从中国学习者英语语料库看英语被动语态习得

Acquisition of English passive voice by Chinese learners-A corpus-based approach

被动语态是英语中一个很重要的语法项目 ,本文通过中国学习者英语语料库研究其被动语态的习得 ,发现在该项目的习得上 ,各层次的学习者难点相似 ;非受格动词假设有一定的心理现实性 ;被动使用不足是学习者最容易犯的错误。产生错误的原因为对动词用法掌握不牢和母语负迁移。

Passive voice is one of the important grammatical items in English. This paper aims at an analysis of Chinese English learners' acquisition of passive voice from a corpus based approach. It is found that for different levels of learners, the difficulty in acquiring this grammatical item remains the same; the unaccusative hypothesis is psychologically realistic; inadequate use of passive voice is among the mistakes most likely to be made by learners. The mistakes can be attributed to the poor grasp of verb usages and the negative transfer of the mother tongue.