I.IntroductionThe study of the.lexical approach focuses on the understanding ofa lexical-grammatical unit,which was called lexical phrase by Nattinger and Decarrieo and was called chunks by Michel Lewis.It is a multi-...I.IntroductionThe study of the.lexical approach focuses on the understanding ofa lexical-grammatical unit,which was called lexical phrase by Nattinger and Decarrieo and was called chunks by Michel Lewis.It is a multi-word unit of varying lengths,which has a fixed orrelatively fixed structure and expresses a certain meaning.It is prefabri-cated and frequently used.As a language teacher I think chunks arevery useful in language teaching and the lexical approach is a way of improving my teaching.They make sense in the classroom as they展开更多
The essay briefly illustrates E-C and C-E Translation strategies in the light of lexical similarity and differences of Lexical Contrastive Analysis, and explores lexical translation skills under the theory of Cultural...The essay briefly illustrates E-C and C-E Translation strategies in the light of lexical similarity and differences of Lexical Contrastive Analysis, and explores lexical translation skills under the theory of Cultural Differences.展开更多
The Egg is written by famous American writer Sherwood Anderson,which concentrated on the people’s spiritual world in the small town in the transitional society from central and western America.This thesis employs Lex...The Egg is written by famous American writer Sherwood Anderson,which concentrated on the people’s spiritual world in the small town in the transitional society from central and western America.This thesis employs Lexical Stylistic Analysis methods to analyze adjectives about father’s personality,revealing themes that people get lost in the American Dream and become the victims of the American Dream.展开更多
This is a qualitative study aimed at finding the lexical and grammatical errors students of three Senior High Schoolsin the Central Region of Ghana commit in their essay writing. The study also sought to examine the f...This is a qualitative study aimed at finding the lexical and grammatical errors students of three Senior High Schoolsin the Central Region of Ghana commit in their essay writing. The study also sought to examine the frequency ofthe errors and what can be done to improve the teaching of L2 （English） writing in the Senior High School. Thestudy used a corpus of essay writings of 150 second year students. The schools and the participants werepurposively selected. The data were analyzed using the content analysis approach. The study identified that thelexical errors in the students＇ writing were due to homophone problems and semantic lexical errors. Thegrammatical errors identified were agreement errors, tense errors, singular-plural （number） errors, prepositionalerrors, and article errors. The study also found that the most frequently committed grammatical error was tenseerrors followed by agreement errors. The implications of these findings to the teaching of English writing are thatteachers where possible should have understanding of both the L1 and L2 of the students and teachers shouldexplicitly teach for transfer, have adequate knowledge of how to identify students＇ writing errors, and use effectiveteaching strategies to improve students＇ English writing. Additionally, teachers should serve as models of usingappropriate English for students to emulate and also create a conducive classroom environment for students toparticipate in class activities. Lastly, teachers should create more opportunities for students to write.展开更多
The paper presented here investigates the kinds of lexical and grammatical errors made by Chinese EFL college students in their English compositions. Errors are then identified and .categorized to trace their causes. ...The paper presented here investigates the kinds of lexical and grammatical errors made by Chinese EFL college students in their English compositions. Errors are then identified and .categorized to trace their causes. The analysis of the errors along with the interviews of students and teachers show that vocabulary acquisition is one of the most important factors that affect the writing proficiency of the Chinese students especially the college students. Reasons for these errors are analyzed and suggestions are Out forward for reference.展开更多
Errors made by language learners can be regarded as a reflection of learning process and they help teachers assess students' learning.Lexical errors are one part of the errors made by students.This essay tries to ...Errors made by language learners can be regarded as a reflection of learning process and they help teachers assess students' learning.Lexical errors are one part of the errors made by students.This essay tries to make an analysis about the main types and causes of the lexical errors made by Chinese learners who study English as a foreign language and put forward some suggestions to solve the lexical problems.展开更多
It is doubtless that vocabulary acquisition plays a crucial role in using a foreign language. When vocabulary gets the attention it deserves, that is, when students acquire explicit vocabulary through deep processing ...It is doubtless that vocabulary acquisition plays a crucial role in using a foreign language. When vocabulary gets the attention it deserves, that is, when students acquire explicit vocabulary through deep processing and re-encountering, they should also be aware that vocabulary acquisition is a task that involves various cognitive strategies. In this paper, some typical disadvantages of current word teaching are mainly analyzed, and suggestions for more efficient lexical oresentation are provided.展开更多
