LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 8 August 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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Tense and Aspect: A Pedagogical Linguistic Study

Shiny. K. P., M.A., M.Phil., PGCTE, PGDTE

Overview of the Study

The present study is a dissertation accepted for the M.Phil. degree at Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamilnadu.

This study, Tense and Aspect: A Pedagogical Linguistic Study was undertaken with a view to teaching tense and aspect more clearly to the learners at degree level as tense and aspect are basic to the use of English. The inspiration to take up this study has emerged from the researcher‘s personal teaching experience as she found it difficult to teach the students traditional rules of tense and aspect.

The study has attempted to enhance our knowledge of tense and aspect in English.

Details of different tenses and aspects have been presented in chapters II and III. These are presented from different view points. The work of Quirk et al, Huddleston and Pullum, Zandvoort, Leech and Svartvik, Halliday, Comire and Prakasam give us a very comprehensive picture of the English verbal group from the two crucial angles of =time‘ and the =state‘ of process.

The teaching of three specific variant view points has added to our knowledge of students needs. Students need precise picture of a given grammatical category and a clear presentation of the same. Once the basics are comprehended clearly, it will be easier for the teacher to take the students to more difficult and complex categories. The morphological, semantic and discourse aspects of a category can make the students grasp the ideas analytically and later synthesize them for their cognition and storage.

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Shiny Kochappilly, M.A., M.Phil., PGCTE, PGDTE
Lecturer in the Department of English
JMJ College for Women
Morrispet, P.O.
Tenali-522202
Guntur District
Andhra Pradesh
India
shinykochappilly@gmail.com
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