Corpus-based study of L3 acquisition on Spanish past tense: evidence from learners’ oral production

Hui-Chuan Lu; An Chung Cheng; Shen Yun Hung

doi:10.4995/rlyla.2019.10744

Authors

Hui-Chuan Lu National Cheng Kung University
An Chung Cheng University of Toledo
Shen Yun Hung National Cheng Kung University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4995/rlyla.2019.10744

Keywords:

tense, aspect, oral production, corpus, Spanish acquisition

Abstract

This paper focuses on a corpus-based study on the acquisition of L3 Spanish past tense in oral production through a learners’ corpus. The main findings were: (1) Chinese-speaking learners in Taiwan demonstrated more accurate uses of the Spanish preterit than the imperfect in oral productions, same as the findings in their written productions and those in Englishnative speakers of Spanish; (2) These learners used telic verbs more correctly than those of activity and state in preterit form in both oral and written productions; (3) The developmental pattern of the Spanish past tense in the oral production of Chinesespeakinglearners was similar to that of English-speaking learners of Spanish.

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