Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the usage of opinion verbs in Italian as a foreign language and any errors this usage may cause, taking into account intralanguage and interlanguage factors. First of all, we analyze the frequency of opinion verb types, in a Greek corpus of native speakers and we investigate the frequency of the same type of verbs in an Italian Translator Learner Corpus compiled by the same learners. Secondly, we explore to what extent there are errors regarding the use of opinion verbs. The data will show that learners, in some cases, commit errors because of their mother tongue influence while in others they avoid using opinion verbs because of this particular lack of knowledge.
Highlights
In this paper, we will present a study on opinion verbs, aiming to provide useful advice for Italian language teachers in Greece, as our main target is to facilitate the learning procedure of the Italian language for Greek learners
In this paper, we investigate the usage of opinion verbs in Italian as a foreign language and any errors this usage may cause, taking into account intralanguage and interlanguage factors
We analyze the frequency of opinion verb types, in a Greek corpus of native speakers and we investigate the frequency of the same type of verbs in an Italian Translator Learner Corpus compiled by the same learners
Summary
We will present a study on opinion verbs, aiming to provide useful advice for Italian language teachers in Greece, as our main target is to facilitate the learning procedure of the Italian language for Greek learners. For this reason we will use corpus linguistics methods as they are “the most appropriate resource to use among the wealth of other resources available” in pedagogy (Flowerdew 2009). The syntactic rule is clear: according to the online grammar of Academia della Crusca (2020) “The verbs that express [...]
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