Essays about: "Prepositions usage"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Prepositions usage.

  1. 1. An Errors Analysis of Grammatical Errors in The Written Productions of Swedish Students in a Vocational High School

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / / Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap

    Author : Maryam Nezamabadi; [2023-02-01]
    Keywords : Error analysis; Verb errors; Common grammatical errors; English written productions; Grammar teaching; Second language learning; Errors based on word class categories;

    Abstract : As an approach to spotting and analyzing students' errors, error analysis provides information that gives us a better understanding of students' knowledge of second language grammar, so we can offer them more effective teaching. This study is an error analysis that investigates the most common grammatical errors focusing on verbs, prepositions, articles, and pronouns in English writings produced by first-year high-school students at a vocational school in southern Sweden. READ MORE

  3. 2. 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)

    Author : Oscar Söderman; [2022]
    Keywords : ;

    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

  4. 3. Slips or errors? : A study of the grammatical mistakes in Swedish pupils' written production of English

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Elina Jonsson; [2015]
    Keywords : Second language acquisition SLA ; grammar; mistakes; slips; errors; interlingual transfer; intralingual transfer; negative transfer; L1; L2; Contrastive Analysis; Error Analysis;

    Abstract : Grammar is an important aspect of language learning and is thus of concern in language teaching as well. This study sets out to investigate the kinds of grammatical mistakes Swedish secondary school pupils make in their written production of English and the possible causes behind these different mistakes. READ MORE

  5. 4. 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 utbildningsstudier

    Author : Su Yin Khor; [2013]
    Keywords : morpheme acquisition order; natural order hypothesis; second language acquisition; Swedish learners; first language influence and transfer; corpus; morphological congruency;

    Abstract : 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

  6. 5. Space and time in Mmen

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Signe Nilsson; [2013]
    Keywords : semantics; temporal relations; prepositions; spatial relations; bantu languages; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : 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