CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF PREPOSITIONAL ERRORS
Journal Title: Academic Research International - Year 2013, Vol 4, Issue 5
Abstract
This quantitative study attempts to examine the English prepositional errors exhibited in the written specimen of secondary school students of Pakistan while learning English as their second language. Error analysis is used in this study, as a method of diagnosing errors in the written compositions. Cordor (1973) classified errors into four categories: omission, addition, substitution and disordering. Moreover, errors may be interlingual i.e. L1 or mother tongue influence as suggested by James (1998). Along with this, moderate version of Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (CAH) is used as a method for describing prepositional systems of Urdu and English languages as Bloomfield (1933) , Fries (1945) and Lado (1957) claimed that by comparing the systems of the native language and language to be learned, predictions could be made about possible difficulties in learning. The study sample was composed of 100 written compositions collected from randomly selected different private and Government secondary schools in Sargodha. This paper will highlight the identification, description, categorization and explanation of errors found in the gathered written data. The findings conclude that interference of Urdu (L1 of learners) is maximum as the results exhibit the dominance of inters language in prepositional errors. Further, this study suggests the need for exploring new teaching strategies particularly to teach tricky areas of second language i.e. prepositions
Authors and Affiliations
Hafiz Bilal, Abdur Tariq, Shabana Yaqub, Sadia Kanwal
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP99830
- DOI -
- Views 118
- Downloads 0
THE ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS OF TRANSFER STUDENTS TOWARDS NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS ENGLISH LECTURERS
In the field of English Language Teaching (ELT), a vast number of teachers are not native speakers of English. The majority of students worldwide learn English in foreign language (EFL) contexts and consequently, most...
THE EFFECTS OF USING READING RACETRACKS COMBINED WITH DIRECT INSTRUCTION PRECISION TEACHING AND A TOKEN ECONOMY TO IMPROVE THE READING PERFORMANCE FOR A 12-YEAR-OLD STUDENT WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES*
We used “reading racetrack,” a token economy procedure combined with direct instruction, and precision teaching techniques to increase the accuracy and fluency of a sixth-grade student with learning disabilities. Our p...
Analyzing the Social Skills of Four and Five Year Old Pre-school Children according to their Mothers’ Attitudes
This study aims to analyze whether the social skill levels of four and five year old preschool children change according to their mother’ attitudes. This research was conducted among 104 children (58 girls and 46 boys) w...
Pollution Status of Heavy Metals in Sediments, Water and Biota of Kalabari Creeks, Rivers State, Nigeria
Pollution status of five heavy metals (V, Cd, Pb, Ni, Cu, and Fe) were assessed in Kalabari creeks in the lower reaches of New Calabar River. Sediments, periwinkle (Tympanotonus fuscatus) and water were collected from Ju...
A RETREAT TO A WORLD OF IMAGINATION FARNOOSH MOSHIRI'S AT THE WALL OF THE ALMIGHTY:
The writings of Farnoosh Moshiri mainly deal with the relationship of some individuals with the political regime in Iran in the period before and after the 1979 revolution and what these characters encounter of suf...