Abstract

This study investigated the impact of using corpus-based activities on learning certain phrasal-prepositional verbs among Saudi EFL learners. It aimed to understand whether six hours of instruction using corpus-based activities were effective in teaching the forms of forty phrasal-prepositional verbs, enabled the participants to understand the metaphorical meaning of the prepositional verbs specified, and facilitated the accurate construction of the forms of the verbs while paraphrasing the sentences. The study used an indirect method comprising corpus-based activities that were conducted over six hours. These activities were elicited from the Corpus of Contemporary American English and included forty phrasal-prepositional verbs. The findings revealed that six hours of instruction using corpus-based activities had a positive effect on the form and use of phrasal-prepositional verbs among the Saudi EFL learners. It also presented significant results in relation to the students’ understanding of the metaphorical meaning of the phrasal-prepositional verbs used.