Essays about: "Portuguese learners of English"

Found 4 essays containing the words Portuguese learners of English.

  1. 1. The Effect of Transfer on Arab and Portuguese Learners' Use of the English Prepositions to and for.

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Linda Elkafri; [2018]
    Keywords : Transfer; Arabic and Portuguese;

    Abstract : The researcher has studied, in this paper, the effect of transfer on the Arabic and Portuguese learners’ using prepositions during their process of learning English as a second language. The prepositions that the study deals with are to and, for. READ MORE

  3. 2. Preposition and article usage in learner English : An investigation of negative transfer

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Håkan Almerfors; [2018]
    Keywords : Error Analysis; article usage; preposition usage; negative transfer; corpus study; Swedish learners of English; Portuguese learners of English; felanalys; artikelanvändning; prepositionsanvändning; negativ språköverföring; korpusundersökning; svenska elever som studerar engelska; portugisiska elever som studerarar engelska;

    Abstract : The ways in which someone’s first language (L1) influences his or her second language (L2) to create errors, that is negative transfer, is a topic that has received much attention in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Previous research has suggested that negative transfer is responsible for many errors. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Effect of Transfer on Arab and Portuguese Learners' Use of the English Prepositions to and for.

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Linda Elkafri; [2018]
    Keywords : Transfer; Arabic and Portuguese;

    Abstract : The researcher has studied, in this paper, the effect of transfer on the Arabic and Portuguese learners’ using prepositions during their process of learning English as a second language. The prepositions that the study deals with are to and, for. READ MORE

  5. 4. Present but not perfect : A study of problems Brazilian students encounter when learning the English present perfect tense

    University essay from Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten; Karlstads universitet; Avdelningen för språk

    Author : Fabiana Andrioli Sklar; [2011]
    Keywords : English present perfect; Brazilian Portuguese present perfect; EFL textbooks; EFL teaching; simple past; corpus; corpora; COMPARA; translation.;

    Abstract : Most Brazilian students learning English face difficulty when studying thepresent perfect. It is one of the most challenging aspects of the Englishlanguage for Portuguese speakers due to the similar form with a divergentsemantic value. READ MORE