tailieunhanh - Verbs in the Written English of Chinese Learners: A Corpus-based Comparison between Non-native Speakers and Native Speakers

This guidebook on how to write scientific journal articles is mostly based on the authors’ personal experiences and their own learning curve towards successful publication. This guidebook includes examples from over fifty journal publication attempts, most of which have eventually been successful. Aside from their own writing experience, the authors have also learned from various other people representing different fields through guiding them in the writing and publishing of journal articles. Currently, the authors provide hands-on guidance and disseminate knowledge and best practices relating to scientific writing through all the faculties in the University of Oulu, Finland. The work. | Verbs in the Written English of Chinese Learners A Corpus-based Comparison between Non-native Speakers and Native Speakers by Xiaotian Guo A thesis submitted to the University of Birmingham for the degree of DOCTOR of PHILOSOPHY Supervisor Professor Susan Hunston The Department of English The University of Birmingham The School of Humanities October 2006 UNIVERSITY BIRMINGHAM University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository This unpublished thesis dissertation is copyright of the author and or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. Abstract This thesis consists of ten chapters and its research methodology is a combination of quantitative and qualitative. Chapter One introduces the theme of the thesis a demonstration of a corpus-based comparative approach in detecting the needs of the learners by looking for the similarities and disparities between the learner English the COLEC corpus and the NS English the LOCNESS corpus . Chapter Two reviews the literature in relevant learner language studies and indicates the tasks of the research. The data and technology are introduced in Chapter Three. Chapter Four shows how two verb lemma lists can be made by using the Wordsmith Tools supported by other corpus and IT tools. How to make sense of the verb lemma lists is the focus of the second part of this chapter. Chapter Five deals with the individual forms of verbs and the findings suggest that there is less homogeneity in the learner English than the NS English. Chapter Six extends the research to verb-noun relationships in the learner .