Malay ESL students’ difficulties in using English prepositions

• Main Authors: Loi, Chek Kim, Songyut Akkakoson, Mehmet Cem Odacıoğlu, Norazah Mohd Suki, Henry Bating
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics 2017
• Subjects: PE English language
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/18462/1/Malay%20ESL%20students.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/18462/; http://doi.org/10.18178/IJLLL.2017.3.3.121; http://doi.org/10.18178/IJLLL.2017.3.3.121

The study attempts to undertake an error analysis of prepositions employed in the written work of Form 4 Malay ESL (English as a Second Language) students in Malaysia. The error analysis was undertaken using Richards’s (1974) framework of intralingual and interlingual errors and Bennett’s (1975) fra...