CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF VERB ASPECT IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK: CHALLENGES FOR UZBEK LEARNERS OF ENGLISH

This article investigates the contrastive analysis of verb aspect in English and Uzbek, focusing on the challenges faced by Uzbek learners of English. English and Uzbek belong to different language families—Germanic and Turkic, respectively—leading to fundamental differences in their grammatical structures. The English aspectual system (progressive, perfect, perfect progressive, simple) contrasts with the Uzbek system, which primarily uses affixes, auxiliary verbs, and adverbs to express aspectual meaning. These differences result in various learning difficulties, including misinterpretation of tense-aspect forms, overgeneralization, and lack of correspondence between forms. The article provides a comparative analysis, examples, and pedagogical implications for teaching English aspect to Uzbek learners.