A Corpus-Driven Investigation of Chinese English Learners' Performance of Verb-Noun Collocation: A Case Study of "Ability"

Autor/in	Xia, Lixin
Titel	A Corpus-Driven Investigation of Chinese English Learners' Performance of Verb-Noun Collocation: A Case Study of "Ability"
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 6 (2013) 8, S.119-124 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Case Studies; Computational Linguistics; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Native Speakers; Asians; Phrase Structure; Verbs; Nouns; Contrastive Linguistics; Foreign Countries; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Muttersprachler; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Phrasenstruktur; Kontrastive Linguistik; Ausland
Abstract	The paper makes a contrastive study on the performance of verb-noun collocation given by Chinese EFL learners based on the CLEC, ICLE and BNC. First, all the concordance lines with the token "ability" in the CLEC were collected and analyzed. Then, they were tagged manually in order to sort out the sentences in the verb-noun collocation structure. After that, a contrast was made between the data in the three corpora. The study found that there was a distinct gap between the use of verb-noun collocation between English native speakers and Chinese EFL learners, and that Chinese EFL learners also gave less satisfactory performance in verb-noun collocation in terms of correctness and appropriateness. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01