期刊名称：The Reading Matrix: an international online journal
印刷版ISSN：1533-242X
出版年度：2007
卷号：7
期号：01
出版社：Reading Matrix, Inc.
摘要：The study of SLA began around the beginning of the 70s with the emergence
of both theoretical and empirical studies. Undoubtedly, the acquisition of
tense/aspect, besides other topics, has attracted much interest from .
researchers. This study investigated the use of telic and atelic verb forms in the
oral production of Turkish speakers of English (non-native speakers or NNSs)
and native speakers of English (NSs). To elicit how the foreground and
background of narrative formed; which tense/aspect is preferred in the
foreground and background, each participant produced one monologue whose
topic was retelling a film. The results showed that the discourse of non-native
speakers exhibit target-like qualities not only in terms of usage of verbs
according to their inherent semantic aspect of verbs only but also in terms of
distribution of verb types in the foreground and background of discourse.
