Mapping tense form and meaning for L2 learning - From theory to practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5832220 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Agneta Marie-Louise Svalberg (University of Leicester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 417-445 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-042X • E-ISSN: 1613-4141 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/iral-2016-0105 |
| OpenAlex | W2793704721 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 29 |
English tense presents second/foreign language learners with considerable cognitive challenges and, it will be argued, grammars and textbooks are generally inadequate sources of knowledge of the tense system as system. A modified version of Reichenbach's (1947. Elements of Symbolic Logic . New York: Macmillan) tense model is then presented. The original model has been criticized for its inability to deal with temporal relationships in natural text (e. g. Declerck, R. 1986. From Reichenbach (1947) to Comrie (1985) and beyond. Towards a theory of tense. Lingua 70. 305-364; Declerck, R. 2015. Tense in English. Its structure and use in discourse . London: Routledge; Carroll, M., C. Von Stutterheim & W. Klein. 2003. Two ways of construing complex temporal structures. In F. Lenz (ed.), Deictic Conceptualisation of Time, Space and Person , 97-134. Amsterdam: Benjamins). It is argued here instead that speakers employ the limited choices the system provides creatively, to express a wide range of temporal and interpersonal relations in the real world. The tense - aspect and tense - modality interfaces are briefly discussed. A pedagogical Language Awareness approach (Svalberg, A. M-L. 2007. Language Awareness and Language Learning. Language Teaching 40(4). 287-308) is then illustrated, with the theoretical model as mediating artefact providing visual and metalinguistic scaffolding, allowing learners to investigate tense use in context while drawing on both intuitive understanding and conscious knowledge
Deixis · Past tense · Present tense · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Second Language Acquisition and Learning
Introduction to the Grammar of English
Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar
Attending to Form and Content in the Input
Languaging
A Comprehensive grammar of the English language
Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition
The Origin of Speech
The Perfect in English and German
The Role of Consciousness in Second Language Learning1
Peer interaction, cognitive conflict, and anxiety on a Grammar Awareness course for language teachers
The Problem of False Language Awareness
Meanings into pictures
Engagement with language
Grammar myths
Student teachers’ collaborative construction of grammar awareness
Language awareness as methodology
Are English and Malay worlds apart? Typological distance and the learning of tense and aspect concepts
Sociocultural theory and second language acquisition
Language awareness and language learning
Language Awareness in language learning and teaching
Tense in English
Language Is a Complex Adaptive System
Chapter Three
Another Piece of the Puzzle
From Reichenbach (1947) to Comrie (1985) and beyond
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |