Tense and Aspect in Multilingual Romance Language Education

This book reconciles research on tense and aspect in Romance languages with the study of multilingualism and language education. This is achieved through a number of theoretical and empirical studies on French, Spanish, Catalan, and Italian as target languages. The focus is on learners’ and teachers’ perspectives in diverse educational contexts, from foreign language classrooms to language instruction in bilingual regions. With data collection carried out in Europe, America and Asia, the learners’ linguistic backgrounds contain a variety of Germanic, Romance and other languages. In addition, the role of sociolinguistic variation of forms in teaching and learning tense and aspect is explored.