Essays about: "on preposition"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words on preposition.
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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. Structural and Functional Analysis of Lexical Bundles in Music Research Articles : A Corpus-Based Approach
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärandeAbstract : Applied linguistics has lately been seen in studies of formulaicity of language operating through recurrent word combinations. The present study deals with one type of word combinations, namely lexical bundles (LBs), which are defined as a sequence of three or more words that frequently co-occur in a particular register (Biber et al., 1999). READ MORE
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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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