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Peer reviewedTickoo, Asha – World Englishes, 1996
Examines samples of writing by first-language speakers of Vietnamese to show that grounding, rather than lexical aspect, accounts for their selective marking of past tense. The article suggests that the learner-hypothesis governing this use of English past tense derives from the transference of a grounding-marking principle from a tense-free…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Language Usage, Second Language Instruction
