Tesis de Maestría
The addition of the determiner “a” out of context
Fecha
1969-12-31Autor
Ramírez Zuñiga, Karla Del Rocio
Institución
Resumen
This paper explores a syntactical error which was found among Mexican learners of
English belonging to a Technological University: the addition of the determiner “a” out of
context. Specifically, before verbs in simple present and present continuous. The tag “out of
context” is given due to the lack of the structure within the statements posited by authors
such as Master and Larsen-Freeman. Furthermore, it attempts to deal with the interpretation
students give to this addition and what is the special meaning they could give to it. The
main objective of this paper is to highlight the error, analyze it and understand it, so that in
further research, the researcher would be able to find the possible cause of this error. The
paper also highlights the importance of the context and provides some examples of articles’
use with regards to Japanese learners.