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Incidental Development of Tense-Aspect in EFL Through an Interactive Written Discourse: Focusing on Aspectual Distinctions

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This study examined English texts compiled from the outcome of international interactive written discourse during a semester, to explore the evidence of L2 incidental development of the tense-aspect system, focusing on the usage of the present-perfect. The clauses containing the target tense-aspect constructions were extracted by means of Python’s NLTK 3.0. Each present-perfect construction was manually coded for the lexical aspects/situation types, i.e. states, activities, accomplishments, and achievements of the main verb in order to investigate different patterns of incidental development by the types. The quantified differences between the L1 and L2 texts were tested by calculating the Chi-square values. The L2 changes in the use of present-perfect showed some stages that hint at incidental development. A complementary distribution between the past and present-perfect was suggested not only in the L2 text but also in the L1 text. The difference between the L1 and L2 uses of the state and achievement verbs seemed to be due to the circumstance rather than the influence of the lexical aspects. Future research on incidental development based on a longer interaction period was invited.

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This study examined English texts compiled from the outcome of international interactive written discourse during a semester, to explore the evidence of L2 incidental development of the tense-aspect system, focusing on the usage of the present-perfect. The clauses containing the target tense-aspect constructions were extracted by means of Python’s NLTK 3.0. Each present-perfect construction was manually coded for the lexical aspects/situation types, i.e. states, activities, accomplishments, and achievements of the main verb in order to investigate different patterns of incidental development by the types. The quantified differences between the L1 and L2 texts were tested by calculating the Chi-square values. The L2 changes in the use of present-perfect showed some stages that hint at incidental development. A complementary distribution between the past and present-perfect was suggested not only in the L2 text but also in the L1 text. The difference between the L1 and L2 uses of the state and achievement verbs seemed to be due to the circumstance rather than the influence of the lexical aspects. Future research on incidental development based on a longer interaction period was invited.

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