Multilingual perspectives on teaching and learning tense and aspect in Romance languages
Seminar
Date: Thursday 16 February 2023
Time: 08.45 – 17.00
Location: Library of the Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies, Södra huset, hus B, plan 5
A well-known challenge for learners and teachers of French, Italian and Spanish is tense and aspect morphology. At the symposium, international research is presented on both the learning and teaching of these grammatical elements in the Romance languages.
The symposium aims at reconciling research on tense and aspect with language education. The challenges related to the teaching and learning of the complex area of tense and aspect are discussed in two strands.
Within the first strand, SLA research regarding tense and aspect applying multilingual perspectives is presented. The second strand focuses on teaching tense and aspect in Romance languages.
The symposium is arranged in collaboration between the Department of Teaching and Learning and the Department of Romance Studies and Classics.
The symposium is financed by RomLing (Romance Linguistics)
Organizing committee:
- Camilla Bardel, Stockholm University
- Anna Gudmundson, Stockholm University
- Anna Bergström, Stockholm University
- Francesco Vallerossa, Stockholm University
Keynote speaker Lukas Eibensteiner. Photo: Private.
Keynote speaker Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé. Photo: Private.
Program
| 8:45-9:00 | Symposium opening | |
| Speaker | Title of the contribution | |
| 9:00-9:45 | Keynote 1: Lukas Eibensteiner, Universität Jena | L3 acquisition of aspectual meaning: state-of-the-art and future directions |
| 10:00-10:30 | Francesco Vallerossa, Stockholms universitet | L3 transfer across typologically similar languages: the case of Romance perfective past tenses |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Carmen Kleinherenbrink, Universiteit Leiden | A rationale for comparing the variability of Dutch and Spanish past tenses assessed by learners and instructors |
| 11:30-12:00 | Maria Kihlstedt, Université de Paris-Nanterre (via link) | The L3 acquisition of French and the impact of a Romance L1 (Italian) and two Germanic L2s (English and Swedish): a case study |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Keynote 2: Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé, Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya | Language teaching, ISLA, and SLA: toward an SLA-informed pedagogy of L2 tense-aspect |
| 15:00:15:30 |
Rafael Salaberry, Rice University (via link) |
What constitutes acquisition of viewpoint aspect? |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Zuzana Toth, Universität Basel | Tense-aspect marking and overall text quality. What are the teaching implications of this relationship? |
| 16:30-17:00 | Kevin McManus, The Pennsylvania State University | Using instruction to address the negative effects of crosslinguistic influence in adult L2 learning |
Last updated: January 31, 2023
Source: Romance Linguistics - RomLing