Prepositions used with adjectives in English essays written by Czech secondary school students
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | EduLingua |
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| Web | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/58147/1/edulingua_2018_001_001-022.pdf |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/edulingua.2018.1.2 |
| Keywords | adjectives; dependent preposition; prepositional phrase; collocation; data-driven learning |
| Description | This article focuses on the frequency and accuracy of dependent prepositions which complement the adjectives in CZEMATELC 2017, a corpus consisting of 390 essays from the written part of the national school-leaving exam leading to certification of secondary education in the Czech Republic. The research findings reveal that the learners used adjectives from A1 to B2 level, according to the CEFR. A limited number of A1 adjective lemmas was considerably overused, but showed the lowest proportion of dependent prepositional complementation. As learners tended not to complement the adjectives at A2 – B2 proficiency levels either, adjective-preposition collocations frequently co-occurring in native speaker corpora were identified for further remedial work. In addition, corpus-based discovery-learning was proposed as a solution because it encourages awareness and gradually leads to learner autonomy. |
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