An Analysis of Verb Phrase Errors in Chinese Learner English Corpus
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چکیده
This paper employs qualitative and quantitative methods to study verb phrase errors made by Chinese non-English majors in their writing, collected in Chinese Learner English Corpus (CLEC), on the basis of contrastive analysis and error analysis. The purpose is to offer English learners methods to help improve their English proficiency and put forward some suggestions on English language teaching and learning. The main findings are as follows: (1) the verb phrase errors account for 12.08% of the total language errors; (2) there is a significant difference in verb phrase errors made by college learners of different writing proficiency; 3) Three main subtypes of verb phrase errors are errors in agreement, errors in transitivity, and errors in voice. Finally, this paper explores the reasons for verb phrase errors and comes up with some pedagogical suggestions.
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