THE PREFERENCES OF TURKISH EFL LEARNERS IN USING PHRASAL VERBS OR SYNONYMOUS ONE -WORD VERBS
İNGİLİZCE ÖĞRENEN TÜRK ÖĞRENCİLERİN DEYİMSEL FİİLLERİ VEYA EŞ ANLAMLI TEK KELİMELİK FİİLLERİ KULLANMA TERCİHLERİ

Author : Esra KARAKUŞ
Number of pages : 216-225

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the preferences of Turkish EFL sophomores regarding the usage of most common phrasal verbs in Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays (LOCNESS) in the case of coexistent synonymous one-word verbs. 30 participants that are currently enrolled at the Department of Foreign Language Education, at METU were given two tests. A preference test (in which each item required learners to indicate to what degree they opted whether a phrasal verb or one – word on a five point scale) and translation test (based on free production as well as being composed of Turkish equivalents of selected phrasal verbs in preference test) including 15 items were administered. The results showed that figurative phrasal verbs resulted in being avoided by learners more than literal phrasal verbs probably due to their semantic complexity. In addition, task type was found to affect the preferences of learners regarding the usage of phrasal verbs since one-word verbs appeared more frequently in translation task. Finally, it was revealed that Turkish EFL sophomores did not avoid phrasal verbs to a greater extent in both test types.

Keywords

avoidance, phrasal verbs, task type

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