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A Comparison of Using Three Different Types of Cues: Elaborated Context, Semantic Frames and Meaning Chains, in Disambiguating Polysemous Verbs

كارشناسي ارشد

آموزش زبان انگليسي

دانشگاه پيام نور

1391

28/10/1391

بسيار خوب

ايرواني، حسن

همتي، فاطمه

87-75ص

Elaborated Context، Semantic Frames ، Meaning Chains، Disambiguating Polysemous، Cues

دلدار قاسمي، معصومه , عنوان , دانشگاه پيام نور/ تهران جنوب

As polysemy is encountered frequently in English as foreign language. FL learners’ ability to disambiguate polysemous verbs becomes critical to their comprehension in the target language. This thesis, accordingly, investigated how Iranian EFL learners achieved comprehension of English polysemous verbs by using three different types of cues: (1) elaborated context, (2) semantic frames, and (3) meaning chains. Participants were 49 university students in Zahedan who were randomly assigned to four conditions, the three cue conditions and a control no-cue condition. After reading the cues, participants completed a translation and a multiple-choice task and rated their confidence in their answers. The Results indicated that when only accuracy was taken into account and when accuracy and confidence ratings were jointly examined, only the elaborated context cue elicited significantly better performance than the control condition as measured in the multiple-choice task. As for the translation task, none of the three experimental cues generated significantly better results than the no-cue condition

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW. CHAPTER THREE: METHOD. CHAPTER FOUR: RESULTS. CHAPTER FIVE: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION

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