ACHIZIȚIA OPOZIȚIEI ASPECTUALE LA CURSANȚII MULTILINGVI: UN STUDIU DE CAZ ASUPRA ALTERNANȚEI PERFECT COMPUS – IMPERFECT PRIN PRISMA MITULUI DRACULA
AQUISITION OF THE ASPECTUAL DISTINCTION BY MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS: A CASE STUDY ON THE PERFECT-IMPERFECT ALTERNATION THROUGH THE LENS OF THE DRACULA MYTH

Summary/Abstract: This study explores the acquisition of the past tense contrast (Perfect Compus vs. Imperfect) in Romanian as a Foreign Language (RFL), addressing the challenges non-native speakers face in mastering Romance aspectual morphology. Grounded in the Aspect Hypothesis and the Discourse Hypothesis, we investigate how a culturally anchored narrative—the Dracula myth—facilitates the conceptualization of the imperfective aspect and its discourse grounding function. A qualitative case study was conducted with a diverse group of 10 international students (Slavic, Semitic, and Turkic L1 backgrounds). The pedagogical intervention utilized film sequences (Coppola, 1992) and academic historical texts to contrastively map "myth/background" (Imperfect) and "history/event" (Perfect Compus). Preliminary findings suggest that cultural anchoring significantly reduces cognitive load, allows learners to overcome the morphological bottleneck, and improves pragmatic accuracy, especially for learners whose native languages lack equivalent tense-aspect categories.

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