Use of English prepositions in L2 oral production

How acquisition and use of prepositions in both first and second language studies is an enigma (Celce-Murcia, & Larsen-Freeman 1999; Boers & Demecheleer, 1998; Evans & Tyler, 2004). This study intends to examine the frequency of use of prepositions between native speakers of English and Turkish teachers of English. An elicitation task was used to record the oral production. A frog story, a picture-story book which has been often used in child language learning studies, was employed as an elicitation task. The study involved 11 participants, Turkish Teachers of English and native speakers of English. This paper attempted to find answers to: (1) whether there is a significant difference in using prepositions according to frequency of use of prepositions and (2) use of various verbs. The results show that there was a significant difference between the two groups in terms of frequency of use of prepositions and use of various verbs