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Corpus-based analysis of the usage pattern of homonymys among malaysian ESL learners

Learners usually deal with words that have multiple meanings, and similar pronunciation and spelling when they acquire English vocabulary. These words are homonyms that often confuse learners due to their ambiguous nature, similarity in orthography and pronunciation. Most learners faced difficulties...

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Main Author: Law, Hui Qin
Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
Published: 2022
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L Education (General)
PE English
PR English literature
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spelling my-utar-eprints.47982022-12-23T12:36:34Z Corpus-based analysis of the usage pattern of homonymys among malaysian ESL learners Law, Hui Qin L Education (General) PE English PR English literature Learners usually deal with words that have multiple meanings, and similar pronunciation and spelling when they acquire English vocabulary. These words are homonyms that often confuse learners due to their ambiguous nature, similarity in orthography and pronunciation. Most learners faced difficulties distinguishing several types of homonyms and knowing the usage of homonyms in different contexts. This study analyses the types and usage patterns of the homonyms used by Malaysian undergraduates in their essay writing. The study adopted a corpus-based method to conduct the research, and a total of 145 essays were collected and digitised to generate a learner corpus. In the learner corpus, there are 8098 homonyms found and classified into homophones, homographs, lexical homonyms, and lexico-grammatical homonyms. The usage patterns of homonyms are examined through common usage, misuse pattern, and collocational pattern based on different homonym categories. The result showed that the word classes of most homonyms determined the word sense used in a particular context, except for lexical homonyms. Apart from grammatical class, context also played a significant role in disambiguating multiple senses of homonyms. Based on the usage patterns, learners experienced biases, confusion, L1 interference, and misunderstand senses of homonyms while building sentences. The corpus highlighted grammatical class, meanings, and context are the key elements used to address these issues. This paper concluded that corpus could be a practical tool to learn several homonym categories and their usage in different contexts. 2022-05 Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4798/1/fyp_EL_2022_LHQ.pdf Law, Hui Qin (2022) Corpus-based analysis of the usage pattern of homonymys among malaysian ESL learners. Final Year Project, UTAR. http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4798/
institution Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
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content_provider Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
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topic L Education (General)
PE English
PR English literature
spellingShingle L Education (General)
PE English
PR English literature
Law, Hui Qin
Corpus-based analysis of the usage pattern of homonymys among malaysian ESL learners
description Learners usually deal with words that have multiple meanings, and similar pronunciation and spelling when they acquire English vocabulary. These words are homonyms that often confuse learners due to their ambiguous nature, similarity in orthography and pronunciation. Most learners faced difficulties distinguishing several types of homonyms and knowing the usage of homonyms in different contexts. This study analyses the types and usage patterns of the homonyms used by Malaysian undergraduates in their essay writing. The study adopted a corpus-based method to conduct the research, and a total of 145 essays were collected and digitised to generate a learner corpus. In the learner corpus, there are 8098 homonyms found and classified into homophones, homographs, lexical homonyms, and lexico-grammatical homonyms. The usage patterns of homonyms are examined through common usage, misuse pattern, and collocational pattern based on different homonym categories. The result showed that the word classes of most homonyms determined the word sense used in a particular context, except for lexical homonyms. Apart from grammatical class, context also played a significant role in disambiguating multiple senses of homonyms. Based on the usage patterns, learners experienced biases, confusion, L1 interference, and misunderstand senses of homonyms while building sentences. The corpus highlighted grammatical class, meanings, and context are the key elements used to address these issues. This paper concluded that corpus could be a practical tool to learn several homonym categories and their usage in different contexts.
format Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
author Law, Hui Qin
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author_sort Law, Hui Qin
title Corpus-based analysis of the usage pattern of homonymys among malaysian ESL learners
title_short Corpus-based analysis of the usage pattern of homonymys among malaysian ESL learners
title_full Corpus-based analysis of the usage pattern of homonymys among malaysian ESL learners
title_fullStr Corpus-based analysis of the usage pattern of homonymys among malaysian ESL learners
title_full_unstemmed Corpus-based analysis of the usage pattern of homonymys among malaysian ESL learners
title_sort corpus-based analysis of the usage pattern of homonymys among malaysian esl learners
publishDate 2022
url http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4798/1/fyp_EL_2022_LHQ.pdf
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