Prepositions: Learning Difficulties of a Semantically-Oriented Part of Speech
Ibrahem Muhammed Ali Mustafa
Department of Translation, College of Arts. University of Tikrit
Hashim Saadoon Saleem Alnuaimi
Department of English , College of Education for Humanities, University of Tikrit
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.3.1.6
Keywords: - prepositions - semantic features - parts of speech
Abstract
The learners of English mostly face difficulties in selecting the right preposition for a sentence in speech and in writing. The wrong choice of preposition could occasionally be ascribed to interference and overlap caused between the mother tongue and the target language. One more difficulty may emerge when a single preposition may possibly have more than one semantic use. It is hypothesized that the linguistic differences between English and Arabic could be the reason behind impeding the learners of doing well in the target language. The learners, therefore, may unconsciously covey the Arabic linguistic habits to English although the syntactic and semantic characteristics between the two languages are totally different. The researchers
