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Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen; Bergstrom, Anna – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Investigates the acquisition of tense and aspect by learners of English as a Second Language and learners of French as a Foreign Language. Examination of written narratives collected from both groups using a film retell task reveals similar patterns of distribution of tense/aspect morphology across target languages. (29 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: College Students, Data Collection, English (Second Language), Films
Dicks, Joseph E. – 1995
Questioning the notion of a sensitive period for second language acquisition, this research examined students' interlanguage development in selected classes at two grades in early, middle, and late French immersion. These classes were administered the same verb tense tests: an oral elicited imitation test and written rational cloze test. Analysis…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cloze Procedure, College Students, Data Analysis