A Corpus Study of Collocation in Chinese Learner English

2016-12-08
A Corpus Study of Collocation in Chinese Learner English

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  • Author: Yuanwen Lu
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1315464721
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 309

Based on two corpora: LOCNESS (Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays) and MLC (Non-English major Mainland Chinese Learner Corpus), this book explores the grammatical and lexical collocations of Chinese learner English. As one of the first systematic studies to investigate collocations in Chinese learner English based on learner corpora, this book provides significant implications for foreign language teaching and learning.

A Corpus Study of Collocation in Chinese Learner English

2016-12-08
A Corpus Study of Collocation in Chinese Learner English

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  • Author: Yuanwen Lu
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1315464713
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 417

Collocation is an important tool in describing lexical behaviour in language and has received increasing attention in recent years. Based on two corpora: LOCNESS (the Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays) and MLC (the Non-English major Mainland Chinese Learner Corpus), this book explores the features of Chinese learner English with analysis of grammatical and lexical collocations. The findings show that Chinese university students use collocations with considerably less variety and Chinese language and culture exert a substantial influence on their English writing. It also discusses ways to tackle the problems Chinese English learners face and the pedagogical implications for teaching English and learning English collocations. As one of the first systematic studies to investigate collocations in Chinese learner English based on learner corpora, this book not only analyzes how Chinese learners use collocations in their English writing, but also provides significant implications for foreign language teaching and learning.

Vocabulary Increase and Collocation Learning

2017-09-04
Vocabulary Increase and Collocation Learning

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  • Author: Haiyan Men
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 9811058229
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 204

This book highlights research that expands on our knowledge of second- language collocation acquisition. It presents original findings based on the largest collocation database to date, encompassing over 8,000 collocations: verb + noun, adjective + noun, and noun + noun. These collocations, collected from a one-million-learner corpus, were not confined to English as a foreign language (EFL) learners at a particular proficiency level, but also included learners at three levels. As such, the book provides a panoramic view regarding L2 collocation acquisition, not only in terms of learners’ acquisition of different types of collocations, but in terms of the developmental patterns in L2 collocation learning. One major discovery is that there is a collocation lag as learners’ proficiency levels rise, which is associated with vocabulary increase, in particular semantic domains—a remarkable insight for second-language acquisition researchers, English teachers and EFL learners alike. The findings reported shed new light on how collocations are acquired by EFL learners, offering guidance on how they can best be taught. In closing, the book discusses pedagogical aspects that arise from considering how learners can be helped with collocation learning.

Collocations in a Learner Corpus

2005-01-27
Collocations in a Learner Corpus

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  • Author: Nadja Nesselhauf
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027294739
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 346

Collocations are both pervasive in language and difficult for language learners, even at an advanced level. In this book, these difficulties are for the first time comprehensively investigated. On the basis of a learner corpus, idiosyncratic collocation use by learners is uncovered, the building material of learner collocations examined, and the factors that contribute to the difficulty of certain groups of collocations identified. An extensive discussion of the implications of the results for the foreign language classroom is also presented, and the contentious issue of the relation of corpus linguistic research and language teaching is thus extended to learner corpus analysis.

Language Ideologies in the Chinese Context

2020-06-22
Language Ideologies in the Chinese Context

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  • Author: Ying Wang
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 1501503707
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 326

This book explores language ideologies in China, which encounters the unprecedented global spread of English as a lingua franca, against the backdrop of globalisation where China emerges as a rapidly developing economy with vigorous promotion of Chinese around the world. The book addresses Chinese speakers' ideologies in relation to ELF and provides insights into non-native English speakers' engagement in the development of English in the future.

The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics

2015-06-25
The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics

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  • Author: Douglas Biber
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1316298701
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 757

The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics (CHECL) surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English, including chapters on collocations, phraseology, grammatical variation, historical change, and the description of registers and dialects. The most innovative aspects of the CHECL are its emphasis on critical discussion, its explicit evaluation of the state of the art in each sub-discipline, and the inclusion of empirical case studies. While each chapter includes a broad survey of previous research, the primary focus is on a detailed description of the most important corpus-based studies in this area, with discussion of what those studies found, and why they are important. Each chapter also includes a critical discussion of the corpus-based methods employed for research in this area, as well as an explicit summary of new findings and discoveries.

