Instructors’ Awareness of the Syntactic and Morphological Differences between British and American English

Year 2019, Volume: 3 Issue: 6, 116 - 127, 17.08.2019

Saliha Toscu

https://doi.org/10.31458/iejes.537842

Cited By: 3

Abstract

This study
explores Turkish English as a foreign language (EFL) instructors’ awareness of
the syntactic and morphological variation in British English (BrE) and American
English (AmE). The data were collected through a survey which was administered
to 38 EFL instructors working at preparatory schools of different universities.
The participants were asked to analyze 49 sentence-pairs in the survey to
decide whether given sentences were correct or incorrect. The results indicated
a) that the participants were better at recognizing the morphology and syntax
of BrE than AmE, b) that of all the participants, the ones who were exposed to
both varieties were better at recognizing the different uses of the syntactic
and morphological forms in BrE and AmE than the ones exposing to the forms only
in one variety, c) that the departments the participants graduated from did not
have an impact on the recognition of the differences between BrE and AmE in
syntax and morphology. 

Keywords

morphology , syntax , British English , American English

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