The Development of the Expression of Temporality in the Written English Narratives of Monolingual American and Bilingual Mexican Pupils.

McClure, Erica; Platt, Elizabeth

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Publication Date: 1988

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The Development of the Expression of Temporality in the Written English Narratives of Monolingual American and Bilingual Mexican Pupils.

McClure, Erica; Platt, Elizabeth

World Englishes, v7 n2 p197-210 Sum 1988

Compares written expression of temporal relationships by American and Mexican children fourth- and ninth-grade children (N=80) receiving long-term second language instruction to that of native speaker children of the same grade level. Nonnative speakers use the same general patterns of syntactic, lexical, and discursive devices for expressing temporality as do native speakers. (Author/LMO)

Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 4, Grade 9, Mexicans, Native Speakers, Pragmatics, Spanish Speaking, Syntax, Tenses (Grammar), Time Perspective, Writing Skills, Written Language

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Language: English

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