Title: Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition: Form, Meaning, and Use
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0631221492
ISBN 13: 9780631221494
Binding: paperback
Condition: New
Weight: 25 ounces

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This book explores the association of form and meaning in the acquisition of tense and aspect by adult learners of nine target languages. The book provides a survey and synthesis of studies from five perspectives: meaning-oriented approaches, acquisitional sequences, the aspect hypothesis, the discourse hypothesis, and the effect of instruction

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Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig is Professor and Chair of Second Language Studies at Indiana University. Her primary research interests are second-language temporality and tense-mood-aspect systems and interlanguage pragmatics. She has served as President of the American Association of Applied Linguistics (2008) and former editor of Language Learning (2002-2005). Major publications include Themes in SLA Research (John Benjamins, 2006) and Interlanguage Pragmatics: Exploring Institutional Talk (Erlbaum, 2005).

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