Essays about: "preposition usage"
Found 4 essays containing the words preposition usage.
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1. What Goes Where? : Swedish learners of English and the issue of English prepositions
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)Abstract : This paper examines 37 Swedish EFL students’ usage and knowledge of the English prepositions to, in, at, of and for by the use of a fill-in-the-gaps questionnaire. The students studied the course English 5 at a Swedish high school. READ MORE
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2. Preposition and article usage in learner English : An investigation of negative transfer
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkulturAbstract : 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
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3. A Corpus Based Study in Morpheme Acquisition Order of Young Learners of English : A comparison of Swedish students in grade 6 and grade 7
University essay from Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudierAbstract : This study investigated the morpheme acquisition order of Swedish students in grades 6 and 7, utilizing corpus texts drawn from the Uppsala Learner English Corpus (ULEC). It is an extension of Khor (2012) that focused on students in grades 9 and 12. READ MORE
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4. Space and time in Mmen
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : This thesis provides an analysis of the linguistic expression of spatial and temporal relations in Mmen, a Niger-Congo language spoken in Bafumen, in the North West Region of Cameroon. Linguistic means of expressing spatial relations are surveyed in usage and in grammatical structure, and categorized according to the patterns found. READ MORE