Identity Constructions in Bilingual Advertising

2018-09-03
Identity Constructions in Bilingual Advertising

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  • Author: Songqing Li
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 0429825528
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 226

This is the first book-length study of identity constructions in relation to English as a contact language in advertising of non-English-speaking countries through a critical and interpretive lens. Instead of simply presuming the role of the English language may have in constructing identities within the multimodal advertisement, this book aims to explore ethnographically the ideological underpinnings of identity constructions in the context of local politics of English. It studies the varying degrees of the contribution of the English language and its possible roles in bilingual advertising, unravels the ideological dimensions of the language as well as identity and explains the sociocultural forms and meanings of identity. To this end, it develops a new critical-cognitive approach, bringing together recent advances in English as a global language, critical sociolinguistics, multilingual studies and multimodal discourse analysis. By delving into the cognitive process of identity constructions, it provides an evidence-based account of the roles of English, and it illustrates the interconnections between identities and local politics of English. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to scholars and students in bilingualism, multilingualism, discourse analysis, English as a global language, multimodality, advertising and marketing.

Complementarity Between Lexis and Grammar in the System of Person

2016-10-04
Complementarity Between Lexis and Grammar in the System of Person

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  • Author: Pin Wang
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1315469278
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 140

This book investigates the lexico-grammatical complementarity in language in its construal of person as a semantic system. Given the vast and wide spectrum of resources for expressing distinctions in the assignment of person roles in language, this book presents person-related system networks covering a rich range of semantic features. It also studies the system of person in relation to other major semantic systems instead of regarding it as one isolated component of language parallel to gender, number, case, etc. Systemic features of person are in turn realized by lexicogrammar, whose components, lexis and grammar form a relationship of complementarity in the process of transforming human experience into meaning. Person-related meaning can be either realized by lexical means, i.e. entity, process, quality, or grammatical means, i.e. pronouns, clitics, affixes, zero forms. Besides, such meaning is also found to be realized at some indeterminate areas along the lexis-grammar continuum. A special feature of this book is that it observes the lexicalization and grammaticalization of person based on evidence from a variety of languages. Readers will be presented a comprehensive look into the meaning of person and will be encouraged to reflect on its realization in their own languages.

Patterns and Meanings of Intensifiers in Chinese Learner Corpora

2016-12-01
Patterns and Meanings of Intensifiers in Chinese Learner Corpora

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  • Author: Chunyan Wang
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1315473720
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 193

Intensification plays a major role in spoken and written interaction, enabling the writer or speaker to express different levels of commitment. This book explores the patterns and meanings of intensifiers in Chinese learner English by ways of comparison with native English. The study is conducted within the theoretical framework of Firthian contextual theory of meaning, Sinclairian model of Extended Units of Meaning (EUM) and Hunston's pattern grammar. The method of contrastive inter-language analysis (CIA) is adopted and the intensifier collocations in learner English and native English are explored by means of quantitative and qualitative analyses of corpora data. This book is the first attempt to investigate the patterning and meaning features of intensifiers systematically with the corpora data in Chinese learner English. Readers will obtain a relatively complete picture of how Chinese learners use intensifiers to realize their attitudinal meanings.

The Idiom Principle and L1 Influence

2016-10-06
The Idiom Principle and L1 Influence

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  • Author: Ying Wang
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027266719
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 263

This book examines delexical verb + noun collocations such as make a decision, give rise to and take care of in Swedish and Chinese learner English. Using a methodological framework that combines learner corpus research with a contrastive perspective, the study is one of the very few in the field to incorporate corpora of the learner’s L1 to investigate the effects of L1 influence. The book provides a highly detailed and multi-faceted analysis of delexical verb + noun collocations in terms of frequency of occurrence, lexical preferences and morphosyntactic patterns. Quantitative and qualitative results on overuse, underuse and errors are presented with linguistically and pedagogically relevant interpretations that include cultural and discourse aspects. More importantly, the book throws light on how L2 learners may alternate between the open-choice principle and the idiom principle as well as the extent and nature of L1 influence on their collocational use.