Korean EFL Learners’ Understanding of Polysemous Preposition Senses
Korean EFL Learners' Understanding of Polysemous Preposition Senses
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This paper examined how well Korean EFL university students recognize the multiple senses of high-frequency polysemous English prepositions. With 10 target prepositions―after, against, behind, for, in, into, off, on, over, and through―40 undergraduates took a choice test asking them to fill in the blanks with the correct prepositions. The results of the test revealed that the students' knowledge of the target words was rather limited. Interviews were conducted to discover what was behind their failure to make the most of the prepositions. It turned out that most of the students interviewed had an overlysimplistic understanding of what prepositions have to offer, which in turn has led them to give prepositions a low priority in their study of English. The findings of the study suggest that the students in the study need to be helped to take a more proactive approach to learning prepositions.
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This paper examined how well Korean EFL university students recognize the multiple senses of high-frequency polysemous English prepositions. With 10 target prepositions―after, against, behind, for, in, into, off, on, over, and through―40 undergraduates took a choice test asking them to fill in the blanks with the correct prepositions. The results of the test revealed that the students' knowledge of the target words was rather limited. Interviews were conducted to discover what was behind their failure to make the most of the prepositions. It turned out that most of the students interviewed had an overlysimplistic understanding of what prepositions have to offer, which in turn has led them to give prepositions a low priority in their study of English. The findings of the study suggest that the students in the study need to be helped to take a more proactive approach to learning prepositions.
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