Past tense in L2 acquisition

[Shoba Bandi-Rao]

SOME MORE ADDITIONS TO YOUR LIST...

BECK'S STUDY DOES NOT FOCUS ON FRENCH L2 LEARNERS BUT DOES ADDRESS THE 
INFLUENCE OF CLASSROOM LEARNING ON THE FREQUENCY EFFECTS ON IRREGULAR 
VERBS.

Beck, M. L. (1997). Regular verbs, past tense and frequency: tracking 
down a potential source of NS/NNS competence differences. Second Language 
Research, 13(2), 93-115.

BORDEN'S AND MY OWN STUDY ADDRESS THE ACQUISITION OF THE PAST TENSE IN 
L2.

Borden, D. S. (1994). Non-native speakers of English and denominal 
regularization. Ph. D Thesis. University of Texas, Denton.

Bandi-Rao, S. (2001). Inflecting denominal verbs: The role of semantics. 
Paper presented at the Twenty-Sixth Annual BUCLD, Boston, November 3. 

FROM A DISCOURSE PERSPECTIVE, HERE ARE THE FOLLOWING...

Ellis, R. (1987). Interlanguage variability in narrative discourse: Style 
shifting in the use of the past tense. Studies in Second Language 
Acquisition, 9, 1-20.

Wolfram, W. (1985). Variability in tense marking: A case for the obvious. 
Language Learning, 35(2), 229-253.

PART OF THIS STUDY ADDRESSES THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE IN L2 AS WELL.

Bailey, N. (1987). The importance of meaning over form in L2 system 
building: An unresolved issue. Ph. D. Thesis. Graduate Center, City 
University of New York.

Best,
Shoba

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Shoba Bandi Rao
Doctoral Student/ Applied Linguistics
New York University
Work: (212) 998-5685
http://pages.nyu.edu/~sqb4972
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jean Pierre Chevrot <Jean-Pierre.Chevrot at u-grenoble3.fr>
Date: Monday, January 7, 2002 5:46 am
Subject: Past tense in L2 acquisition

> Dear all
> One of my students is interested in the learning of the past tense in
> English as second language (by French learners). One of her goals 
> is to
> consider the effect of the school learning of the rule on the 
> patterns of
> regularization. She has tried to get some references
> but she only managed to obtain the papers related to the 
> acquisition of the
> past tense in English as first language.
> Please, do you know some references about the learning of past 
> tense *in
> second language acquisition* ?
> Thanks for your help.
> Jean-Pierre Chevrot
> 
> Jean-Pierre Chevrot, Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3, BP 25, 38 240 
> Grenoble 
> Cedex, France.
> 
> 
> 
>