Typical interlanguage features of Czech students documented in the written part of the school-leaving exam in English
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | This presentation focuses on frequency and accuracy of seven types of grammatical collocations, i.e. G5 (adj + perp), G8D (verb + prep) and G8E-G8I (verb patterns) (Benson et al., 1986), and requests constituents in CZEMATELC, an English language learner corpus (8,338 types; 211,503 tokens) consisting of 1,841 English essays from the written part of the Czech national school-leaving exams between 2015 and 2019. The frequency analysis of the studied lexico-grammatical features was approached in the sense outlined by Halliday (1992) and Hunston and Francis (2000) and realized by AntConc 3.4.4w (Anthony, 2014). The requests were analysed by using an integrated analytical framework combining the CCSARP CODING MANUAL (Blum-Kulka, House, & Kasper, 1989) and TYPOLOGY OF MODIFIERS FOR THE SPEECH ACT OF REQUESTING (Soler, Jordá, & Martínez-Flor, 2005). The results were interpreted in relation to English Grammar Profile, English Vocabulary Profile, Brown Family (C8 tags) and the Czech National Corpus (Křen et al., 2015). The findings reveal prevalence of A1-A2 CEFR level colligations relying on a limited number of verb and adjective lemmas, a wide incorrect pattern variation and preference for patterns which are also the most frequent patterns of their Czech equivalents. The analysis of request constituents shows preference for politeness strategies typical of Czech and limited awareness of face-saving strategies likely to appear in English native speakers’ requests. |
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