A Case Study of College Students’ Acquisition of English Non-finite Words

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10.2991/icemaess-18.2018.131How to use a DOI?

Keywords

non-finite verb, interlanguage, language transfer

Abstract

The use of non-finite words is one of the distinct differences between English and Chinese. How well do the Chinese students master English non-finite verbs? Are there differences between the good learners and poor ones in the mastery of English non-finite verbs? What are the difficulties and reasons affecting college English learners’ acquisition of English non-finite words? Based on a placement test, the paper first analyses learners' mastery conditions of non-finite words. Then with theories of second language acquisition, the paper analyzes the difficulties and reasons affecting students’ English non-finite verbs acquisition. Lastly, the paper gives some suggestions on English teaching and learning.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 5th International Conference on Education, Management, Arts, Economics and Social Science (ICEMAESS 2018)
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