Getting to grips with phrasal verbs

Cowie, Anthony Paul

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“…Although they consist of more than one word, phrasal verbs are indisputably regarded as single units like other one-word lexical items (Cappelle et al, 2010). Nevertheless, the idiomaticity and polysemous nature of phrasal verbs have greatly confounded EFL learners and thus become a major source of learning difficulty in the EFL classroom (Armstrong, 2004; Cornell, 1985; Cowie, 1993; McArthur, 1989; Moon, 1997; Neagu, 2007). Earlier studies have found that learners employed the strategy of avoidance to cope with the learning of phrasal verbs (Dagut and Laufer, 1985; Hulstijn and Marchena, 1989; Laufer and Eliasson, 1993; Liao and Fukuya, 2004).…”

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Making Sense of Out Phrasal Verbs: the Instruction of Out Senses

Liao

2019

RELC Journal

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The issue of phrasal verb learning has caused much discussion and attracted vigorous investigation. Inspired by the theory of conceptual metaphor, a pedagogical experiment was conducted to investigate whether an approach focussing on sense extension of particle out in terms of conceptual metaphors can enhance the learning of phrasal verbs containing out. One control group was instructed with general reading materials embedded with various phrasal verbs, and two experimental groups with self-constructed lessons, in which six sense types of out were identified and corresponding phrasal verbs were selected, and in addition, an L1 lexical item was employed to illustrate the mechanism of metaphorical extension for one experimental group. The result showed that learners receiving a cognitive inspired approach to instruction achieved significantly better learning outcomes than those receiving the traditional approach, not only on taught items but also on untaught items. However, the use of L1 lexical items to illustrate sense extension was not as effective as expected in boosting the learning of out-phrasal verbs . It was concluded by discussing the benefit of the proposed approach to phrasal verb instruction and, more importantly, the need of teaching materials providing more profound understanding of phrasal verbs so as to facilitate phrasal verb learning.

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Making Sense of Out Phrasal Verbs: the Instruction of Out Senses

Liao

2019

RELC Journal

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“…The collocation restriction strength is a suitable tool for our model because the need to supply information regarding the PVs’ collocates is stressed in the literature (Cowie, , p. 41). If the collocational information is missing, the learning of a PV is incomplete.…”

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A Bi‐Axis Model for Profiling English Phrasal Verbs for Pedagogic Purposes

2016

TESOL Quarterly

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“…Wright (1996), on the other hand, has been used as a theoretical model for Arabic multi-word verbs. Cowie (1993) is used as a practical model for analyzing English verbs as well as Arabic verbs.…”

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“…While Wright (1996) is also used as a theoretical model for analyzing Arabic multi-word verbs in Mahfuz's Arabic novel (Palace of Desire) [qasr alshawq]. Furthermore, Cowie (1993) is used as a practical model for multi-word verbs analysis in both languages.…”

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Towards A syntactic Analysis of English and Arabic Multi-Word Verbs in Selected Literary Works: A Contrastive Study

2022

HNSJ

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The current study is concerned with a linguistic contrastive analysis of one specific feature of grammar and vocabulary in both English and Arabic languages, which is a combination of lexical verbs with adverbial and/or prepositional particle(s), which is commonly known as multi-word verbs in John Steinbeck's English novel (East of Eden) (1952) and Naguib Mahfuz's Arabic novel (Palace of Desire) [Qasr alshawq] (1957).Furthermore, the study seeks to demonstrate that there are essential similarties and differences between English and Arabic multi-word verbs. Such parallels and differences are examined in depth through a theoretical comparison of these combinations in both languages, as well as an analysis of the two novels mentioned above.The current study is divided into five sections: It begins with an introduction that provides an explanation to the concept of multi-word verbs in both languages, followed by the objectives, research question, hypothesis, techniques, limitations of the study, and importance of the study. The second section is devoted to the theoretical foundations of multi-word verbs in English and Arabic, respectively. It explains that English multi-word verb is a combination of two or three elements (verb + adverb, verb + preposition, and verb + adverb + preposition) that works as a single unit of meaning in the sense that its meaning cannot be deduced from the sum of its individual components' meanings. The syntactic features of such combinations include characteristics such as adverbial or prepositional particles that often combine with verbs.The third section is intended to outline the methods used in data analysis, while the fourth section is an examination of the target verbs in the English novel and Arabic novel previously mentioned. Finally, in section 5, the findings and the results are revealed. The current data analysis employs Quirk et al. (1985) and Celce-Murcia and Larsen-Freeman (1999) as a theoretical model for the examination of English multi-word verbs in Steinbeck's English novel (East of Eden). While Wright (1996) is also used as a theoretical model for analyzing Arabic multi-word verbs in Mahfuz's Arabic novel (Palace of Desire) [qasr alshawq]. Furthermore, Cowie (1993) is used as a practical model for multi-word verbs analysis in both languages.

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Getting to grips with phrasal verbs

Abstract: An account of a problematic area of grammar and usage, in relation to the writer's Second Edition of the ‘Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs’

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Making Sense of Out Phrasal Verbs: the Instruction of Out Senses

Making Sense of Out Phrasal Verbs: the Instruction of Out Senses

A Bi‐Axis Model for Profiling English Phrasal Verbs for Pedagogic Purposes

Towards A syntactic Analysis of English and Arabic Multi-Word Verbs in Selected Literary Works: A Contrastive Study

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