Where have the prepositions gone? A study of English prepositional verbs and input enhancement in instructed SLA  

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Kao, Rong-Rong

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching vol. 39 no. 3 (2001), page 195-216.
Fulltext: 39_03_Kao.pdf (114.2KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/IRA/39 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The present study examines the acquisition of English prepositional verbs by Japanese EFL learners. 99 university students were given a task involving grammaticality judgement and correction of individual sentences, each with a prepositional verb. The results show: (I) the null-preposition construction does occur in SIA; (2) subjects dominantly choose the marked stranding option in the task and (3) subjects employ more piping in relative clauses than in wh-questions. Three hypotheses are proposed to explain the results. First, communicational redundant prepositions are likely to be omitted. Second, the frequency of postposed prepositions in English propels L2 learners to antipiping. Third, reanalysis of prepositional verbs into phrasal verbs leads L2 learners to favor stranding. This reanalysis also reflects how these verbs are taught in EFL classrooms. Implications of these findings for SIA related to input enhancement and the effects on L2 performance are discussed.

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