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- Title
Phrasal verbs as learning material in Business English courses for students majoring in Linguistics.
- Authors
Litvinov, Alexander V.; Burikova, Svetlana A.; Khramchenko, Dmitry S.
- Abstract
This paper enlightens the existing views of the nature of English phrasal verbs and their theoretical grounding in Russian and English linguistics. Particular attention is paid to phrasal verbs teaching requirements as part of business English courses for students majoring in linguistics. The authors see phrasal verbs as a specific part of business communication that needs thorough consideration due to a disparity in the integrated semantics of a verb combined with its postpositive and the correspondent language components in a student's mother tongue. Therefore mere training of phrasal verbs like any other category of words is insufficient. In order to assimilate these language units into students' communicative competence it is necessary to disclose to them the underlying semantic structure which results in these verbs' synergistic meanings. The authors provide some classifications by modern linguists to distinguish the difficulties of learning phrasal verbs by non-native speakers. The article also examines some aspects of business English related to the issue. In conclusion the article states the conditions for the mastery of phrasal verbs. This approach is asserted by the authors as the most efficient method of teaching. Students' awareness of these basics of phrasal verbs will help them avoid communicative irrelevances in dealing with foreign partners.
- Subjects
BUSINESS English education; BUSINESS English education in universities &; colleges; VERB phrases; ENGLISH language -- Verb; SEMANTICS
- Publication
TLC Journal, 2017, Vol 1, Issue 4, p91
- ISSN
2520-2073
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.29366/2017tlc.1.4.6