This paper makes a detailed stylistic analysis of an extract from The Rainbow by Lawrence based on lexical features,grammatical features and figure of speech.Through the analysis,a better aesthetic appreciation and de...This paper makes a detailed stylistic analysis of an extract from The Rainbow by Lawrence based on lexical features,grammatical features and figure of speech.Through the analysis,a better aesthetic appreciation and deeper understanding of the novel will be achieved.展开更多
This essay excerpts an academic lecture on psychology from the listening part of TOEFL. Through respective analyses on the facets of thematic progression patterns and lexical sense relation, some main findings can be ...This essay excerpts an academic lecture on psychology from the listening part of TOEFL. Through respective analyses on the facets of thematic progression patterns and lexical sense relation, some main findings can be drawn. First, his text follows a typical Situation-Problem-Solution-Evaluation pattern. Also, this text applies various lexical sense relations and thematic progression patterns. Eventually, all make each paragraph and the whole text coherent.展开更多
Lexical errors made by language learners frequently in the language learning process play a significant role in language teaching and learning. This paper, based on the theory of error analysis, mainly analyzes lexica...Lexical errors made by language learners frequently in the language learning process play a significant role in language teaching and learning. This paper, based on the theory of error analysis, mainly analyzes lexical errors made by Chinese senior one students in their writing and aims to find out the main types of lexical errors and the most frequent lexical errors in their writing. The results are of great significance and importance for language teaching and learning.展开更多
The primary concern of this paper is to address the issue of discrepancies between teachers intuitively defined stronger and weaker student argumentative writings.There exists a problem in Chinese university EFL writi...The primary concern of this paper is to address the issue of discrepancies between teachers intuitively defined stronger and weaker student argumentative writings.There exists a problem in Chinese university EFL writing classrooms that the teachers'remarks on student compositions are often found to be rather vague or even unhelpful.Remarks such as Needs further amendment and You wrote just like the way you speak cannot supply students with explicit reasons of what is really needed for their writing improvement.Affirming the dialectal view on text-context relationship held by Systemic Functional Grammar(SFG),the theoretical propositions of Rich Feature Analysis(Barton,2004) are contended to a sound solution to the problem proposed by this paper.To demonstrate its feasibility,the paper followed the gist of Rich Feature Analysis to analyze a corpus of four argumentative writings on same topics.The paper consolidates "the spoken-written continuum"(Barton,2004,p.64),and concludes stronger argumentative writings should own at least one of the following properties: product-like,condensed,recursive,coherent,distanced,and open to scrutiny.The absence of lexical density and nominalization constitutes the main reason for writing deficiencies by tertiary students.The implications for learning the register of schooling are discussed.展开更多
Critical Discourse Analysis has increasingly drawn the attention of scholars as a new perspective of discourse analysis.By studying the linguistic features and structures,it can analyze the relation between discourse,...Critical Discourse Analysis has increasingly drawn the attention of scholars as a new perspective of discourse analysis.By studying the linguistic features and structures,it can analyze the relation between discourse,power and ideology.In this paper we analyze news re ports of foreign affairs,which draw little attention in previous studies.We make a critical analysis of the 10 news reports on the 3rd US-China strategic and Economic Dialogue in American and in Chinese news media.The analysis will be conducted from 2 categories:modal auxiliary and lexical repetition.展开更多
Based on the fact that on-line chat has become the most developing language form in the information age, this article point out the stylistic features of on-line English chat. Though in written language form, such lan...Based on the fact that on-line chat has become the most developing language form in the information age, this article point out the stylistic features of on-line English chat. Though in written language form, such language is spoken language in nature, thus it is worthwhile to analyze this special phaenomenon in lexical and grammatical level.展开更多
The poem O Captain! My Captain! is a good poem written by the great American poet, Walt Whitman. It is a eulogy written on the death of Abraham Lincoln. In this poem the poet expresses his sadness at the death of the ...The poem O Captain! My Captain! is a good poem written by the great American poet, Walt Whitman. It is a eulogy written on the death of Abraham Lincoln. In this poem the poet expresses his sadness at the death of the great leader and expresses his great love of his beloved leader. This paper is to have a stylistic analysis of the poem by observing its phonological, lexical, semantic and syntactic features.展开更多
