Assessment Of Human Competences In English-Language Noun Phrases Use

Abstract.

ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN COMPETENCES IN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NOUN PHRASES USE

Nataliia Lazebna

Department of Theory and Practice of Translation, National University “Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic”, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.

Abstract

Background: The research focuses on human competences in English-language noun phrases use. The relevance of the study encompasses not only an isolated concern about nouns and their role in the English-language knowledge, but also focuses on morphological and syntactic functions, which noun phrases perform. Both, Western and Eastern researchers analyzed the given theme in their spe¬cific social and cultural contexts. Unlike native speakers, EFL speakers use noun phrases for nomination, predominantly.

Purpose: The purpose of the analysis is to consider the role, which noun phrases play in the English language acquisition by non-native speakers.

Results: According to data obtained from the participants, the noun as an object is the most wide-spread function in the sentence. The subject follows this function and the nouns identified as an adjunct are the least used group. For EFL students, nouns did not represent a nucleus of the sentence, rather, they related it to their syntactic function.

Discussion: the role of nomination is dominant in the English language use. According to the results of studies obtained, descriptive functions of noun phrases, their functionality as language re-striction tool were preferred for EFL students.

Keywords: noun phrases, morphological awareness, syntactic function, speech patterns.

Vitae

Nataliia Lazebna is PhD in Philology, Associate Professor. Her areas of research interests include discourse studies, terminology, computational linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and text lin-guistics.

Correspondence: natalialazebnaya@gmail.com

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