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Textbook Representation of Prepositions

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  • Jayakaran Mukundan
  • Norwati Roslim

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This article presents a corpus-based investigation on English prepositions which are presented in three English language textbooks used by lower secondary schools in Malaysia. The aims were to find out the distributions of prepositions, its frequency order in comparison with the British National Corpus (BNC) and the differences in terms of their co-occurrence with other parts of speech. The findings showed that there is a difference between the textbook corpus and the BNC in terms of the frequency order of certain prepositions and there are similarities and differences in terms of their co-occurrence with other parts of speech. This study indicates the textbook corpus is essential in the study of prepositions and the results can guide teachers in deciding how best to supplement the text with activities that will give learners exposure to target grammar item that is not sufficiently presented in the textbook.

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  • Jayakaran Mukundan & Norwati Roslim, 2009. "Textbook Representation of Prepositions," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 2(4), pages 1-13, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:eltjnl:v:2:y:2009:i:4:p:13
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    1. Abdul Latef bin Alhadri* & Muhamad Rozaimi bin Ramle, 2018. "A Critical Analysis of Prophetic Narrations Mentioned in KAFA JAKIM’s‘ Aq?dah Textbooks," The Journal of Social Sciences Research, Academic Research Publishing Group, pages 1264-1271:6.
    2. Jayakaran Mukundan & Khairil Anuar bin Saadullah & Razalina binti Ismail & Nur Hairunnisa binti Jusoh Zasenawi, 2013. "Malaysian ESL Students’ Syntactic Accuracy in the Usage of English Modal Verbs in Argumentative Writing," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 6(12), pages 1-98, December.
    3. Norwati Roslim & Jayakaran Mukundan, 2011. "An Overview of Corpus Linguistics Studies on Prepositions," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 4(2), pages 125-125, June.
    4. Mohamed Ismail bin Abdul Kader & Neda Begi & Reza Vaseghi, 2013. "A Corpus-Based Study of Malaysian ESL Learners’ Use of Modals in Argumentative Compositions," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 6(9), pages 146-146, September.
    5. Mia Emily Abdul Rahim & Emma Marini Abdul Rahim & Chia Han Ning, 2013. "Distribution of Articles in Written Composition among Malaysian ESL Learners," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 6(10), pages 149-149, October.

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