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Download full textEtengeneng, Ngasu Betek – World Journal of Education, 2022
Acquisition patterns of irregular verbs by Second and Foreign Language learners of English in Cameroon present remarkable peculiarities that emanate from the country's unique linguistic identity, where French, English and a multiplicity of local languages are spoken. Following on a previous study (see Ngasu Betek 2020) this study documents these…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
Mbibeh, Louis – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
The complexity of the linguistic environment in Cameroon raises the question of context and its role in the acquisition of another language. This paper draws a dichotomy between learners in such contexts considered rural and those regarded as urban or cosmopolitan. Using the irregular verb as a yardstick, an evaluation of the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, Second Language Learning, Verbs, Elementary School Students
Epoge, Napoleon – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The meaning of some phrasal verbs can be guessed from the meanings of the parts (to sit down = sit + down, run after = run + after) and the meaning of some others have to be learned (to put up (a visitor) = accommodate, to hold up = cause delay or try to rob someone) due to their syntactic and semantic complexities. In this regard, the syntactic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure
Direct linkAllison, Sean David – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Makary Kotoko (MK), a Central Chadic B language, is spoken in the north of Cameroon just south of Lake Chad. Published works on MK to date include about a dozen articles on different aspects of the grammar of the language, primarily by H. Tourneux. The present work, which is based on a substantial corpus of recorded texts, is a systematic…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Research, African Languages, Morphology (Languages)
Bobda, Augustin Simo – World Englishes, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to study the strategies used by Cameroonians and Nigerians to cope with the notorious complexity of English word stress. Stress placement is similar among these two groups, but differs significantly from what obtains in traditional native English speech, received pronunciation (RP), for example. Some of the stress…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Verbs, Foreign Countries, Phonology
Nkemleke, Daniel – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2007
This contribution investigates the frequency patterns of the modal verbs as they occur in the one-million-word corpus of Cameroon written English. An analysis of dominant senses of some of the modals is also attempted. I have used results and statistical figures from British and American English (as reported in studies such as Biber et al. 1999…
Descriptors: Verbs, Foreign Countries, North American English, Language Usage
