Learner knowledge of phrasal verbs
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Norbert Schmitt
Abstract
This study analyses whether a group of learners’ productive and receptive knowledge of some of the most common phrasal verbs (PVs) is related to the frequency of those PVs. Secondly, we look at factors which may have affected the learners’ PV knowledge. The learners completed two tests (productive, receptive) and were also required to complete a biodata questionnaire containing questions about age, gender and nationality, and items relating to the language instruction they received and the incidental exposure they had to English. The analysis of the data shows that there is a relationship between learner knowledge and PV frequency, and that extensive reading and watching English language films and TV programmes appear to have a positive effect on the acquisition of PVs.
Abstract
This study analyses whether a group of learners’ productive and receptive knowledge of some of the most common phrasal verbs (PVs) is related to the frequency of those PVs. Secondly, we look at factors which may have affected the learners’ PV knowledge. The learners completed two tests (productive, receptive) and were also required to complete a biodata questionnaire containing questions about age, gender and nationality, and items relating to the language instruction they received and the incidental exposure they had to English. The analysis of the data shows that there is a relationship between learner knowledge and PV frequency, and that extensive reading and watching English language films and TV programmes appear to have a positive effect on the acquisition of PVs.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements ix
- List of contributors xi
- Preface xiii
- Putting corpora to good uses 1
- Frequency, corpora and language learning 7
- Learner corpora and contrastive interlanguage analysis 33
- The use of small corpora for tracing the development of academic literacies 63
- Revisiting apprentice texts 85
- Automatic error tagging of spelling mistakes in learner corpora 109
- Data mining with learner corpora 127
- Learners and users – Who do we want corpus data from? 155
- Learner knowledge of phrasal verbs 173
- Corpora and the new Englishes 209
- Towards a new generation of corpus-derived lexical resources for language learning 237
- Automating the creation of dictionaries 257
- addendumSelect list of publications by Sylviane Granger 283
- Subject index 289
- Name index 293
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements ix
- List of contributors xi
- Preface xiii
- Putting corpora to good uses 1
- Frequency, corpora and language learning 7
- Learner corpora and contrastive interlanguage analysis 33
- The use of small corpora for tracing the development of academic literacies 63
- Revisiting apprentice texts 85
- Automatic error tagging of spelling mistakes in learner corpora 109
- Data mining with learner corpora 127
- Learners and users – Who do we want corpus data from? 155
- Learner knowledge of phrasal verbs 173
- Corpora and the new Englishes 209
- Towards a new generation of corpus-derived lexical resources for language learning 237
- Automating the creation of dictionaries 257
- addendumSelect list of publications by Sylviane Granger 283
- Subject index 289
- Name index 293
