Stockholm university

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:

Lukas Eibensteiner.

Keynote speaker Lukas Eibensteiner. Photo: Private.

 

Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé.

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