Alexandra Vraciu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alexandra Vraciu is involved.
Articles
2024 The development of CAF in the oral production of French L1 young learners of EFL: A longitudinal study Language, Interaction and Acquisition 15:2, pp. 215–242 | Article
Complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) have become established measures of L2 production, being used extensively to gauge learning outcomes in teen and adult learners. Nonetheless, very few studies have looked into longitudinal development and even less so with young learners. The present study… read more
2015 Chapter 10. The simple present and the expression of temporality in L1 English and L2 English oral narratives: When form meets discourse The Acquisition of the Present, Ayoun, Dalila (ed.), pp. 289–334 | Article
The simple/progressive aspectual contrast is fundamental in present-based narratives in English: the simple present encodes temporally sequenced events whereas the progressive creates a close-up effect and introduces a perspective “from within”, often associated with the subjective viewpoint of the… read more
2013 Exploring the upper limits of the Aspect Hypothesis: Tense-aspect morphology in the advanced English L2 variety Language, Interaction and Acquisition 4:2, pp. 256–290 | Article
This paper explores coalitions between tense-aspect morphology and the aspectual class of predicates in second language acquisition (the Aspect Hypothesis) on the basis of 36 oral narratives elicited with a picture book from French L1 adult learners of English. The observed distributional patterns… read more