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Direct linkTang, Mengmeng – Cogent Education, 2020
English and Chinese have typological differences in finiteness. English has morphological finite and nonfinite distinction, whereas Chinese has no morphological finiteness, and multiple verbs in a clause appear in the form of bare verbs with optional aspectual morphemes, such as the perfective morpheme "le". The current study explores…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Classification
Download full textChen, Jingwen – English Language Teaching, 2017
"Although" is a frequently used subordinating conjunction in English. However, non-nativeness is often observed in Chinese EFL learners' "although" output during pedagogical practice. This paper aims at exploring the characteristics of Chinese EFL learners' "although" employment in Chinese EFL learners' writing. The…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Xia, Lixin – English Language Teaching, 2012
The paper discusses the infinitive errors made by Chinese college students. From the CLEC, all infinitive errors tagged as [vp5] are collected, and then the general distribution of the errors among 4 groups of college students is shown. Moreover, these errors are classified into 12 categories according to the characteristics of the usage. After…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Duan, Manfu – English Language Teaching, 2011
Chinese Students' English has its own characteristics. It is of significance to analyze and study these characteristics. The paper uses the corpus approach to study the misuse of tenses in Chinese College students' CET-4 compositions of the sub-corpus of "Non-major College Students" in the Chinese Learner English Corpus (CLEC). Nine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
