英语专业学生写作中让步连接词的使用研究

A Corpus-based study of Concessive Connectives in Writings by College English Majors

采用基于学习者语料库的中介语对比分析方法,以微观视角考察几个常见让步连接词在英语专业学生作文中的使用情况。结果表明:在使用频率、句中位置、所连接的语法结构等方面,英语专业学生与本族语者存在较大差异,而不同水平的学生则体现出更多的相似性。上述发现对英语连接词教学材料、教学方法等的改革具有重要启示。

The current study,following the corpus-based approach known as Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis,is a microscopic examination on the use of several common concessive connectives in writings by college students majoring in English. The results show that these learners deviate from the native speaker norm in various respects,including frequency pattern,sentential position and grammatical constructions. These findings have important implications for the teaching of connectives in the Chinese EFL setting.