Publications

Publication details [#50180]

Svalberg, Agneta and Hjh Fatimah bte hj awg Chuchu. 1998. Are English and Malay worlds apart? Typological distance and the learning of tense and aspect concepts. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 8 (1) : 27–60.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

aspect | error | language transfer | second language acquisition | tense

Language as a subject

English | Malay

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This analysis of the use of tense and aspect in the English of adult Malay speakers, argues that a tenseless first language is highly likely to have a great impact on the frequency and the persistence of tense and aspect errors in English as a second/foreign language.