A study of copula "Be" in English and Turkish Mine Ağdaç; Supervisor: Neil Bratton

Yazar: Katkıda bulunan(lar):Dil: İngilizce Yayın ayrıntıları:Nicosia Cyprus International University 2003Tanım: X, 84 p. tab. 30.5 cmİçerik türü:
  • text
Ortam türü:
  • unmediated
Taşıyıcı türü:
  • volume
Konu(lar):
Eksik içerik
1 BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM
1 Statement of the Problem
3 Purpose of the Study
6 Research Questions
6 Importance of the Study
7 Definition of Terms
12 Outline of the Remaining Chapters
13 REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
13 Contrastive Analysis
17 Universal Grammar
19 Interlanguage
22 Morpheme studies
24 Krashen's "Input hypotheses"
28 METHODOLOGY
28 Data Analysis
29 The copula be as a main verb
29 In English
30 Attributive Complements
30 Identifying Complements -Equative
31 Circumstantial Subjects Complements
32 In Turkish
42 The Present Tense
45 The Past Tense, Inferential and Present Conditional (idi,imiş,ise)
49 The Future
52 The Past Conditional
54 The Inferential Conditional
57 Progressive
60 Passive
63 Negation
68 Interrogative of be
68 Polar Questions
73 Tag Questions
75 WH-Questions (Information Questions )
77 Summary
78 SUMMARY,CONCLUSION, AND RECOMMENDATIONS
78 Summary and Conclusions
79 Recommendations
83 BIBLIOGRAPHY
Özet: ' The use of copula BE in English is one the problematic areas confronting Turkish learners from the very beginning up to advance levels. The objective of this thesis was to determine the reasons why Turkish learners of English leave out the copula BE in many cases. This thesis firstly aims to identify, describe and analyze copula BE as a main verb, progressive and passive in English and Turkish: secondly, find the differences between two languages: and thirdly, discuss the possible errors. Lastly, by the contrastive analysis of two languages enabling teachers to see why Turkish learners of the English leave out BE in certain places and let them to understand the errors and determined effective teaching strategies in order to overcome difficulties caused while using the copula be.'
Materyal türü: Thesis

Includes bibliography (83-84 p.)

' The use of copula BE in English is one the problematic areas confronting Turkish learners from the very beginning up to advance levels. The objective of this thesis was to determine the reasons why Turkish learners of English leave out the copula BE in many cases. This thesis firstly aims to identify, describe and analyze copula BE as a main verb, progressive and passive in English and Turkish: secondly, find the differences between two languages: and thirdly, discuss the possible errors. Lastly, by the contrastive analysis of two languages enabling teachers to see why Turkish learners of the English leave out BE in certain places and let them to understand the errors and determined effective teaching strategies in order to overcome difficulties caused while using the copula be.'

1 BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM

1 Statement of the Problem

3 Purpose of the Study

6 Research Questions

6 Importance of the Study

7 Definition of Terms

12 Outline of the Remaining Chapters

13 REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

13 Contrastive Analysis

17 Universal Grammar

19 Interlanguage

22 Morpheme studies

24 Krashen's "Input hypotheses"

28 METHODOLOGY

28 Data Analysis

29 The copula be as a main verb

29 In English

30 Attributive Complements

30 Identifying Complements -Equative

31 Circumstantial Subjects Complements

32 In Turkish

42 The Present Tense

45 The Past Tense, Inferential and Present Conditional (idi,imiş,ise)

49 The Future

52 The Past Conditional

54 The Inferential Conditional

57 Progressive

60 Passive

63 Negation

68 Interrogative of be

68 Polar Questions

73 Tag Questions

75 WH-Questions (Information Questions )

77 Summary

78 SUMMARY,CONCLUSION, AND RECOMMENDATIONS

78 Summary and Conclusions

79 Recommendations

83 BIBLIOGRAPHY

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