Based on Winter's and Hoey's theories on discourse analysis, the Problem-Solution Pattern in cosmetic advertising from the perspective of text patterns and lexical signaling is discussed by analyzing thirty pi...Based on Winter's and Hoey's theories on discourse analysis, the Problem-Solution Pattern in cosmetic advertising from the perspective of text patterns and lexical signaling is discussed by analyzing thirty pieces of advertisements on cosmetic products. Findings suggest text patterns of cosmetic advertisements display in various forms and the components of Problem-Solution Pattern are signaled by lexical items as emotive vocabulary with positive or negative meanings and repetition of the brand names. Possible implications are offered for cosmetic advertising industry in writing effective advertisements both in English and Chinese.展开更多
This paper attempts at an in-depth exploration of lexical mismatching, a pattern of vocabulary errors. In this paper, errors per se were collected from 107 writing samples of Chinese college students, and then investi...This paper attempts at an in-depth exploration of lexical mismatching, a pattern of vocabulary errors. In this paper, errors per se were collected from 107 writing samples of Chinese college students, and then investigated from a variety of linguistic perspectives. Traditional theoretical approaches, i.e. CA and EA, are incorporated in the source analysis for a more comprehensive interpretation. Hopefully, the findings of the study will shed lights on lexical instruction and acquisition in the field of SLA.展开更多
Critical discourse analysis is mainly used to analyse institutional discourses. The author tries to use this theory to analyse spoken business negotioaions, which is rarely done.This kind of analysis will surely give ...Critical discourse analysis is mainly used to analyse institutional discourses. The author tries to use this theory to analyse spoken business negotioaions, which is rarely done.This kind of analysis will surely give readers some insight into the negotiations from the critical aspect, and also give some inspiration to the teaching of business negotiations.展开更多
文摘I.IntroductionThe study of the.lexical approach focuses on the understanding ofa lexical-grammatical unit,which was called lexical phrase by Nattinger and Decarrieo and was called chunks by Michel Lewis.It is a multi-word unit of varying lengths,which has a fixed orrelatively fixed structure and expresses a certain meaning.It is prefabri-cated and frequently used.As a language teacher I think chunks arevery useful in language teaching and the lexical approach is a way of improving my teaching.They make sense in the classroom as they
文摘The essay briefly illustrates E-C and C-E Translation strategies in the light of lexical similarity and differences of Lexical Contrastive Analysis, and explores lexical translation skills under the theory of Cultural Differences.
文摘The Egg is written by famous American writer Sherwood Anderson,which concentrated on the people’s spiritual world in the small town in the transitional society from central and western America.This thesis employs Lexical Stylistic Analysis methods to analyze adjectives about father’s personality,revealing themes that people get lost in the American Dream and become the victims of the American Dream.
文摘This is a qualitative study aimed at finding the lexical and grammatical errors students of three Senior High Schoolsin the Central Region of Ghana commit in their essay writing. The study also sought to examine the frequency ofthe errors and what can be done to improve the teaching of L2 （English） writing in the Senior High School. Thestudy used a corpus of essay writings of 150 second year students. The schools and the participants werepurposively selected. The data were analyzed using the content analysis approach. The study identified that thelexical errors in the students＇ writing were due to homophone problems and semantic lexical errors. Thegrammatical errors identified were agreement errors, tense errors, singular-plural （number） errors, prepositionalerrors, and article errors. The study also found that the most frequently committed grammatical error was tenseerrors followed by agreement errors. The implications of these findings to the teaching of English writing are thatteachers where possible should have understanding of both the L1 and L2 of the students and teachers shouldexplicitly teach for transfer, have adequate knowledge of how to identify students＇ writing errors, and use effectiveteaching strategies to improve students＇ English writing. Additionally, teachers should serve as models of usingappropriate English for students to emulate and also create a conducive classroom environment for students toparticipate in class activities. Lastly, teachers should create more opportunities for students to write.
文摘The paper presented here investigates the kinds of lexical and grammatical errors made by Chinese EFL college students in their English compositions. Errors are then identified and .categorized to trace their causes. The analysis of the errors along with the interviews of students and teachers show that vocabulary acquisition is one of the most important factors that affect the writing proficiency of the Chinese students especially the college students. Reasons for these errors are analyzed and suggestions are Out forward for reference.
文摘Errors made by language learners can be regarded as a reflection of learning process and they help teachers assess students' learning.Lexical errors are one part of the errors made by students.This essay tries to make an analysis about the main types and causes of the lexical errors made by Chinese learners who study English as a foreign language and put forward some suggestions to solve the lexical problems.
