You are an English language professor at IFMA
and you are teaching your learners to write
abstracts for academic papers. You asked your
learners to analyze the following model abstract:
Abstract
Phrasal verbs are important for EFL and ESL
education because of their high frequency, but
can be difficult for learners because of their
number and polysemy. While there are a number
of studies on phrasal verbs, the widening focus of
such studies has left a gap between theory and
practical instruction. This study improves upon
previous studies related to teaching phrasal verbs
through cognitive linguistics by combining the
theory of event conflation with corpus-based
research to create a list of phrasal verb particles
and meanings that is concise and yet
comprehensive enough to account for
approximately 95% of common phrasal verb
meanings. It also reports the results of an
experiment in which learners taught with this
particle list improved more on pre-/post-tests of
phrasal verbs than learners that studied a list of
the most common phrasal verbs as whole entities
(p<0.001, d=1.34). Quantitative and qualitative data
presented in this study also indicate that learners
taught with the particle list improved their ability
to conjecture the meanings of novel phrasal verbs
more effectively than learners who studied
common phrasal verbs as whole units.
Key words: Phrasal Verbs, Cognitive Linguistics,
Corpus, Instruction Materials, TEFL, Second
Language Acquisition.
Source: SPRING, Ryan. Teaching Phrasal Verbs More
Efficiently: Using Corpus Studies and Cognitive Linguistics to
Create a Particle List. Advances in Language and Literary
Studies: Volume: 9 Issue: 5. 2018.
Regarding the genre “abstract” and the model
above, choose the correct alternative.