Publication details
Závislé předložky v maturitních pracích z angličtiny: Kolokace s přídavnými jmény a se slovesy
| Title in English | Dependent prepositions in Czech students’s essays: Adjective and verb collocations |
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | This paper analyses the range and appropriateness of dependent prepositions used with adjectives and verbs in the corpus of 380 school-leaving essays and compares the results with English Vocabulary and Grammar Profile as a reference tool for the required B1 level according to the CEFR. The findings revealed that Czech students attempted to complement 7.5% of adjectives and 45% of verbs with prepositional phrases. While mother-tongue influence was likely to be responsible for more errors in adjective-complementation, the errors in verb-complementation were largely caused by the fact that students tend to confuse the verbs with similar or related meanings. |
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