Use Of Prepositions Research Articles

Online tools for efficient paper writing

For researchers, writing a paper is an essential task, and it is crucial for them to have an environment to facilitate the paper writing process. In addition, writing in English is more difficult for many non-native English speakers. The Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS) provides researchers in the life sciences with several text-mining related services, such as Allie and inMeXes, which were developed to facilitate paper writing. Allie is an abbreviation database that shows researchers expanded forms and several relevant data, such as the papers that contain the abbreviations and their corresponding expanded forms. Since a large amount of abbreviations are coined, remembering their meanings is difficult, even in one’s research field. Therefore, Allie helps one lookup abbreviations. inMeXes is an incremental search service for English phrases appearing in PubMed. Researchers can learn English phrases used in life science papers, such as the use of prepositions or widely used phrases that contain a specific word. Allie and inMeXes are updated monthly and yearly, respectively, to provide the latest information.

A Study on the Use of Locative Prepositions by Chinese English Majors in English Writing

This study aims to examine 40 Chinese English majors’ use of locative prepositions in English writing. The students were randomly selected from the English department of a private university in Fujian, China. They were first informed of the purpose of the study, followed by being required to participate in an English writing activity. Through the analysis of the collected 40 writing samples, the researchers of the study discovered that the prepositions “on”, “in” and “by” are the most frequently used in the participants’ writing; the prepositions “above”, “under” and “among” are the least frequently used. The locative preposition “in” has the highest frequency of use and also has the highest error frequency. Moreover, the error types that occur in the 40 Chinese college students’ use of prepositions (including locative prepositions) in English writing mainly include preposition redundancy, preposition omission, and misuse of prepositions.

Serious game designed as a support tool for lexicology

Serious games (SG), which are part of digital game-based language learning (DGBLL), can be perspective in game-based learning and teaching support. DGBLL has been one of the fastest-growing areas of interest in language learning in recent years. This paper describes a study of prepositions, an SG designed for participants of the 3rd year of lower primary school stages in Slovakia to improve their use of prepositions on a sample of participants (n = 30). The aim of this paper is to perform the user acceptance test and analyzing of user satisfaction with this designed SG. A secondary goal is to classify the degree to which English prepositions were problematic for participants. The results and conclusions have been summarized and graphically visualized.

Error Analysis in Korean EFL Learners’ Writing: A Case Study of Elementary Level Learners

This study investigated the types of errors in the essay writing of college students at the elementary level. A total of sixty-four data were collected from thirty-five college students at the elementary level who took a general English course. Dulay et al. (1982)’s surface strategy taxonomy was adopted for the analysis and the students’ errors were categorized into four parts, such as omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. Results showed that the frequency of errors from misformation was the highest (51%), followed by omission (32.95%), misordering (10.71%), and addition (4.76%). In more detail, tense errors were revealed most frequently, followed by word choice. In particular, errors in the use of articles and prepositions occurred in various forms, which are construed as a result of a language system that does not exist in the mother tongue. The students in this study committed various grammatical errors at the sentence level as well as showed a lack of general knowledge about writing. It suggests that second language learners should be taught not only linguistic knowledge but also the strategy to improve writing skills.

Analisis Penulisan Preposisi pada Berita Media Center Kabupaten Indragiri Hilir

The presence of the right preposition in a sentence will lead to attachment both from a grammatical and semantic perspective. If the use of prepositions is not appropriate in the sentence, there will be a blurring of the sentence structure and the meaning of the sentence. This research raises the problem, namely, how is the analysis of prepositional writing on Media Center news in Indragiri Hilir Regency? With a qualitative approach. The technique used is the hermeneutic technique. The theoretical reference in this study is Chaer (2009). From the results of processed data related to the Analysis of Writing Prepositions at Media Center News in Indragiri Hilir Regency, it is known that there are as many as 45 prepositional word data in Media Center News, Indragiri Hilir Regency. In this case, it is also known that the preposition in the sentence used to express "where-is" is placed to the left of the noun which states the actual place. There are as many as 5 prepositional data used to express "where is located". The preposition is placed to the left of the name of the institution or institution. There is as much as 1 inner word data that has one proposition, namely, there is an inner word that shows within a period because it only states the inner preposition which states the preposition where it is located, the place of origin indicator has a prepositional word only from having a total of 11 data. This is the proposition of the place of origin is a preposition that states the place of origin of the noun that follows, for example, the preposition of the place of origin is the preposition of.

