| Type of Document |
Master's Thesis |
| Author |
Cheon, Yunseong
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| URN |
etd-08172006-103008 |
| Title |
A Pilot Study in Learning English Phrasal Verbs |
| Degree |
Master of Arts |
| Program |
Linguistics |
| School |
School of Arts and Sciences |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Alan Juffs |
Committee Chair |
| Claire B. Siskin |
Committee Member |
| Dawn McCormick |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
- ESL
- phrasal verbs
- second language acquisition
- Arabic learners
- Korean learners
- vocabulary
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| Date of Defense |
2006-07-28 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
This paper investigates the effect of learning conditions on phrasal verbs in adult ESL learners. It aims to find more effective learning conditions for phrasal verbs taking into account the influence of proficiency and the learner’s first language. The study, which was designed as an experimental study, includes the following procedures: a pre-test/treatment/post-test. The experiment was conducted using Arabic and Korean learners, and they were divided into two proficiency levels (high and low levels) according to the results of the pre-test. The interaction between the learning condition (translation versus context), the proficiency level, and first language was studied. The semantic properties of phrasal verbs (transparent versus idiomatic phrasal verbs) were also examined. The study suggests that the context learning condition was more beneficial to Arabic participants whereas the translation learning condition was more beneficial to Korean participants.
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