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- Title: An Application of Temporal Frame in Translating Chinese News Into English (Report)
- Author : Translation & Interpreting
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 238 KB
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Introduction English tense and aspect has been recognized as posing great difficulties for learners, particularly those whose L1 has no tense and aspect morphological inflections (Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, 1998; Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig & Bergstrom, 1996; Coppieters, 1987; Guiora, 1983; Hinkel, 1992, 1997, 2004). As to native Chinese learners, a great deal of research has been devoted to identify the causes of errors in their uses of tense and aspect and help them improve (J. Cai, 2004; L. N. Cai, 2008; Chen, 2005; Hinkel, 1997; Li & Thompson, 1981; Yang & Huang, 2004; Zhang, 1995). Along with other difficulties arising from typological differences between the two languages, the authors point out that the native Chinese learners' misuses of English tense and aspect markers may result from their inability to distinguish between various contexts in which certain tenses and aspects are used. For example, Chen (2005) says that although Chinese learners are able to use tense and aspect correctly at the sentence level, they often make mistakes at the discourse level, and she suggests that this is due to their lack of understanding that "tense conventions at the discourse level override tense decisions at the sentence level". Similar suggestions have also been made by Hinkel (1997) that nonnative speakers (NNSs), including native Chinese speaking learners, need to learn tense and aspect within contextual temporal frames.