This study attempted to identify the characteristics of collocations and determine the existence of a relationship between collocations and coherence in writing by Chinese students. This study produced the following r...This study attempted to identify the characteristics of collocations and determine the existence of a relationship between collocations and coherence in writing by Chinese students. This study produced the following results： （1） Common mistaken collocations are seen in the writings by Chinese non-English and English majors; specifically, both English majors and non-English majors made more lexical collocational mistakes than grammatical collocational mistakes in terms of the total number of mistakes and in the type of mistaken collocations; （2） No evident relationship between the correct usage of collocations and coherence is found in the writings of non-English majors as compared to that of English majors. Thus, we can conclude that with the development of skills with the English language, the relationship between the correct use of collocations and coherence becomes increasingly stronger.展开更多
文摘This study attempted to identify the characteristics of collocations and determine the existence of a relationship between collocations and coherence in writing by Chinese students. This study produced the following results： （1） Common mistaken collocations are seen in the writings by Chinese non-English and English majors; specifically, both English majors and non-English majors made more lexical collocational mistakes than grammatical collocational mistakes in terms of the total number of mistakes and in the type of mistaken collocations; （2） No evident relationship between the correct usage of collocations and coherence is found in the writings of non-English majors as compared to that of English majors. Thus, we can conclude that with the development of skills with the English language, the relationship between the correct use of collocations and coherence becomes increasingly stronger.
