2021 Volume 180 Pages 1-16
The present study investigates the acquisition of the -te iru and -te ita in their progressive and resultative meanings among learners of Japanese who are native speakers of Chinese. Using the Simple Performance-Oriented Test （SPOT）, 180 students majoring in Japanese at Chinese universities were separated into lower, middle, and upper groups. After administering multiple choice tasks, a high percentage of correct answers was confirmed regarding progressive meaning from the lower group. Moreover, the accuracy rate of responses involving -te iru was significantly higher than for -te ita. Conversely, concerning resultative meaning, regardless of proficiency level, the percentage of correct answers was low, confirming how difficult this aspect was for students to learn. It was observed that there was a difference in the accuracy rate regarding resultative meaning depending on whether the corresponding verb in the learnerʼs first language （L1） could co-occur with an aspect marker that indicates duration. The current study clarifies the acquisition process of the -te iru and -te ita forms among native speakers of Chinese who are learning Japanese and how whether an aspect marker cooccurs in the mother tongue is significant when explaining the degree of difficulty in learning about resultative meaning as indicated through -te iru and -te ita.