THE USE OF GRAMMARLY APPLICATION AS ELECTRONIC FEEDBACK ON STUDENTS WRITING OF ENGLISH THESIS AT UNIVERSITIES IN TERNATE CITY

The development of technology and learning English is towards the concept of providing electronic feedback. This research aims: 1). To find out electronic feedback with ‘Grammarly’ in students' writing of English thesis, and 2). To find out the lecturers’ perceptions and experiences related to the use of the 'Grammarly' application as electronic feedback, including in students’ writing of English thesis at universities in Ternate City. Ten lecturers as supervisors and five research proposal texts of thesis from the three universities in Ternate (Khairun University, Muhammadiyah University of North Maluku, and the Teaching and Education College (STKIP)) became the sources of the data in this study. Data collection techniques in this study were carried out using documents and interviews. The collected data were analyzed using thematic analysis (thematic analysis). The findings show that the use of the 'Grammarly' application in the text of the student thesis research proposal revealed some feedback on the errors in students’ writing of their thesis research proposal. Feedback on errors that occur in all existing texts is primarily related to spelling, followed by grammar (grammar) such as the use of articles (article), plural markers, prepositions, and subject-verb agreement. In addition, errors that occur in some thesis proposal texts are the use of punctuation and capital letters. Ten lecturers’ interview data show a positive perception in the use of 'Grammarly'. However, only four have used its application and six other lecturers have not used it.

GRAMATICAL ERRORS OF SHORT STORY BY BLOGGER IN INTERNET

English is not second language of Indonesia, so lot of them has lot of Errors when they are learning English, one of them is grammar error, in this research will talk about the grammar error and the correction of short story, also discuss about what is the errors of this story and what are they, in this reseach has some purpose to study about grammar errors. This writing was carried out for research on how many grammatical errors in the content of a blogger on the internet, in this study the author uses the method of error analysis.The results of this study indicate several aspects of error, namely, Errors in the use of groups of verbs, Errors in the use of prepositions, Errors in the use of pronouns, Errors in the use of adverbs, this is due to several factors, one of which is because English is their second language. and not the first language, etc.

Between exonormative traditions and local acceptance: A corpus-linguistic study of modals of obligation and spatial prepositions in spoken Ugandan English

Abstract Research into Ugandan English places it in the nativisation phase of the evolution of Englishes, amidst a nexus of local acceptance with ingredients of endonormativity and ingrained exonormative traditions. The current study shows how the use of modal verbs of obligation and spatial prepositions provides insights into how the nexus of the above phenomena has shaped Ugandan English. For example, although the preference of have to over must is a global trend, in Ugandan English, it is more prevalent in Bantu-speaking than in Nilotic-speaking areas because of substrate influence. Crucially, although the use of spatial prepositions is generally similar to how they are used in, for example, (standard) British English, the peculiar use of from to encode stative location in Ugandan English is, despite some regional variations, so widespread in the country that it tends towards endonormative stabilisation.

THE EFFECT OF ENHANCED EXTENSIVE READING TO THE INCIDENTAL ENGLISH PREPOSITION ACQUISITION

The English prepositions are still problematic for EFL learners since the existing knowledge of their first language hinders them from understanding the use of English prepositions. This study investigated the effect of enhanced extensive reading on their incidental English preposition acquisition. A total of 16 Indonesian University learners of English as a foreign language participated in this study. The treatment lasted for four weeks, initiated with the pretest. Two weeks after the treatment, the posttest was administered, followed by distributing questionnaires to find out the factors influencing them in doing the posttest. The results showed a significant improvement in the students' incidental acquisition of the targeted English prepositions after they received repeated exposure to the English prepositions through enhanced extensive reading. The factors influencing the improvement of their incidental acquisition involve their existing knowledge of the English prepositions and their built intuition in decision making. It is hoped that teachers and educational institutions are encouraged to add extensive reading to their curriculum.

