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Kick the Ball or Kicked the Ball? Perception of the Past Morpheme "-ed" by Second Language Learners
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Bell, Philippa; Trofimovich, Pavel; Collins, Laura – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2015
Explanations for the well-documented second language (L2) learning challenge of the English regular past include verb semantics (Bardovi-Harlig, 2000), phonetic properties (Goad, White, & Steele, 2003), and frequency factors (Collins, Trofimovich, White, Cardoso, & Horst, 2009). Difficulty perceiving past-tense morphology (i.e., hearing…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Second Language Learning, Verbs, Semantics
The Facilitative Role of L1 Influence in Tense-Aspect Marking: A Comparison of Hispanophone and Anglophone Learners of French
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Izquierdo, Jesus; Collins, Laura – Modern Language Journal, 2008
English learners of French whose first language (L1) does not mark the perfective/imperfective distinction have shown verb semantic influence and an overall preference for perfective over imperfective in their use of second language (L2) tense-aspect markers. This study investigated whether learners whose L1 marks the perfective/imperfective…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Syntax, Second Language Learning
L1 Differences and L2 Similarities: Teaching Verb Tenses in English
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Collins, Laura – ELT Journal, 2007
In making decisions regarding the focus for grammar teaching, ESL instructors may take into consideration errors that appear to result from the influence of their students' first language(s) (L1). There is also evidence from language acquisition research suggesting that for some grammatical features, learners of different L1 backgrounds may face…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning