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Journal

Research in Language

2018 | 16 | 1 |

Article title

The Past Perfect in Corpora and EFL/ESL Materials

Authors

Vandenhoek, Tim

Content

Full texts:
rela-2018-0005.pdf

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Languages of publication

Abstracts

EN
Corpora provide teachers and materials developers with the ability to ensure that the instructions they use in class and in teaching materials correctly reflect natural use. This paper examines the ways in which grammar reference books and two types of EFL/ESL materials present the past perfect aspect and whether they do so accurately. It will be argued that there are several issues concerning how these books present the grammar point. Many of the books surveyed provide incomplete explanations of when and how the form is used and several contain usage guidelines that are not supported by available corpus data. The paper ends with several recommendations to improve how the form is presented to teachers and learners.

Keywords

EN
corpus   ESL   EFL   materials   past   perfect  

Publisher

Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Journal

Research in Language

Year

2018

Volume

16

Issue

1

Physical description

Dates

published
2018-06-07

Contributors

author
Vandenhoek, Tim
other
Asia University
other
timv@asia-u.ac.jp

References

Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11089/26532
DOI
10.2478/rela-2018-0005

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.hdl_11089_26532
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