Essays about: "english prepositions"
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6. English Errors in Swedish Upper Secondary School : A study of grammatical errors and errors as a result of transfer, produced by Swedish Upper secondary students
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : This is a study that employs error analysis to investigate written production in English, by Swedish upper secondary learners of English, in order to determine which linguistic errors most commonly occur amongst this group, and to compare the results between first-year students and third-year students for a possible indication of which error types continue to occur throughout upper secondary school. The error categories included in this study are grammatical errors and errors as a result of transfer. READ MORE
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7. Problematic Prepositions for Swedish Students of English
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : This study investigates prepositional errors that Swedish 16-year-old students of English produce. The study attempts to understand why English L2 students in Sweden struggle with prepositions by looking at research within the SLA field regarding transfer, interlanguage transfer, implicit and explicit learning. READ MORE
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8. From the midst of darkness to a nugget of hope : Post-nominal of-phrases in translation
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to analyze how post-nominal of-phrases are translated from English to Swedish in a non-fiction text about the musician Dave Grohl and his band Foo Fighters. The analysis is both quantitative and qualitative. READ MORE
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9. Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Preposition Acquisition in an ESL Context with Arabic Learners
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierAbstract : Teaching prepositions in the context of English as a foreign language (ESL) can be particularly challenging. The present research explored the ability of Arabic-speaking students to understand and use prepositions and examined the efficacy of using cognitive linguistics to train them on the for and to prepositions. READ MORE
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10. An Outline of the Semantic Network of the Preposition Up in American English : A Corpus Study
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierAbstract : In this study an outline is presented of the semantic network of the preposition up in American English in sentences extracted from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), which was done to determine what the most common uses and meanings of the preposition are, as well as to determine if most of its possible meanings are concrete or abstract. The results show that there is a salient use and also prototypical meaning of up, and that these are major factors that impact the semantic network of the preposition. READ MORE