A Corpus-based Study on Concessive Clauses Used in English Writing by Chinese Senior High School Students

English language teaching and linguistics studies Pub Date : 2024-01-23 DOI:10.22158/eltls.v6n1p67

Haoran Xu

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This paper is designed to reveal the characteristics and figure out the errors in Chinese senior high students’ construction of concessive clause. The study uses data from Chinese Learner English Corpus (CLEC) and a collection of concessive clauses from 499 English compositions written by senior two students in a key public high school in Beijing. The result shows that the construction of concessive clauses exhibits certain characteristics: (1) employing a wide range of linking words, “although” being the most frequently used concessive conjunction, which differs from the use of linking words in St2 from CLEC; (2) having a tendency to place the subordinate clause before the matrix and to construct the concessive clause as “Subject + Linking Verb + Predicate”. Fifty-seven errors are identified in 132 concessive clauses, including: (1) errors of linking words; (2) the wrong matrix-subordinate clause relationship; (3) errors such as choosing the wrong linking words, inconsistent tense between the matrix and subordinate clauses, errors within the clauses, and incorrect use of punctuation. These errors are mainly influenced by the negative transfer from Chinese.

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基于语料库的中国高中生英语写作中从句使用情况研究

本文旨在揭示中国高中生在构建让步状语从句时的特点并找出其中的错误。研究使用了中国学习者英语语料库（CLEC）中的数据，并收集了北京市某重点公立高中高二学生所写的 499 篇英语作文中的让步状语从句。研究结果表明，让步状语从句的结构表现出一定的特点：（1）连接词的使用范围较广，"though "是使用频率最高的让步连词，这与CLEC中St2的连接词使用情况有所不同；（2）倾向于将从句放在基体之前，并以 "主语+连接词+谓语 "的形式构建让步状语从句。在 132 个让步状语从句中发现了 57 处错误，包括：（1）关联词错误；（2）错误的矩阵-从句关系；（3）选择错误的关联词、矩阵和从句时态不一致、从句内部错误和标点符号使用不当等错误。这些错误主要是受汉语负迁移的影响。

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