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摘要：The research findings are helpful to correct themistakes and improper habits of spatial prepositions used by Chinese learners, and thereforethis study can improve English communication and guide the English teaching for ChineseEFL learners. It is full of empirical and realistic value.

ond language (L2) prepositions bySpanish English learners; to investigate the role of prototypes in such transfer. The resultsshowed that the prototypes were clear established for prepositions in，on，over and sobre, butthose were not for at and en; the hypothesis was only partially confirmed because positivetransfer occurred in both cases whether there was correspondence between the L1 and the L2prepositional prototypical concepts; strong negative transfer also occurred when it was chosenin cases where at and over should be the right answers．
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Chapter 3 Research Methodology ......... 8
3.1 Research Questions .... 8
3.2 Research Design......... 8
3.2.1 Corpus ........ 8
3.2.2 Data Collection and Analysis Procedures ...... 12
3.2.3 Error Analysis Theory...... 20
3.2.4 Data Collection and Analysis Procedures ...... 21
Chapter 4 Analysis and Discussion.... 25
4.1 The Use of Preposition IN, ON, AT....... 25
4.1.1 The Use of Preposition IN...... 25
4.1.2 The Use of Preposition ON .... 27
4.1.3 The Use of Preposition AT..... 29
4.2 Discussion and Analysis of Preposition Errors ........ 31
4.2.1 Data Analysis of Preposition Errors......... 32
4.2.2 Error Analysis of Prepositions ..... 35
Chapter 5 Conclusions ........ 39
5.1 Findings of the Study ..... 39
5.2 Pedagogical Implications ..... 39
5.3 Limitations and Suggestions ...... 40

Chapter 4 Analysis and Discussion

4.1 The Use of Preposition IN, ON, AT
As the most commonly used prepositions, IN, ON, AT can represent the generalinformation of prepositions use to some extent. In this section, the use of IN, ON, AT arediscussed separately, including its use frequency and semantic meanings category. Firstly, we statistic the relevant data in SWECCL and COCA to get the overalldifferences of use frequency of preposition IN. And then, we statistic the data of eachsemantic meanings and discuss the differences of use frequency in detail. Table 4.1 represents the standard frequency of IN in SWECCL and COCA. It shows thatChinese college students use more preposition IN than native speakers. Chi-square test（P＜0.01）indicated that there are very significant differences in two sets of data. The results fromthe present study indicated that some prepositions, like IN, ON, BESIDES, are overused byChinese college students, but some other prepositions are underused, such as under. The studyfurther proved that they use more preposition IN than native speakers.
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Conclusion

5.1 Findings of the StudyThis paper researched the use of spatial prepositions IN, ON, AT committed by Chinesecollege students based on corpus and cognition frame. Based on the integration of qualitativeand quantitative methodologies, the study collected the data from SWECCL and COCA, andmade a comparative analysis. The author draws the following conclusions: (1) Compared withEnglish native speakers, Chinese college students overuse the original meanings ofpreposition IN and ON, but underuse the original meanings of preposition AT. (2) Comparedwith English native speakers, Chinese college students overuse the prepositions’ simplemetaphor meanings and some fixed phrases, but the use lacks diversities. (3) Compared withEnglish native speak本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。