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Errors in the use of articles in Czech advanced learner English
Pazderová, Tereza ; Gráf, Tomáš (advisor) ; Vašků, Kateřina (referee)
The thesis analyses errors in the use of articles in advanced learner English and the aim is to determine the type of nominal reference which is the most problematic to L1 Czech speakers. The first part deals with the classification of article and reference types. The research draws its data from the learner corpus LINDSEI_CZ, which consists of 50 15-minute interviews, the speakers of which demonstrated quite a wide span of proficiency levels. The 265 errors found in the corpus were tagged and subsequently categorized according to the forms of the articles and types of reference. The research revealed that the most error-prone area of nominal reference is the non-generic, indefinite type. The majority of the errors consisted in the complete omission of the article, a feature which may be assigned to L1 transfer. However, another problematic area was revealed to be connected to the generic reference, in the case of which the tendency of the speakers was to overuse the definite article. These results may serve as a starting point for further research, which would provide answers to the questions this study could not answer, and, perhaps, offer more pedagogical implications. Keywords: learner language, spoken language, error analysis, articles, reference
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