FURTHER NOTES FOR A CONTRASTIVE AND DIDACTIC APPROACH TO THE USE OF THE PRESENT PERFECT TENSE VS. THE PAST TENSE

dc.creator	Constantin MANEA
dc.date	2008-09-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:10:08Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:10:08Z
dc.identifier	1583-2236
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/e6a70ccbc23440c3b20e3f8dd7c6dafc
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/13392
dc.description	The Present Perfect Tense is a notable instance of the many quirks, “pitfalls” and inherent intricacies that can make the acquisition of English grammar quite a challenge, even with advanced students. Its dissimilarity from its possible counterparts in most European languages (including Romanian) is patent. The present contribution continues the author’s preoccupation with such “False Friends” that teaching is called upon to overcome (at least, to an acceptable degree). Since the Present Perfect Tense closely incorporates tense and aspect information, while also being highly context-, and attitude-dependent, it requires conscious communicative adjustment on the part of the non-native speaker, including the students of EFL. The grammatical category of Aspect often emerges as a linguistic “trap” for foreign learners of English, since, in Romanian, it is rendered unsystematically, mainly through specialized words, phrases, or derivational morphemes, being, in most cases, rather lexicalized (and comparatively syntax-dependent); in English aspect is a grammatical category mainly – and essentially – subordinated to the category of tense, and is usually taught as such. In this presentation, very much as in the previous one dealing with the Present Perfect and Past Tense, we considered that the most serious grammatical “trap” with respect to the use and definition of the two tenses under consideration is laid by the notion of perfectivity. The contribution presents the main tenses involved in the broader picture of the English tenses and verbal structures related, in a way or other, to the past – viz. the Past Tense Simple, the Past Tense Progressive, the Present Perfect Simple Tense, and the Present Perfect Progressive Tense –, as well as the main differences (in meaning, grammatical collocation and communicative implications) between the Present Perfect Tense and the Past Tense. The author’s remarks could hopefully contribute to facilitate teacher handling of the tense system of English. The Present Perfect Tense can be taught, we hope, in a more suitable manner if adequate activities are used communicatively in the EFL classes.
dc.language	French
dc.language	English
dc.language	Russian
dc.language	German
dc.publisher	University of Pitesti
dc.relation	http://www.upit.ro/index.php?i=2263
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1583-2236
dc.source	Studii si Cercetari Filologice. Seria Limbi Straine Aplicate, Vol 7, Iss 2008, Pp 63-74 (2008)
dc.subject	Present Perfect
dc.subject	Past Tense
dc.subject	teaching
dc.subject	pitfalls
dc.subject	communicative
dc.subject	Language and Literature
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Languages and Literatures
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	Philology. Linguistics
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dc.subject	LC8-6691
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Linguistics
dc.subject	DOAJ:Languages and Literatures
dc.subject	Language and Literature
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dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	Philology. Linguistics
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dc.subject	Language and Literature
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dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject	P1-1091
dc.subject	Language and Literature
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dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	FURTHER NOTES FOR A CONTRASTIVE AND DIDACTIC APPROACH TO THE USE OF THE PRESENT PERFECT TENSE VS. THE PAST TENSE
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