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1、written in chinese english learners to explore the conjunction of the corpus analysis 英语论文 Written in Chinese English learners to explore the conjunction of the corpus analysisPaper Network: Paper Keywords: English written language corpus conjunction Abstract: building a coherent English discourse c

2、onnectives is an important means of this method to explore the use of corpus written Chinese learners of English usage in conjunction results showed that: First, the learners use connectives significantly more than native speakers second, learners and native speakers in the choice of words tend to h

3、ave greater similarity, the three learners in conjunction with the existence of the concept of fuzzy semantic, syntactic and stylistic knowledge, lack of awareness is weak. interlanguage development characteristics, and negative transfer of mother tongue is the main cause of the formation of the abo

4、ve problems. Chapter is to achieve smooth convergence, an important way to clear logic as a component of convergence, the main function is to connect the words in the chapters that dominant logic by connecting words people can understand the semantic links between sentences, or even by logically be

5、expected from the preceding sentence after the sentence semantics. 1 (P92) scholars generally believe that the correct and rational use of conjunctions can significantly enhance the coherence and clarity of the article, the reader grasp the authors easy writing ideas to improve the reader to underst

6、and chapter efficiency, so as to achieve the purpose of effective communication, however, because the large number of English conjunctions, usage and more complex meaning and become one of the major difficulties of learners. In this paper, comparative interlanguage corpus research methods to investi

7、gate Chinese learners of English written in conjunction usage, analyze problems, look forward to improving the teaching of English provides reference data. I. Background Since the 1980s, since the rapid development of computer corpora in order to better understand and describe the language offers gr

8、eat potential and possibilities. A large number of domestic research about convergence, but the method used to connect words to corpora special contrast, quantitative studies are rare, researchers have mainly Luo a, 2 (P59-62), Zhao Wei Bin, 3 (P72-76) Pan Fan 4 (P157-162) and Mo Tsang. 5 (P45-50) v

9、iew of the above studies can be found: first, to similar or the same group for the study, the findings do not coincide. Most scholars believe that, relative to the native author, the Chinese learners in general there is too much tendency to connect words with English, Chinese learners have found tha

10、t the words used in the majority of connections showed too little to use trends on the second, compared to the matching corpus to be further improved, as Luo Yi On the limitations of their study time said, should enhance the corpus of the matching, comparative analysis of the corpus of the match, th

11、e higher the results will speak for themselves. 2 corpus Granger experts have pointed out, the investigation of the parallel corpus used to be in the learners learning phase, the task type of discourse genre and so comparable, comparable corpus is the basis for comparative analysis, otherwise it wil

12、l directly affect the conclusions convincing. 6 (P17-20) Second, the study design 1. Corpus collection The corpus used to investigate the three, by a British university thesis Master of Applied Linguistics composition courses, including Language Planning, Language Testing, Second Language Acquisitio

13、n, Language Teaching Theory and Practice. End of the course, teachers in accordance with the standard requirements for all students (thesis topic, number of words to complete each course and other papers. Gatherer papers classified according to the nationality of the learner, learner corpus assemble

14、d in China (98 178 words, native speakers corpus ( 94231 words and international learner corpus (97,183 words International learner who is from Japan, Korea, Pakistan, Norway, Denmark, Greece, Italy and other countries, learners should be said, more than in the learners learning corpus stage writing

15、 task , discourse genre, length of the article have a high level of matching. 2. Research questions This study attempts to answer are: Chinese learners in the general tendency to use words to connect are significantly different from the native speakers; Chinese learners of the most frequently used c

16、onjunctions which; than native speakers, learning tend too much, too little use of what conjunctions; Chinese learners use in conjunction with what the main problems. 3. Conjunction scale Halliday and Hasans classification of connected word has been recognized as a higher authority. Celce-Murcia and

