Errors in the Usage of Prepositions in Advanced EFL Learners with Spanish as L1
| Thesis title in Czech: | Chyby v používání předložek u pokročilých španělských mluvčích anglického jazyka |
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| Thesis title in English: | Errors in the Usage of Prepositions in Advanced EFL Learners with Spanish as L1 |
| Key words: | mluvený jazyk|žákovský jazyk|chybová analýza|předložky|transfer|španělština |
| English key words: | spoken language|learner language|error analysis|prepositions|transfer|Spanish |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2021/2022 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology (21-UAJD) |
| Supervisor: | PhDr. Tomáš Gráf, Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 07.02.2022 |
| Date of assignment: | 07.02.2022 |
| Administrator's approval: | not processed yet |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 22.02.2022 |
| Date and time of defence: | 13.06.2023 00:00 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 02.12.2022 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 13.06.2023 |
| Submitted/finalized: | committed by student and finalized |
| Opponents: | doc. Dr. phil. Eva Maria Luef, Mag. phil. |
| Guidelines |
| Proposal: The aim of this bachelor thesis is to carry out a contrastive interlanguage analysis of advanced learner English of speakers with Spanish as L1, more specifically of the errors these speakers commit when using the prepositions “in”, “at” and “on”. The theoretical part will provide a brief description of the uses of the above-mentioned prepositions and of their Spanish counterpart “en”. The data for the practical part will be drawn from the Spanish subcorpus of LINDSEI. The mistakes will be analyzed with the aim of identifying the most error-prone areas for Spanish learners of English. Práce bude vypracována v angličtině. |
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