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Malay ESL students’ difficulties in using English prepositions

The study attempts to undertake an error analysis of prepositions employed in the written work of Form 4 Malay ESL (English as a Second Language) students in Malaysia. The error analysis was undertaken using Richards’s (1974) framework of intralingual and interlingual errors and Bennett’s (1975) fra...

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Main Authors: Loi, Chek Kim, Songyut Akkakoson, Mehmet Cem Odacıoğlu, Norazah Mohd Suki, Henry Bating
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Language:English
Published: International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics 2017
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PE English language
Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/18462/1/Malay%20ESL%20students.pdf
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http://doi.org/10.18178/IJLLL.2017.3.3.121
http://doi.org/10.18178/IJLLL.2017.3.3.121
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spelling my.ums.eprints.184622018-01-19T12:33:41Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/18462/ Malay ESL students’ difficulties in using English prepositions Loi, Chek Kim Songyut Akkakoson Mehmet Cem Odacıoğlu Norazah Mohd Suki Henry Bating PE English language The study attempts to undertake an error analysis of prepositions employed in the written work of Form 4 Malay ESL (English as a Second Language) students in Malaysia. The error analysis was undertaken using Richards’s (1974) framework of intralingual and interlingual errors and Bennett’s (1975) framework in identifying prepositional concepts found in the sample. The study first identified common prepositional errors in the written texts of 150 student participants. It then measured the relative intensities of these errors and found out possible causes for the occurrences of these errors. In this study, one significant finding is that among the nine concepts of prepositions examined, the participant students tended to make the most number of errors in the use of prepositions of time and place. The present study has pedagogical implications in teaching English prepositions to Malay ESL students. International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics 2017-09 Article PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/18462/1/Malay%20ESL%20students.pdf Loi, Chek Kim and Songyut Akkakoson and Mehmet Cem Odacıoğlu and Norazah Mohd Suki and Henry Bating (2017) Malay ESL students’ difficulties in using English prepositions. International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, 3 (3). pp. 122-126. ISSN 2382-6282 http://doi.org/10.18178/IJLLL.2017.3.3.121 http://doi.org/10.18178/IJLLL.2017.3.3.121
institution Universiti Malaysia Sabah
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topic PE English language
spellingShingle PE English language
Loi, Chek Kim
Songyut Akkakoson
Mehmet Cem Odacıoğlu
Norazah Mohd Suki
Henry Bating
Malay ESL students’ difficulties in using English prepositions
description The study attempts to undertake an error analysis of prepositions employed in the written work of Form 4 Malay ESL (English as a Second Language) students in Malaysia. The error analysis was undertaken using Richards’s (1974) framework of intralingual and interlingual errors and Bennett’s (1975) framework in identifying prepositional concepts found in the sample. The study first identified common prepositional errors in the written texts of 150 student participants. It then measured the relative intensities of these errors and found out possible causes for the occurrences of these errors. In this study, one significant finding is that among the nine concepts of prepositions examined, the participant students tended to make the most number of errors in the use of prepositions of time and place. The present study has pedagogical implications in teaching English prepositions to Malay ESL students.
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author Loi, Chek Kim
Songyut Akkakoson
Mehmet Cem Odacıoğlu
Norazah Mohd Suki
Henry Bating
author_facet Loi, Chek Kim
Songyut Akkakoson
Mehmet Cem Odacıoğlu
Norazah Mohd Suki
Henry Bating
author_sort Loi, Chek Kim
title Malay ESL students’ difficulties in using English prepositions
title_short Malay ESL students’ difficulties in using English prepositions
title_full Malay ESL students’ difficulties in using English prepositions
title_fullStr Malay ESL students’ difficulties in using English prepositions
title_full_unstemmed Malay ESL students’ difficulties in using English prepositions
title_sort malay esl students’ difficulties in using english prepositions
publisher International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics
publishDate 2017
url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/18462/1/Malay%20ESL%20students.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/18462/
http://doi.org/10.18178/IJLLL.2017.3.3.121
http://doi.org/10.18178/IJLLL.2017.3.3.121
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