Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Lingüística mención Lengua Inglesa / This work aimed to investigate about the way Chilean students acquire English
Prepositions ‘in’, ‘on’, and ‘at’.
Through the identification of the most common strategies used by students when
choosing one these three prepositions, the researcher aimed to find out about the
difficulties the learners face when using those particles. The data analysis is based on the cognitive aspects of interlanguage, as well as some different notions
on the learner´s knowledge. This work shows the way modern Linguistics has considered this kind of words and
emphasizes their semantic roles. The data was collected through the use of Cloze Tests and interviews made to primary and secondary students from The Deutsche
Schule in Los Angeles, Chile. The aim of the researcher with the interviews was to find out about the reasons why the students chose a particular preposition for their cloze tests. The results showed the students used several strategies to choose among ‘in’, ‘on’, and ‘at’, like overgeneralization of basic uses, inference, application of rules, mental
images, among others. The researcher could conclude that learners do have tools to deal with the knowledge they already have and the knowledge they do not yet, which may contribute to the development of more appropriate approaches for teaching English
prepositions, to make learning a more meaningful process for the students.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UCHILE/oai:repositorio.uchile.cl:2250/115654 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Flores Galleguillos, Carmen |
| Contributors | Atoofi, Saeid, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Escuela de Postgrado, Departamento de Lingüística |
| Publisher | Universidad de Chile |
| Source Sets | Universidad de Chile |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Tesis |
| Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Chile, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cl/ |
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