Creativity and unnaturalness in the use of phrasal verbs in ESL learner language

Interest in ESL learner language has gained momentum since the 1990s with the generation of learner corpora, development of robust Concordance software and the establishment of the principles of the corpus –-linguistic methodology. All these innovations have empowered researchers to investigate no...

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Main Authors:	Zarifi, Abdolvahed, Jayakaran Mukundan
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Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2014
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7738/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7738/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7738/1/6383-18886-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-77382016-12-14T06:45:02Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7738/ Creativity and unnaturalness in the use of phrasal verbs in ESL learner language Zarifi, Abdolvahed Jayakaran Mukundan, Interest in ESL learner language has gained momentum since the 1990s with the generation of learner corpora, development of robust Concordance software and the establishment of the principles of the corpus –-linguistic methodology. All these innovations have empowered researchers to investigate not only the frequent but also the idiosyncratic features of different language phenomena in learner language. This corpus-based content analysis stydy was an attempt to explore the phenomena of creativity and unnaturalness in the use of phrasal verbs in an ESL context. Findings revealed that albeit the ESL learners were competent enough in creating compositional phrasal verbs, hence creative, they often produced unusual forms in their attempt to use and create idiomatic phrasal verbs. Materials developers and teachers are, therefore, recommended to provide materials and learning activities that would enable ESL learners to more effectively acquire phrasal verbs in general and idiomatic combinations in particular. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7738/1/6383-18886-1-PB.pdf Zarifi, Abdolvahed and Jayakaran Mukundan, (2014) Creativity and unnaturalness in the use of phrasal verbs in ESL learner language. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 20 (3). pp. 51-62. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l/index
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description	Interest in ESL learner language has gained momentum since the 1990s with the generation of learner corpora, development of robust Concordance software and the establishment of the principles of the corpus –-linguistic methodology. All these innovations have empowered researchers to investigate not only the frequent but also the idiosyncratic features of different language phenomena in learner language. This corpus-based content analysis stydy was an attempt to explore the phenomena of creativity and unnaturalness in the use of phrasal verbs in an ESL context. Findings revealed that albeit the ESL learners were competent enough in creating compositional phrasal verbs, hence creative, they often produced unusual forms in their attempt to use and create idiomatic phrasal verbs. Materials developers and teachers are, therefore, recommended to provide materials and learning activities that would enable ESL learners to more effectively acquire phrasal verbs in general and idiomatic combinations in particular.
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author_facet	Zarifi, Abdolvahed Jayakaran Mukundan,
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title	Creativity and unnaturalness in the use of phrasal verbs in ESL learner language
title_short	Creativity and unnaturalness in the use of phrasal verbs in ESL learner language
title_full	Creativity and unnaturalness in the use of phrasal verbs in ESL learner language
title_fullStr	Creativity and unnaturalness in the use of phrasal verbs in ESL learner language
title_full_unstemmed	Creativity and unnaturalness in the use of phrasal verbs in ESL learner language
title_sort	creativity and unnaturalness in the use of phrasal verbs in esl learner language
publisher	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate	2014
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Creativity and unnaturalness in the use of phrasal verbs in ESL learner language

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