Publication details
Slovesné vazby v maturitních pracích z angličtiny
| Title in English | Verb patterns in English school-leaving essays |
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | This paper presents the results of a study investigating the frequency and accuracy of five different verb patterns in a Czech learner corpus. CZEMATELC 2017 (44,044 tokens; 2,765 types) is an English language learner corpus consisting of 390 essays from the written part of the national school-leaving examination. The findings reveal that the majority of correctly created patterns (n=961) can be attributed to A1 and A2 CEFR levels, while patterns at B1 CEFR level are less frequent (n=85). Czech learners use English verbs predominantly in patterns that used with these verbs most frequently also in Czech National Corpus and Brown Family (C8tags) (n=26) or only in Czech National Corpus (n=10). Verb patterns, in which infinitive and to-infinitive are preceded by an object are scarce and students use them more often only if they appear in well-rehearsed phrases or if a similar pattern appears also in Czech. The most frequent errors seem to be an erroneous complementation by an infinitive without “to”, which could be attributed to mother-tongue influence and a complementation by past-tense form, which could be attributed to overgeneralization. |
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