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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Simple Past Tense"”.
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EXPLICIT WRITTEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK AND LANGUAGE APTITUDE IN SLA: IMPLICATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF LINGUISTIC ACCURACY
… written feedback on errors with the simple past tense, the present perfect tense, dropped pronouns, and pronominal duplication. This inquiry also considered the extent to which learner differences in language-analytic ability (LAA), as measured by the LLAMA F, mediated the effects of …
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Structural transfer in third language acquisition: the case of Lingala-French speakers acquiring English
… event which took place and was completed in the past. The linguistic phenomena under study inform us that English uses the simple past in a past completed event while French and Lingala use the ‘passé composé’ and the remote or recent past, respectively. The study circumscribes the tense …
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Investigating past tense errors committed by Grade 10 English First Additional Language learners in Tshinane Circuit, Vhembe District
This study was aimed at analysing the written past tense errors of irregular verbs committed by Grade 10 English First Additional Language (FAL) learners, in five selected schools in Tshinane Circuit, Vhembe District in Limpopo Province. Grade 10 serves as the basis for the Further Education and …
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A comparison of fifth-graders' oral and written stories
… were longer than their written stories. The simplest narrative pattern, "situation + problem + solution" (King, 1979:3), was the most prevalent structure. All the students used active voice in both types of stories, with the majority using simple past tense. The students showed a preference …
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THE EFFECTS OF EXPLICIT FORM-FOCUSED INSTRUCTION ON L2 ORAL PROFICIENCY DEVELOPMENT
… minutes of grammar instruction focused on three past tense forms: simple past, past continuous, and past perfect, as well as ten minutes of peer feedback. Between the pretest and posttest, the FFI and FFI + PF participants received seven weeks of instruction before their weekly cartoon narration. …