Comparative Analysis of English Prepositions In and On Translated Into Albanian

The most common use of prepositions is to express the meaning of words placed before a noun or a pronoun, and as such they are used very frequently. The English language as well as the Albanian language, uses prepositions frequently, thus enriching the given language and allowing for a clearer expression of the functions of a sentence. This research is centered around certain prepositions in English which have a high frequency of use, and yet are quite simple. While comparing them, we will deepen the knowledge of these most frequent prepositions in English, their use and how they are translated into Albanian. These language comparison studies are becoming increasingly appealing. The structure and norms under which words interrelate are part of the study of language as a method of communication. Scholars are faced with the requirement to perform research on challenging subjects and make global and local comparisons. Therefore, this research looks into analytical and comparative analysis with the aim of enlightening and empowering the current use of prepositions in and on and giving a clearer picture of their translations in Albanian. The research is based on the analysis of two English novels that have been translated into Albanian.

Kesalahan Berbahasa pada Berita Daring/Online

Abstrac: Language Errors in Online News. This research was motivated by the findings of language errors found in news writing, especially in online news. Online news is news that utilizes the network as a medium of delivery and is considered the fastest in its presentation. This study aims to describe the misuse of Indonesian in writing online news. There are two benefits of this research, namely theoretical benefits and practical benefits. This type of research is qualitative research using descriptive methods. The object of research analyzed in this study is language errors in online news. Furthermore, the source of data in this study is news published in online media. Data collection techniques in this study are divided into several stages, namely reading and observation, checking, then the last is documentation. The results of this study are (1) the form of spelling errors including errors in the use of capital letters, writing italics. use of prepositions, use of periods, use of commas and use of hyphens. (2) Forms of misuse of diction include waste of the suffix "his" and misuse of conjunctions.

The Use of Prepositions among EFL Learners: A Systematic Review

<p>As a second/foreign language learner, one should understand the rules and convention of the language s/he learns and how to use it. Therefore, s/he needs to master the language to be able to have good communication with others. One aspect that needs to be learned is parts of speech such as nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and prepositions. Prepositions play a significant role in helping students increase their language skills. However, many students still face difficulties in learning its type of parts of speech. The purpose of this study is to examine the trends and main findings of the studies about the main error types and causes in using prepositions among second/foreign language learner. For this objective, articles from databases comprising Google Scholar, Eric, and Garuda Ristek were reviewed, and overall, selected articles were analysed. As the research methodology, systematic review was performed. A content analysis was used to evaluate the articles. According to the results of the study, the main error type in using prepositions among the learners is the wrong use of prepositions. In the meantime, the main cause of the errors made by the learners in using prepositions is the interlingual interference</p>

CORPUS OF RUSSIAN DIALECTS OF UDMURTIA AS A TOOL FOR STUDYING PHONETIC AND GRAMMAR DIALECT FEATURES

The possibilities of using materials and interrogative forms of the corpus of Russian dialects of Udmurtia in the study of phonetic and grammatical features of the dialect language of this territory are considered. Initially, the corpus was created for the study of dialect vocabulary, semantics and word formation, the markup is associated with the Program of the Lexical Atlas of Russian Folk Dialects. However, the availability of corpus texts, as well as the ability to search not only individual words, but also their elements, make it possible to obtain information about the specific features of vocalism, consonantism, morphological and syntactic structure of Russian dialects of Udmurtia. With the help of the corpus, linguistic data were obtained and analyzed on the spread of okanya, reflexes of the ancient ѣ , on the loss of intervocalic j, the tendency to unify verbal paradigms, the coincidence of the endings of the dative and instrumental cases of plural nouns, on the use of prepositions when specifying an object in constructions with the meaning of purpose, direction, distribution of constructions with the nominative case of nouns in the words “no”, “many”. As a result of the study of the data obtained, conclusions were drawn about the inconsistency in the manifestation of the features of the Northern Russian dialect, which traditionally includes the Russian dialects of Udmurtia, about their heterogeneity and the need for a more detailed study. In the course of the work, the expediency of using the material and interrogative forms of the corpus of Russian dialects of Udmurtia for phonetic and grammatical studies was confirmed.

