Prepositions: Learning Difficulties of a Semantically-Oriented Part of Speech

IF 0.6 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.25130/jls.3.1.6

Ibrahem Muhammed Ali Mustafa, Hashim Saadoon Saleem Alnuaimi

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Abstract

The learners of English mostly face difficulties in selecting the right preposition for a sentence in speech and in writing. The wrong choice of preposition could occasionally be ascribed to interference and overlap caused between the mother tongue and the target language. One more difficulty may emerge when a single preposition may possibly have more than one semantic use. It is hypothesized that the linguistic differences between English and Arabic could be the reason behind impeding the learners of doing well in the target language. The learners, therefore, may unconsciously covey the Arabic linguistic habits to English although the syntactic and semantic characteristics between the two languages are totally different. The researchers

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介词:语义导向词类的学习困难

英语学习者在口语和书面语中经常遇到选择正确介词的困难。介词的错误选择有时可归因于母语和目的语之间的干扰和重叠。当一个介词可能有不止一种语义用法时，就会出现另一个困难。据推测，英语和阿拉伯语之间的语言差异可能是阻碍学习者学好目标语言的原因。因此，尽管两种语言的句法和语义特征完全不同，但学习者可能会不自觉地将阿拉伯语的语言习惯传递给英语。研究人员

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GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

25.00%

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审稿时长

24 weeks

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