Characteristics of Pronoun "Who and Its Concordance" in Chinese College Students' English Narrative Writing from the Perspective of Corpus-Based Method -- A Case Study of Series of Compositions of "The Most Unforgettable Person I Ever Know"

Autor/in	Li, Xi-ping
Titel	Characteristics of Pronoun "Who and Its Concordance" in Chinese College Students' English Narrative Writing from the Perspective of Corpus-Based Method -- A Case Study of Series of Compositions of "The Most Unforgettable Person I Ever Know"
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 14 (2021) 4, S.55-65 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Form Classes (Languages); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Writing (Composition); Writing Improvement; Contrastive Linguistics; College Students; Writing Evaluation; Foreign Countries; Computational Linguistics; Sentence Structure; Case Studies; Language Usage; Writing Instruction; Grammar; Computer Software; Word Frequency; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analytischer Sprachbau; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Schreibübung; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Collegestudent; Ausland; Computerlinguistik; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Sprachgebrauch; Schreibunterricht; Grammatik; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit
Abstract	Writing is one of productive skills and a way of conveying information considered to be the most complex and the most challenging skill for EFL English learners to acquire, hence many studies have been conducted on the revelation of the characteristic of writings of EFL learners and how to improve them. Among them, pronoun study has attracted extensive interest and become a hot spot in the second language acquisition and contrastive linguistics. Taking a series of compositions of "The most unforgettable person I ever know" as subject, this study is devoted to reveal the characteristics of "who and its concordance" in Chinese college students` English narrative writing from the perspective of corpus-based method. Result of contrastive analysis of writing from 630 college students of 3 colleges in the past 6 years shows: 1) As a whole, WIC can be regarded as common words for Chinese college students but the distribution of individual word is relatively disproportionate-"who" attracts far more attention while the other 4 words attract little or no attention. 2) In terms of sentence type, the distribution of the 5 types is imbalance with too little use of adverbial clause and too much of attributive clauses. In addition, the learners are used to utilizing simple and identical sentence structure and some of them are highly repetitive. 3) The use frequency of WIC of individual student shows that the majority numbers of learners have formed the habit of using them to depict interpersonal relationship and their distribution is unbalanced too. 4) As to the clusters, the learners have formed the habit of preference use of "who" as a relative pronoun above all. And some clusters are highly identical and simple. 5) To sum up, the majority of learners in this study can employ WIC consciously in their writing, but their usages are confined to simple words and structures. Therefore, the learner`s comprehensive competence of integrated employment of WIC should be improved. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01