The Acquisition of Aspect in a Second Language

Rastelli shows how data comparison is improving our understanding of how learners acquire the aspectual distinctions of the target-language.

Stefano Rastelli (Author)

9781108829038, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 December 2020

75 pages
23 x 15 x 0.5 cm, 0.15 kg

The acquisition of the aspect is a central area in Second Language Acquisition research, the subject of hundreds of papers and dozens of edited volumes, monographs and special issues. This introduction provides the reader not only with a concise and plain presentation of the main hypotheses advanced in the past, but also with an overview of contemporary research. Stefano Rastelli shows how comparison of behavioural (production-comprehension), processing and statistical data is improving - and partially changing - our understanding of how learners acquire the aspectual distinctions of the target-language.

1. What are the Key Concepts
2 What are the Implications for SLA?
3 What are the New Avenues for Research?
4 What are the Key Readings?

Subject Areas: Language learning: audio-visual & multimedia [CJBV], Language teaching & learning [other than ELT CJ], Language acquisition [CFDC], Linguistics [CF]