The Acquisition of Perfective and Imperfective Aspect: A Comparative Study of Arabic and Japanese Learners of English

The extent to which native language transfer plays a role in second language (L2) learning is a very significant question in the field of second language acquisition (Gabriele, 2005; Schwartz and prouse, 1996). The present study investigates the role of transfer in the acquisition of aspect in L2 En...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christensen, Erik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas 2009-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5721