The Investigation on Redundancy Errors in Writing of Chinese English Learners with Different Proficiency

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10.2991/assehr.k.220131.025How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Redundancy Errors; Repetition; Message Entailment; Error Analysis; Language Proficiency; Negative Transfer; Interlanguage

Abstract

This research paper aims to figure out the main categories of redundancy errors in English writing tasks for Chinese undergraduates as well as the relations between different kinds of redundant constituents and learners’ English proficiency. Taking error analysis as the theoretical framework, this research aims to conduct a corpus-based study firstly and written discourse analysis accordingly. To find the distribution of different redundancy errors under the setting of English writing tasks, this research selects the Chinese Learner English Corpus (abbr. CLEC) as the source to search and classify redundancy errors. Sixty non-English majors with different English proficiency from a university in China are involved in the study. They are assigned a questionnaire consisting of fourteen sentences to judge whether there are redundancy errors, and then their answers are used for further data analysis. It is thought in this paper that the reasons for redundancy errors consist of language transfer and inadequate knowledge of the target language. In addition, this research puts forwards some practical strategies to be adopted for Chinese students to improve their English writing skills. This paper regards that students should avoid message repetition or entailment by realizing the semantic overlap between words. It is also referred students should raise the awareness of strengthening the grammar rules, thus preventing the overuse of functional words.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yujing Yang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/02/01
TI  - The Investigation on Redundancy Errors in Writing of Chinese English Learners with Different Proficiency
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 139
EP  - 146
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220131.025
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220131.025
ID  - Yang2022
ER  -