30.3293, Diss: Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Serap Atasever Belli: ''An Analysis of Factive Cognitive Verb Complementation Patterns Used by ELT Students''

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Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 12:18:02
From: Serap Atasever Belli [serapataseverr at hotmail.com]
Subject: An Analysis of Factive Cognitive Verb Complementation Patterns Used by ELT Students

 
Institution: Anadolu University 
Program: English Language Teaching 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2019 

Author: Serap Atasever Belli

Dissertation Title: An Analysis of Factive Cognitive Verb Complementation
Patterns Used by ELT Students 

Dissertation URL:  https://tez.yok.gov.tr/UlusalTezMerkezi/TezGoster?key=Mir2lXQK1dkmQ9Ige3PZbg9QMBPZ23HbQLv3xSW9B095Si9RrGN6-wAptZEF1Qz9

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Dissertation Director(s):
İlknur KEÇİK

Dissertation Abstract:

The current research aimed to explore Turkish L2 learners’ receptive and
productive knowledge of factive cognitive verb complementation in terms of
complementation patterns and senses. 

For the purposes of the research, embedded mixed- methods research design was
adopted by using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Participants of
the study consisted of 269 Turkish learners of English majoring in ELT
program. Data were collected through four types of tests developed based on
Valency Dictionary of English (Herbst, Heath, Roe, and Götz, 2004) to measure
L2 learners’ state of knowledge through Grammaticality Judgment Test and
Fill-in-the Blank Test and to reveal choices of patterns and senses through
Sentence Completion Test and Free- Production Test based on extracts from
Corpus of Contemporary American English. Data were analyzed qualitatively and
quantitatively through the identification of patterns and senses, calculation
of raw and mean scores and statistical tests. 

The results of the study yielded the significant effect of word-level on L2
learners’ recognition and production of verb complementation. The correct
choices of L2 learners yielded the use of the verbs in very restricted sense
with limited types of patterns (i.e. predominantly noun phrases). The
incorrect choices included the wrong choices of various patterns especially
prepositional phrases (for/about/of/from Noun Phrases/V-ing) with regret.
Besides, various problems were observed such as the mismatch between the
complementation pattern and verb sense, incorrect verb sense use and the
problematic use of wh-CL complementation pattern. This study is hoped to
provide valuable insights into L2 learners’ interlanguage development through
their correct, incorrect and problematic uses of verb complementation.




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