As the sample of this study contains only 95 valid questions from two proficiency groups, the results should be interpreted with caution. The findings might not be generalizable to all EFL learners in Taiwan. Further research with more subjects and more proficiency levels is required before a more solid conclusion can be made. In addition, grammaticality judgment might not be the best approach to gather data for analysis since there is always the danger of guessing.
Yet, it was chosen because it was controlled to the target structures and contrastive comparisons were able to be conducted between groups and between structures. Aspect is intriguing and sometimes hard to render grammaticality judgments when there is a single sentence. In the questionnaire, the background context was provided as much as possible, but probably was still not enough. Other experimental tasks, such as elicited translation or discourse production can be conducted to investigate how learners display the agreement between lexical aspect and grammatical aspects. Work from different perspectives will help us further understand the English aspect acquisition in Taiwan EFL learners.
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