THE PROBLEM OF ENGLISH SPATIAL, NON-SPATIAL, AND IDIOMATIC ADPOSITIONS IN IRANIAN EFL ENVIRONMENT: A PROTOTYPICAL APPROACH

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GOLAGHAEI NASSIM; SADIGHI FIROOZ

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Journal: THE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE Year:2010 | Volume:3 | Issue:2 (7) Page(s): 88-118

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THE PROBLEM OF ENGLISH SPATIAL, NON-SPATIAL, AND IDIOMATIC ADPOSITIONS IN IRANIAN EFL ENVIRONMENT: A PROTOTYPICAL APPROACH

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SPATIALQ2

NON-SPATIALQ3

AND IDIOMATIC ADPOSITIONSQ3

SATELLITE-FRAMED LANGUAGEQ3

L1 TRANSFERQ3

Abstract

Several studies of L2 learners’ interlanguage have addressed the complexity of the English adpositional system due to several reasons like L1 TRANSFER, lack of knowledge in L2, and the strong collocational relations of prepositions with other elements of the English language. The major purpose of the present study is to evaluate the performance of Iranian students dealing with three broad categories of SPATIAL, non-SPATIAL, AND IDIOMATIC ADPOSITIONS in English. To achieve the inclinations of this piece of research, 60 students majoring in TEFL at Roudehen University were selected. A paper-based TOEFL test of English Proficiency was administered to assess the participants’ general language proficiency. Three completion tasks with the division of SPATIAL, non-SPATIAL (nominal, adjectival, and verbal), AND IDIOMATIC ADPOSITIONS were administered. The results presented the fact that the Iranian participants were considerably inclined to transfer their L1 adpositional patterns to their L2 production. The correlational analyses indicated that the scores related to adposition task in general, non-SPATIAL as well as the idiomatic subtests werestrongly correlated with the scores obtained from the TOEFL test. A moderate correlation was found between the SPATIAL subtest and the TOEFL one. The independent sample t-test results between the freshmen and sophomores dealing with SPATIAL, nominal, and adjectival subtests were considered to be significant. However, in reference to the verbal subtest, the difference between the two groups was not significant. The results obtained from the independent sample t-test indicated no significant difference between the freshmen and sophomores regarding their performances on idiomatic adpositions. Finally, the results of the correlation coefficients showed high correlation coefficients between the whole adposition test and the three subtests of SPATIAL, non-SPATIAL, and idiomatic ones. Moreover, high and moderate correlations were reported among the three subtests with the highest correlation between the SPATIAL and non-SPATIAL subtests and the lowest between the idiomatic and SPATIAL ones.

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GOLAGHAEI, NASSIM, & SADIGHI, FIROOZ. (2010). THE PROBLEM OF ENGLISH SPATIAL, NON-SPATIAL, AND IDIOMATIC ADPOSITIONS IN IRANIAN EFL ENVIRONMENT: A PROTOTYPICAL APPROACH. THE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE, 3(2 (7)), 88-118. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/181382/en

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GOLAGHAEI NASSIM, SADIGHI FIROOZ. THE PROBLEM OF ENGLISH SPATIAL, NON-SPATIAL, AND IDIOMATIC ADPOSITIONS IN IRANIAN EFL ENVIRONMENT: A PROTOTYPICAL APPROACH. THE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE[Internet]. 2010;3(2 (7)):88-118. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/181382/en

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NASSIM GOLAGHAEI, and FIROOZ SADIGHI, “THE PROBLEM OF ENGLISH SPATIAL, NON-SPATIAL, AND IDIOMATIC ADPOSITIONS IN IRANIAN EFL ENVIRONMENT: A PROTOTYPICAL APPROACH,” THE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE, vol. 3, no. 2 (7), pp. 88–118, 2010, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/181382/en

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