文摘It is doubtless that vocabulary acquisition plays a crucial role in using a foreign language. When vocabulary gets the attention it deserves, that is, when students acquire explicit vocabulary through deep processing and re-encountering, they should also be aware that vocabulary acquisition is a task that involves various cognitive strategies. In this paper, some typical disadvantages of current word teaching are mainly analyzed, and suggestions for more efficient lexical oresentation are provided.
文摘This paper makes a detailed stylistic analysis of an extract from The Rainbow by Lawrence based on lexical features,grammatical features and figure of speech.Through the analysis,a better aesthetic appreciation and deeper understanding of the novel will be achieved.
文摘This essay excerpts an academic lecture on psychology from the listening part of TOEFL. Through respective analyses on the facets of thematic progression patterns and lexical sense relation, some main findings can be drawn. First, his text follows a typical Situation-Problem-Solution-Evaluation pattern. Also, this text applies various lexical sense relations and thematic progression patterns. Eventually, all make each paragraph and the whole text coherent.
文摘Lexical errors made by language learners frequently in the language learning process play a significant role in language teaching and learning. This paper, based on the theory of error analysis, mainly analyzes lexical errors made by Chinese senior one students in their writing and aims to find out the main types of lexical errors and the most frequent lexical errors in their writing. The results are of great significance and importance for language teaching and learning.
文摘The primary concern of this paper is to address the issue of discrepancies between teachers intuitively defined stronger and weaker student argumentative writings.There exists a problem in Chinese university EFL writing classrooms that the teachers'remarks on student compositions are often found to be rather vague or even unhelpful.Remarks such as Needs further amendment and You wrote just like the way you speak cannot supply students with explicit reasons of what is really needed for their writing improvement.Affirming the dialectal view on text-context relationship held by Systemic Functional Grammar(SFG),the theoretical propositions of Rich Feature Analysis(Barton,2004) are contended to a sound solution to the problem proposed by this paper.To demonstrate its feasibility,the paper followed the gist of Rich Feature Analysis to analyze a corpus of four argumentative writings on same topics.The paper consolidates "the spoken-written continuum"(Barton,2004,p.64),and concludes stronger argumentative writings should own at least one of the following properties: product-like,condensed,recursive,coherent,distanced,and open to scrutiny.The absence of lexical density and nominalization constitutes the main reason for writing deficiencies by tertiary students.The implications for learning the register of schooling are discussed.
文摘Critical Discourse Analysis has increasingly drawn the attention of scholars as a new perspective of discourse analysis.By studying the linguistic features and structures,it can analyze the relation between discourse,power and ideology.In this paper we analyze news re ports of foreign affairs,which draw little attention in previous studies.We make a critical analysis of the 10 news reports on the 3rd US-China strategic and Economic Dialogue in American and in Chinese news media.The analysis will be conducted from 2 categories:modal auxiliary and lexical repetition.
文摘Based on the fact that on-line chat has become the most developing language form in the information age, this article point out the stylistic features of on-line English chat. Though in written language form, such language is spoken language in nature, thus it is worthwhile to analyze this special phaenomenon in lexical and grammatical level.
文摘The poem O Captain! My Captain! is a good poem written by the great American poet, Walt Whitman. It is a eulogy written on the death of Abraham Lincoln. In this poem the poet expresses his sadness at the death of the great leader and expresses his great love of his beloved leader. This paper is to have a stylistic analysis of the poem by observing its phonological, lexical, semantic and syntactic features.
文摘Based on Winter's and Hoey's theories on discourse analysis, the Problem-Solution Pattern in cosmetic advertising from the perspective of text patterns and lexical signaling is discussed by analyzing thirty pieces of advertisements on cosmetic products. Findings suggest text patterns of cosmetic advertisements display in various forms and the components of Problem-Solution Pattern are signaled by lexical items as emotive vocabulary with positive or negative meanings and repetition of the brand names. Possible implications are offered for cosmetic advertising industry in writing effective advertisements both in English and Chinese.
文摘This paper attempts at an in-depth exploration of lexical mismatching, a pattern of vocabulary errors. In this paper, errors per se were collected from 107 writing samples of Chinese college students, and then investigated from a variety of linguistic perspectives. Traditional theoretical approaches, i.e. CA and EA, are incorporated in the source analysis for a more comprehensive interpretation. Hopefully, the findings of the study will shed lights on lexical instruction and acquisition in the field of SLA.
文摘Critical discourse analysis is mainly used to analyse institutional discourses. The author tries to use this theory to analyse spoken business negotioaions, which is rarely done.This kind of analysis will surely give readers some insight into the negotiations from the critical aspect, and also give some inspiration to the teaching of business negotiations.
