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Vriend, Diana Lee – 1988
English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students in general, and Chinese speakers in particular, often omit or misuse English prepositions in speaking or writing. A study traced the history and structure of the English preposition, using contrastive analysis and error analysis to find sources of Chinese error. To determine if Chinese speakers exceed…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Cloze Procedure, Contrastive Linguistics
