An investigation of the use and mis-use of preposition by ESL university learners in their written assignment / Fazlinda Hamzah and Mohd Azlan Shah Sharifudin

• Main Authors: Hamzah, Fazlinda, Sharifudin, Mohd Azlan Shah
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Mara Cawangan Pulau Pinang 2017
• Subjects: English language; Higher Education; Research
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29812/1/29812.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29812/; https://ejssh.uitm.edu.my/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Mara

Studies have shown that learning prepositions is among the hardest for second language learners and this is especially true for learners of English. This study sought to analyse the errors related to the target prepositions ‘in’, ‘on’ and ‘at’ in English essays written by first year Centre for Langu...