, with time adverbials playing a pivotal role. The study also shows that high accuracy of past tense use was a necessary prerequisite for the emergence of reverse-order reports, and that it was the emergence of these environment for the emergence of the pluperfect (and not vice versa). It further showed that acquisitional prerequisites, and not instruction, played the key role in these acquisitional sequences

Contrast (vision) · Interlanguage · Linguistics · Morpheme · Order (exchange) · Past tense · Present tense · Presentation (obstetrics) · Temporality · Verb · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Second Language Learning and Teaching