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