{"product_id":"the-acquisition-of-the-future-tense-von-sandra-dorschner","title":"The acquisition of the future tense","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 2,0, http:\/\/www.uni-jena.de\/ (Institut für Anglistik\/Amerikanistik), course: Syntactic Development, language: English, abstract: It is the goal of this paper to examine the acquisition of the future tense in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echildren¿s speech. After a two word utterance stage they develop more and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emore their speaking skills and start to talk about events and activities in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efuture, apart from saying things about the present. To give a detailed account\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the acquisition of the future, this study includes several steps of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexamination. It will not only try to answer to the questions, when children first\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003euse future expressions and how their use develops in time. But it also includes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ean analysis of the occurrence of future tense in specific constructions, such as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esimple sentences, questions etc. It is also necessary to look at verbs as well as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esubjects which occur with expressions of future tense. A last part of the study\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis concerned with common errors children produce when speaking about the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efuture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere exist several ways to express the future in adult grammar. The most\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecommon forms, which are also the focus of this analysis, are the simple future\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexpressed by will and the going to-future. Other possibilities of expressing the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efuture, e.g. using simple present tense or a present progressive form of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003everb, will be neglected in this paper, as they are too complex in their concepts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor children. They mainly depend on adverbials of time to denote the future\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand therefore would require a different focus of analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe simple future is formed with the modal auxiliary will, followed by the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einfinitive of a verb (e.g. Greenbaum 1991: 54), as in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(a) I will write the exam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe will-future is used to convey two different concepts: first, it is used for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexpressing general predictions and assumptions of what is going to happen in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe future and second, it marks spontaneous decisions, offers and promises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(cf. Fleischhack 2001: 70).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second form of expressing future tense is the combination of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einfinitive of a verb with a form of be going to, such as in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(b) I am going to work in the garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640172276\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640172276","offer_id":39424899973213,"sku":"9783640172276","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/27045a55-8fd7-42bd-9d57-5b016ae4a311.jpg?v=1777612234","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-acquisition-of-the-future-tense-von-sandra-dorschner","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}