In this state-of-the-art review, we aim to build on Alptekin & Tatar's (2011) article covering
research conducted in Turkey between 2005 and 2009, and survey published research in …

Using data from the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE) and the British National
Corpus (BNC), this article examines what Turkish learners of English know about a set of …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the categories of preposition errors made by
EFL learners of elementary and intermediate proficiency levels by comparing the rate of …

The impact of previously learned knowledge on newly learned knowledge has long been
recognized and named as interference. Interference in language is the influence of a …

The issue of lexical transfer has always been the topic of interest in the studies of Second
Language Acquisition (SLA). Thus far, studies have adopted various taxonomies of lexical …

Prepositions form a hurdle for several EFL learners, Arabs in particular. One major catalyst is
that the preposition systems in English and Arabic rarely correspond to one another. Most …

Translation aims to transmit the original tone of the source text both syntactically and
semantically accurate without losing the intent of a message. However, some syntactic …

English as a second language is widely used in Pakistan, but Pakistani students of ESL
(English as a second language) still face difficulties in writing and speaking English. Errors …

First and foremost, I wish to express gratitude to my supervisor Prof. Dr. Brigitte Halford. I am
indebted to her for showing me respect and support as both her student and assistant over …

Abstracts: Prepositions are unique closed-class grammatical forms that have syntactic and
semantic qualities. They act as vital markers to the structure of a sentence and reveal the …