中国大学生英语名词数的误用研究

A Study of Chinese EFL Learners’ Misuse in English Singular and Plural Nouns

本文用语料库方法研究了大型学习者语料库CLEC中大学英语4级和大学英语6级两个子语料库中英语名词数的误用现象,同时考察了两类学习者在名词数的误用上有无显著性差异。研究发现:两类学习者在名词数的误用上具有以下6个特点:可数名词误用作不可数名词,不可数名词后加复数标记,复数名词后缺少复数标记,名词复数拼写错误,代词加复数标记,不定冠词与复数名词联用等;两类学习者名词数的误用总体上呈现显著差异,然而分别比较两类学习者的6种不同类型的失误发现,只有两种类型存在显著差异;这些误用现象可能是由英汉语的认知区别、母语的负迁移以及过度概括引起的。

This study aims to explore Chinese EFL learners’misuse in English singular and plural nouns in two sub-corpora of ST3 and ST4 in Chinese Learner English Corpus(CLEC).Analysis of the data shows that the misuse of English singular and plural nouns by Chinese learners mainly follows six patterns;countable nouns misused as uncountable ones,uncountable nouns plus-s,plural nouns without-s,plural misspellings,pronouns plus-s and a/an plus plurals.Statistics shows significant difference in misuses of English singular and plural nouns between the two sub-corpora.It is suggested that cognitive difference,first language transfer and overgeneralization may have caused this complex phenomenon.