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Children’s Acquisition of Past Tense Verbs
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Abstract
Language acquisition is a major process for children as they grow up. They start to learn the grammar, the use of sounds, and the words, and try to use language to express themselves. This study, will discuss the past theories on language acquisition of past tense verbs, and combine these theories with the present suggestions on how to improve teaching methods and children’s learning. Past tense verbs contain a variety of changes in word forms, generally including regular changes and irregular changes. Regular changes are the addition of the -ed suffix after the original form of words, while irregular changes are diverse and can be divided into different types. Errors will keep occurring as kids learn these types of grammatical rules. Nonetheless, children will progressively acquire the terms and grammar over time. Thus, it will be exceptionally helpful for students to acquire and generalize the acquisition of past tense verbs to increase their learning efficiency.
Keywords
Language acquisition, past tense verb, overgeneralization error, partial regularity
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Xu,X. (2024). Children’s Acquisition of Past Tense Verbs. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,37,106-110.
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