Prepositional Intraference in ESL and Its Teaching: The Educated Nigerian English Examples

Autor/in	Ekundayo, Omowumi Steve Bode
Titel	Prepositional Intraference in ESL and Its Teaching: The Educated Nigerian English Examples
Quelle	In: Journal on English Language Teaching, 4 (2014) 4, S.39-49 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2231-3338
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; English (Second Language); Second Language Instruction; Questionnaires; Observation; Audio Equipment; Qualitative Research; Comparative Analysis; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics; Form Classes (Languages); Interlanguage; Nigeria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Fragebogen; Beobachtung; Audio-CD; Qualitative Forschung; Diskursanalyse; Soziolinguistik; Analytischer Sprachbau; Zielsprache
Abstract	This paper examines the linguistic habit of "prepositional intraference" in Educated Nigerian English (ENE) with a view to establishing why and how Nigerians produce prepositional intraference variations and how the variations distinguish ENE morphosyntax from native English morphosyntax, particularly Standard British English (SBE). Intraference in this paper is a coinage and reconceptualisation for "the overgeneralisation of linguistic materials and semantic features" (Selinker, 1984), "internal language transfer" or "intralingual interference" (Richards and Sampson, 1984), and "the internal principle of linguistic variability (Labov, 1994)." Questionnaire, observation and the recording of spontaneous speeches were used to gather data to substantiate the incidence of prepositional intraference in ENE. The method of data analysis is mainly qualitative, involving a comparative and textual analysis and explanation of examples in tables and a graph. It was discovered that as a result of certain sociolinguistic factors, educated Nigerians redeploy prepositions in several ways and contexts in which native English speakers will not. These distinguish ENE morphosyntax from other internal varieties of English. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01