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1、17EnglishandChineseTime:GrammaticalAspectsResearchPaper:TSL5208-PedagogicalGrammarDmitriPrivenFall2010MichaelJ.RyanThisresearchpaperwilllookintothedifficultiesofestablishingtheperiodduringwhichanactivityoccursintheEnglishlanguagegrammaticalsystemforanativespeakerofChinese.Firstly,
2、anappreciationoftheacquisitionofafirstlanguage(L1)andlearningofasecondlanguagewillbebrieflyoffered.Thentoensurethereaderisproperlyoriented,somenecessarydefinitionsandanoverviewofthegrammaticaldifferencesbetweenEnglishandChinese(Mandarin)forestablishingtime,primarilyatasentenceleve
3、l,willbevital.Nextthepreferredmethodologicaltool,a“conjugationchart”ofthepresent,pastandfuturesimpletensesinEnglishandChinesehasbeendevelopedandwillbepresented.Ahighlyspeculativeoverviewoftheculturalrootandthedifferencesinthemeasurementoftimeasthecausalfactorsinthemassivevariation
4、willbebrieflyoutlined.Theconjugationchartisoriginalandisnotthepatterncurrentlyinuse,andthoughitmaynotbetheultimatetoolinlanguagelearning,itappearstohavenoinherentnegativeimpact.Finally,thispreferredmethodwillbedefendedonthebasisofprovidingthemeanstoovercometheinherentdifficultiesi
5、nEnglishverbtensethroughaninitialgrammar-basedapproachandtheinitiationoflongertermcontextualization.17ScottThornburyinHowtoTeachGrammarhaswritten:“Thelanguageofearlychildhoodislikethis:itisessentiallyindividualwordsstrungtogether,butbecauseitiscenteredinthehere-and-now,itisgeneral
6、lynotdifficulttointerpret….(p.3)”.Thisassessmentoftheprimacyofthepresenttensewouldappeartobeself-evident.Ourearliestforaysintoouracquiredlanguageareinthepresenttense,evenwhentheverbisnotvocalized.Normally,aNNSofEnglishwouldbeintroducedtothepresenttense,asgroundingintheuseofverbs,p
7、riortobeingexposedtootheraspectsoftimeinEnglish.AzarandHageninUnderstandingandUsingEnglishGrammar(2009),beginthegrammartopicsinthetextwiththesimplepresenttense.LeoJonesinWelcome:EnglishfortheTravelandTourismIndustry(1998)hashisfirstthematicexerciseforthereaderpresentedinthesimplep
8、resenttense.H.DouglasBrowninTeach
