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A Cognitive Linguistic Study of the English Prepositions Above, On, and Over
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Aajami, Raghad Fahmi – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
The current study analyzes three locative English prepositions, above, on, and over from a cognitive semantic point of view. Since English is a foreign language for Iraqi students, these prepositions pose a problem for Iraqi university students. The complexity of these three prepositions inspires the researcher to use the Cognitive Linguistic (CL)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Psycholinguistics, Student Attitudes
The Acquisition of Discourse-Pragmatic Rules for Null and Overt First-Person Subjects by Greek Learners of Turkish
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Çeltek, Aytaç – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
In Turkish, null and overt arguments do not show the same distributional properties at discourse level. There are discourse-pragmatic factors affecting this distribution (Kerslake, 1987; Ruhi, 1996; Turan, 1995; Çeltek & Oktar, 2014; Çeltek Kaili, 2017). Previous studies suggest that the acquisition of argument realization system in second…
Descriptors: Greek, Turkish, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning
Turkish Tertiary Level EFL Learners' Recognition of Relative Clauses
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Koçak, Arzu – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
This research study investigated Turkish Tertiary Level EFL learners' recognition level of relative clauses. The study also examined the difficulty level of types of relative clause constructions for Turkish EFL learners and the effect of instruction on the learners' acquisition of English relative clauses. The data were gathered from two…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Undergraduate Study, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning