The Use of English Present Perfect by Malaysian Chinese ESL Learners

Title: The Use of English Present Perfect by Malaysian Chinese ESL Learners
Creator: Yin, Erica Kwan Lee; Nimehchisalem, Vahid; Moskovsky, Christo
Relation: Journal of Asia TEFL Vol. 19, Issue 1, p. 282-290
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.18823/asiatefl.2022.19.1.20.282
Publisher: Asia T E F L,Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2022
Description: The English present perfect is widely acknowledged to be one of the most challenging grammatical constructions for learners to attain in acquiring English as a second or foreign language (Wijaya & Hidarto, 2018). The present perfect contains two separate and autonomous grammatical categories of the verb, tense and aspect, each of which can operate independently of the other. The present perfect is treated as a combination of the two, making it a complex tense especially for ESL learners to use correctly. In addition, the acquisition of the present perfect is also developed at a later stage in L1 and L2 acquisition (Van Herk, 2008). Hence, the acquisition of the present perfect is indeed a cognitively complex process.
Subject: language; english second language (ESL); English; grammar
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1486099
Identifier: uon:51775
Identifier: ISSN:1738-3102
Language: eng

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