17、 Larsen-Freeman of Halliday and Hasans classification has been simplified in this study used Celce-Murcia and Larsen-Freemans classification 7, minor adjustments on this basis, the formation of scale investigation of the conjunction. 4. Research procedures Use of corpus analysis software Wordsmith T

18、ools 4.0 and Social Sciences statistical software SPSS for corpus processing and data analysis. Concrete steps are as follows: the Wordlist run Wordsmith Tools 4.0 features, statistics, three corpus of information, the run Wordsmith Tools 4.0 Concord function to retrieve the connection of each corpu

19、s in the frequency of words and their context information, and then by-case examination to exclude irrelevant evidence. to then, for example, it contains more than one meaning, then the use of artificial means to identify, screening, calculate the standard connectives frequency per 100,000 words in

20、the frequency appears to facilitate the statistics, contrast, run SPSS in conjunction Chi-Square test corpus in different frequency differences. Third, the results and analysis 1. The results (A general tendency Words in the investigation of various types of connections, the same with native speaker

21、s, most Chinese learners use connectives to indicate the relationship between addition, the use of the words the proportion of nearly half of the total connections, the Chi-Square test, x 2 = 19.9709, p = 0.000 <0.05, shows learners and native speakers in conjunction with the existence of signifi

22、cant differences in frequency, the number of learners conjunction with significantly more than native speakers. (2 most frequently used conjunctions Chinese learners and native speakers of the two corpora used in conjunction slightly different order, but the learners most frequently used words in th

23、e top 10 in eight native speakers use the word in the first 10 , that connect learners and native speakers in the choice of words have great similarity, both tend to use also, for example / instance, however, then, therefore, in addition, first (ly) / first of all , thus connecting these eight words

24、, this survey a total of 68 conjunctions, frequency of use among the top 10 words about one-seventh of the total survey, however, their frequency of use was as high as the actual terms of the total survey two-thirds or more (65.6% and 73.3%), indicating that both native speakers, or the Chinese lear

25、ners, they are very dependent on writing in connection with a small part of the prompt words to the readers before and after the statement, between the content the logical link, in order to guide the reader interpret the information content of the article and the intention of writing with the findin

26、gs of Luo a difference is that this study data show that native speakers tend to use more than a few learners to several connectives, which also ranked first in the word of the relative frequency of use is as high as 26.7%, the reason to do a little later to discuss. (3 high and low frequency conjun

27、ctions The practice of drawing paper Qiufang 8 (P150-156), with 10 million words for the unit, and then compares each connected words appear in the two corpora standard frequency if the frequency difference of 10 or less, then ignored. The statistics, first (ly), second (ly), third (ly), fourth (ly)

28、, that is, in addition, moreover in 10 words in the Chinese learner corpus in the frequency higher than native speakers, also, however, similarly, and in turn 4 expressions. frequency of use than the latter. Whether it is from the number of words, or from the use of the frequency point of view, lear

29、ners tend to use the high side of the connection terms less than the tendency is more obvious. 2. Analysis and Discussion Corpus retrieval and data interpretation shows that the Chinese written language learners to connect the words used significantly more than native speakers. More what is the Chin

30、ese learners using conjunctions unique personality traits, or the second language learner interlanguage development process there common problems? For this reason, I join the international learner corpus to be in control, expect to be able to help describe the problem. As noted above, the corpus of

31、the sample of learners from different countries, Master thesis composition, from a certain sense, they are representatives of many second language learners. search found international learners use connectives standard frequency is very close to Chinese learners (1370 and 1400, Chinese learners tend

32、to use more words in the first 10 connections, 9 and consistent with international learners, and both more and less use of the word in the average standard rate is also very similar (62 and 67. In view of this, the whole situation, it can be said is the tendency of excessive use of conjunctions seco

33、nd language development of learner interlanguage common, it is difficult to avoid the non-native features, this development is not shown because of the commonality of language learners appear very different background and the same time, although both excessive use of conjunctions almost the same, but some specific words