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Exploring English
Listen to a few minutes
of someone speaking naturally (for example, not reading aloud or reciting
a poem), and if possible record them so that you can repeat the listening.
How clearly do they pronounce the prepositions? How easy or possible is
it to recognise them on the basis of sound alone?
Researching how
people use English
Devise a brief questionnaire
to find out people's reactions to variant and/or non standard use of prepositions.
Make a list of short phrases and read these aloud to four or five other
proficient users of English. Ask them to respond immediately by saying
'normal', 'acceptable' or 'unacceptable'. The following is an example
for you to use or adapt.
It's different
to mine.
We discussed about it a lot.
It's similar with mine.
We got off of the bus at the traffic lights.
I looked up the street.
Who did you come with? |
- To what extent
do the different people agree with each other?
- Do they agree with
you?
- Do their opinions
in any way conflict with what you teach?
If you have access
to a corpus of English and a concordancing programme, you can also compare
these responses to the data available in the corpus.
Course materials
Examine two or more
coursebooks from the same series:
- At what stage in
the course do prepositions first appear? Is attention paid to them explicitly
at this stage?
- At what stage in
the course are learners first required or asked to produce prepositions?
Are the prepositions simply contained in larger units of language (for
example, I come from ....... . might be taught as a functional expression)
or are they explained in their own right?
- When verbs, adjectives
or nouns are taught, is attention paid to prepositions which normally
accompany them?
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