中国学生英语写作中的造词现象

An analysis of coinages in Chinese learners' composition,

本文就学习者写作中的造词现象进行分析与讨论 ,材料取自中国学习者英语语料库中的大学英语学习者作文子语料库。采用的研究方法是语料库方法 ,使用的检索工具是MicroConcord。研究结果发现 ,中国学生的造词现象具有一定的规律性 ,按照其造词手段的特点 ,主要可分为五大类。文章还统计了各分数段所有作文中造词现象的出现次数 ,并计算出各分数段作文中平均每篇所出现的造词现象的均数。作者发现 ,对于大多数学生来说 ,造词的频率与其英语水平没有必然的关系 ,而对于少数优秀学生来说 。

This paper deals with the problem of coinages in Chinese learners' composition. Our study is based on a sub_corpus of Chinese Learner English Corpus which includes more than 2000 learners' compositions. We apply the corpus approach and MicroConcord to concord the coinages in the data. By classifying and analyzing the coinages, we attempt to find whether there are certain patterns in the coinages, and if there are, what their possible causes are. We have found that there are indeed some patterns and there are five common methods used by Chinese learners to coin a new word: (1) affixation (including prefix and suffix); (2) compounding; (3) plural forms of nouns; (4) adding _ed, _ing, _s to the verbs; (5) transition of syntactical functions of words. By analyzing the statistics, we also attempt to find whether there is a certain relationship between the learners' English proficiency and the frequency of coinages. It is concluded that some of the coinages are caused by interlingual transfer, and some by intralingual transfer. In classroom teaching, teachers should treat different kinds of coinages accordingly instead of criticizing the learners for their errors.