Mapping tense form and meaning for L2 learning – From theory to practice

English tense presents second/foreign language learners with considerable cognitive challenges and, it will be argued, grammars and textbooks are generally inadequate sources of knowledge of the tense system as system. A modified version of Reichenbach's (1947. Elements of Symbolic Logic . New York: Macmillan) tense model is then presented. The original model has been criticized for its inability to deal with temporal relationships in natural...