Teaching English Grammar with Special Reference to the Use of Prepositions at Al-Balqa Applied University

This study aims to investigate the teaching of English grammar with special reference to the use of prepositions at Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan. The researcher has collected the data from a total of 120 students studying English at the four levels of BA English students. From each level, 30 students were selected to participate in this study. The data on English prepositions and other grammatical categories were analyzed by using a statistical model like SPSS version 16.0. The statistical analysis indicates that: (1) there is plenty of differences in the rate of committed errors by students at all levels. Furthermore, students face many problems in the use of English prepositions than the other grammatical categories. These problems are probably a result of the interference of their mother tongue (Arabic), and the lack of linguistic competence. (2) Errors of prepositions and other grammatical categories were not equally distributed within all levels of students. (3) The statistical analysis shows that prepositions are the most problematic grammatical item for students. Finally, the negative role of mother tongues influences in the learning of English prepositions and other grammatical categories noticed high. Some pedagogical implications have been given.

Enhancing English spatial prepositions acquisition among Spanish learners of English as L2 through an embodied approach

Abstract English spatial prepositions posit a great challenge to Spanish learners of English as an L2 due to the broad cross-linguistic differences in how languages structure space. Furthermore, a teaching methodology that could assist these learners in understanding these differences is absent because the pedagogical treatment of spatial language draws on the longstanding assumption that the relation between this kind of language and its meaning is rather arbitrary. Yet, research within the embodiment approach to language and cognition has attested that the use of spatial prepositions is motivated by geometric and functional properties of figure and ground and how these interact in space. This study examines whether instructing Spanish learners on these properties will enhance their performance. 74 participants at a B1 level were randomized to either receive an embodied approach-based training on spatial prepositions (n = 37) or to the control group (n = 37) without this training. Both groups were presented with a cloze test (60 sentences) on six spatial prepositions, in, on, at, to, into, and onto on pre- and post-test conditions. Scores for both groups were analyzed using ANCOVA with pre-test scores as covariate. Data analysis yields statistically significant results attesting the effectiveness of the Embodiment Approach.

한국인 영어학습자의 글쓰기에서 학교급에 따른 전치사 오류 분석

As a function word, preposition is known as one of the most difficult grammar elements for Korean learners of English. Previous studies have contributed to clarifying the characteristics of errors made by Korean learners in terms of prepositions, but it is rarely observed whether the higher the school level, i.e., as the exposure period in English increases, the more contextually the prepositions are used, or whether there is a difference in the use of prepositions by gender. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there are any differences in errors in the use of prepositions according to school levels or gender. As a result, there was no difference by gender, but there was a significant difference by school levels especially in the omission error (p=.009). In particular, it was reported that the college students group committed more omission errors than the high school students group (p=.019), which shows that the frequency of the errors of college students is higher than that of high school students, so that the proportion of prepositions

Kesalahan Berbahasa pada Bahasa Melayu di Thailand dan Solusinya dalam Perspektif Hasil Studi di Indonesia

