Emotional Words in Chinese ESL Essay Writing

Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on E-Education, E-Business and E-Technology Pub Date : 2018-07-05 DOI:10.1145/3241748.3241761

Hui Sun, T. Goh, Da-wei Jing

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Chinese students are increasing interested in studying abroad and doing well in SAT is a strong requirement for admission into universities in the USA. This short paper investigates the use of emotional words in Chinese students ESL essay writing. Using 565 SAT essays, sentiment analysis with NRC Emotion Lexicon and statistical methods (including descriptive analysis and linear regression analysis) were employed to perform data analysis. The NRC lexicon is an emotional dictionary defining every word with polarities (positive and negative) and eight basic emotions (anticipation, trust, surprise, disgust, sadness, joy, fear and anger). The analysis revealed interesting results. First Chinese ESL students use more positive emotion words in their writing than negative emotion words. Second, both positive and negative emotion words significantly impact essay score. Third, within the eight dimensions of emotions, anticipation, trust, anger and fear have a significant impact on essay score. Previous studies suggest that culture and language proficiency may constitute to such a communication behavior among Chinese ESL learners.

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汉语ESL论文写作中的情感词汇

中国学生对出国留学的兴趣越来越大，SAT成绩优异是进入美国大学的一个重要要求。这篇短文调查了中国学生在ESL写作中情感词汇的使用。采用NRC Emotion Lexicon进行情绪分析，并采用描述性分析和线性回归分析等统计方法对565篇SAT作文进行数据分析。NRC词典是一本情感词典，定义了每个单词的极性(积极和消极)和八种基本情绪(期待、信任、惊讶、厌恶、悲伤、快乐、恐惧和愤怒)。分析揭示了有趣的结果。首先，中国学生在写作中使用的积极情绪词汇多于消极情绪词汇。第二，积极情绪词和消极情绪词对作文成绩都有显著影响。第三，在情绪的八个维度中，期待、信任、愤怒和恐惧对作文成绩有显著影响。以往的研究表明，文化和语言能力可能构成了中国ESL学习者的这种沟通行为。

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