English Pedagogical Grammar: Teaching Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous by Deductive and Inductive Approaches

On the Present Perfect Puzzle

Investigating the Effect of Inductive and Deductive Grammar Instruction and Input Enhancement on Iranian EFL Learners’ Grammar Achievement

The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of deductive instruction of grammar with input enhancement and without using input enhancement. It also explored the effectiveness of inductive instruction of grammar with input enhancement and without input enhancement among Iranian EFL learners. The participants were female intermediate-level students who were studying English a...

Semantic Features of Verbs and Types of Present Perfect in English

English present perfect is usually divided into several types; however, analysis of concrete examples shows that such classifications into types depend on the context and on some semantic features of verbs. This paper discusses the interaction between such features and present perfect with the examples from the contemporary British novel (Lodge 1989). The discussed examples point to the followi...

A puzzle about until and the Present Perfect

The anomaly is quite puzzling in the context of the quite standard assumptions that (a) perfect eventualities denote result states (McCoard 1978, Dowty 1979, Vlach 1983, Kamp and Reyle 1993), and (b) UNTIL is a stative modifier. Both assumptions would predict unobstructed compatibility between UNTIL phrases and the perfect. The observed incompatibility becomes even more intriguing when we see t...

German children's productivity with tense morphology: the Perfekt (present perfect).

Two nonce-word studies examined German-speaking children's productivity with the Perfekt (present perfect) from 2;6 to 3;6. The German Perfekt consists of the past participle of the main verb and an inflected form of an auxiliary (either haben 'have' or sein 'be'). In Study 1, nonce verbs were either introduced in the infinitival form, and children (seventy-two children, aged 2;6 to 3;6) were t...