This study is conducted to answer Language errors in Malay and their solutions. This study deals with difficulties coped by the teachers in planning, conducting and evaluating the learning. Methods of collection data using the interview method. The technique of data analysis is done by using reduction, presentation, conclusion drawing and data verification. The amount research respondents are around 8 people, namely the teachers at Tadika Al-Hidayah Bendang Jerambung, Southern Thailand. Based on the results of the study, it shows that there are still language errors in Malay, such as the use of the word contamination of the Patani area in Malay, the illogical use of sentences, the use of inappropriate punctuation marks, and errors in the use of prepositions. The factors that cause language errors in Malay are the lack of literacy activities, the habit of using everyday language, the lack of seriousness in learning time in class, and the Malay language learning curriculum cannot fulfill. Based on the perspective of learning in Indonesia, the solutions that can be offered are the implementation of the School Literacy Movement, the preparation of good learning plans, and the application of text-based learning.Kata kunci: Language Error, Malay Language, Tadika Teacher

ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL ERROR IN DESCRIPTIVE WRITING AMONG STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF STKIP AGAMA HINDU SINGARAJA IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021

The present study aimed at: (1) investigating the types of grammatical errors committed by the second semester students of English Education Department of STKIP Agama Hindu Singaraja in writing descriptive text and (2) explaining the causes of grammatical errors committed by the second semester students of English Education Department of STKIP Agama Hindu Singaraja in writing descriptive text. The data were collected by using documentation, questionnaire and interview. The study was descriptive study. The instruments were writing instruction, self assessment, questionnaire, interview guide and tape recorder. The study revealed that there were four kinds of errors found in their writing text, such as: verb errors, preposition errors, article errors and pronoun errors. Total of errors that the students committed was 538 errors. The most frequent errors were in the use of verb as many as 285 errors or 52.97%. There were 189 errors in the use of article or 35.13%. In the use of pronoun was found as many as 39 errors or 7.24%. Meanwhile, there were 25 errors in the use of preposition or 4.64%. There were four causes of errors committed by the students namely: the interference of the learners’ mother tongue, context of learning, overgeneralization, ignorance of rule restrictions. The result from interview showed that the students’ grammatical errors were mostly caused by intralingual factor which is grammar and structure.

Exploring Methods for Generating Feedback Comments for Writing Learning

The task of generating explanatory notes for language learners is known as feedback comment generation. Although various generation techniques are available, little is known about which methods are appropriate for this task. Nagata (2019) demonstrates the effectiveness of neural-retrieval-based methods in generating feedback comments for preposition use. Retrieval-based methods have limitations in that they can only output feedback comments existing in a given training data. Furthermore, feedback comments can be made on other grammatical and writing items than preposition use, which is still unaddressed. To shed light on these points, we investigate a wider range of methods for generating many feedback comments in this study. Our close analysis of the type of task leads us to investigate three different architectures for comment generation: (i) a neural-retrieval-based method as a baseline, (ii) a pointer-generator-based generation method as a neural seq2seq method, (iii) a retrieve-and-edit method, a hybrid of (i) and (ii). Intuitively, the pointer-generator should outperform neural-retrieval, and retrieve-and-edit should perform best. However, in our experiments, this expectation is completely overturned. We closely analyze the results to reveal the major causes of these counter-intuitive results and report on our findings from the experiments.

The Influence of Diglossia on Syntactic Proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic among Regular and Struggling Readers

This study examines the influence of diglossia on syntactic proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) among 63 fourth-graders in central Israel, divided into two groups: regular and struggling. They were given three examinations constructed especially for this study: translating sentences from Spoken Arabic Vernacular (SAV) into MSA, a cloze test, and an oral exam, in which the pupils were asked to describe pictures in MSA. The findings revealed errors in the use of connectives, the use of prepositions, sentence integrity, and verb conjugation. No significant differences were found between regular and struggling pupils in average test scores in terms of errors in syntactic elements. In using prepositions, regular pupils made more errors than did struggling pupils; this was because the latter did not answer questions relating to this element. Several factors explain the effect of diglossia on syntactic proficiency: the similarity of MSA and SAV, the influence of the surroundings, scanty reading of books, the teaching methods used in Arab schools, the influence of Hebrew on the Arab student, and the lack of encouragement from the establishment and the education system. Future research should investigate this effect on a larger sample in order to obtain more representative outcomes.