Syntactic and Semantic Mastery of English Auxiliaries by Kurd Learners at College Level (eBook)

Paiman Hama Salih Sabir (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
112 Seiten
Upa (Verlag)
978-0-7618-6654-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book investigates Kurd EFL learners’ ability in recognizing and producing the various forms and meanings of English auxiliary verbs, clarifying the problems that Kurd EFL learners encounter in learning the auxiliary verbs and identifies the sources behind them, and trying to put suitable suggestions to overcome these problems.

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The Syntax and Semantics of English Auxiliaries by Kurd Learners at College Level is concerned with the syntactic and semantic aspects of English auxiliary verbs (which comprise the primary and the modals) as a problematic area for English foreign language learners. The study aims at investigating Kurd EFL learners' ability in recognizing and producing the various forms and meanings of English auxiliary verbs, clarifying the problems that Kurd EFL learners encounter in learning the auxiliary verbs and identifies the sources behind them, and trying to put suitable suggestions to overcome these problems.Its use of error analysis methodology makes this study unique as there are no other studies within its field to deal with topic in such a systematic and analytical method.

Autor

Paiman Sabir was born in the city of Hallabja. She finished her secondary school in the city, but later moved to Sulaimani. She received her BA from Mosul University and her MA in Linguistics/Applied Linguistics at the University of Sulaimani. Since 2009 she has been teaching, supervising, and working as a researcher at the College of Basic Education. Since 2013 she has published four studies in the field of Applied Linguistics, and is currently working on two new studies.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsKey to the Kurdish Phonemic SystemChapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Central Concepts in Foreign Language LearningChapter Three: Auxiliary Verbs in EnglishChapter Four: Data CollectionChapter Five: Data Analysis and Discussion of the ResultsChapter Six: Conclusions, Pedagogical Recommendations and Suggestions for Further Research BibliographyAppendixAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.5.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 25 Illustrations including: - 21 Tables; - 4 Graphs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Error Analysis • Factors of Leaners Errors • Interlanguage Transfer • Intralingual Transfer • Language Acquisition and Language Learning • The Syntax and Semantics of English Auxiliaries
• ISBN-10: 0-7618-6654-X / 076186654X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7618-6654-1 / 9780761866541