The use of articles in L2 English: A phraseological perspective

Abstract

While it is a well-known fact that speakers of article-less mother tongues, such as Polish, experience problems with articles in English, this study seeks to investigate the problem from a different perspective. Namely, it poses the question of whether the correct use of the article system of the L2 is indeed a purely grammatical task (as it is universally perceived), or whether the correct use of articles is to some extent aided by the mechanisms that underlie the formulaic character of language. The study was conducted with 90 Polish upper-intermediate and advanced users of L2 English, who completed a test on article use, which made it possible to compare patterns of article use between contexts of different collocational strength (defined in terms of the frequency of occurrence in a corpus). The statistically higher success rates for article use in high-frequency collocations (with the grammatical "rule" being the same) indicate that phraseological aspects of language use may indeed play a role in what is usually perceived as the correct application of grammatical rules.

Beyond shadow of doubt: Proficiency and use of non-generic use of English definite article by L1-Persian EFL learners

“…This is the place of contradiction among scholars. Although in the past scholars have pointed to the importance of proficiency level in learning article system in English in general (Butler, 2002;KoÇ, 2015;Lesniewska, 2016;Liu & Gleason, 2002;Pica, 1983;Shirazi & Shabanluie, 2014 others), still there are other factors that need to be factored in second language studies as such the most important of which is first language of EFL learners.…”

Analisis Kesalahan Gramatikal Dalam Abstrak Berbahasa Inggris

“…Kata sandang merupakan salah satu aspek gramatikal yang terkecil namun dapat menyebabkan kesalahan yang fatal jika tidak tepat digunakan dalam kalimat berbahasa Inggris, bahkan ini penggunaan kata sandang menjadi kesulitan bagi pembelajar bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa kedua atau bahasa asing (Leśniewska 2016;Nanning, Saepudin 2020). Ada dua jenis kata sandang dalam bahasa Inggris yaitu a/an, dan the (Amara 2015).…”