The Effects of Formal Instruction on the Second-Language Acquisition of Temporal Location
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4502782 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ewa Buczowska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Richard M Weist (SUNY Fredonia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 535-554 |
| Publication date | 1991-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Learning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8333 • E-ISSN: 1467-9922 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-1770.1991.tb00692.x |
| OpenAlex | W2127008729 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 18 |
The purpose of this research was to contrast the acquisition of temporal systems in L1 and tutored L2 learners. The research focused on the distinction between absolute and relative temporal location: the former relates event time to speech time and the latter relates event time to reference time. An experiment was conducted using a sentence-picture matching task with Polish adults learning English and American children ranging in age from 21⁄2 to 61⁄2 years. The comprehension test contained contrasts that required absolute location (e.g., past/future) and relative location (e.g., before/after). L1 learners comprehended problems involving absolute temporal contrasts first and those with a relative component later. Tutored L2 learners follow a different pattern. Their initial temporal system had both absolute and relative dimensions. A second major difference between L1 and tutored L2 learners concerned the acquisition of tense and aspect. L1 learners understood both tense and aspect contrasts from the earliest phase of development evaluated. Tutored L2 learners could understand tense well before aspect. The research emphasizes the relevance of pedagogical practices to the foreign language learning process as opposed to so-called "natural sequences
Cognitive psychology · Comprehension · Contrast (vision) · Event (particle physics) · Linguistics · Past tense · Second-language acquisition · Sentence · Verb · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Language Development and Disorders · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Psychology
The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition
The Acquisition of Narratives
A First Language
Tense and aspect
Children's comprehension of ‘before’ and ‘after’ reinvestigated
The acquisition of the present perfect
On the temporal contour of child language
Complex sentences
The defective tense hypothesis
A cross-linguistic perspective on the development of temporal systems
Spatial and temporal location in child language
The emergence of temporal adverbs in child Polish
L2 Data
Natural Sequences in Child Second Language Acquisition 1
The Effect of Formal Instruction on Second Language Acquisition1
Tense
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1991 - 2013 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |