Computer-aided contrast in Chinese L1 learners of English existential structures using Wordsmith Tools

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10.2991/icesame-18.2018.42How to use a DOI?

Keywords

WordSmith Tools, English Learner Corpus, Chinese learners of English, existential structures, verbal tenses

Abstract

The present study has employed WordSmith Tools v3.9 as the retrieval program for the analysis and comparison of the complexity in English existential structures. CLEC and Brown are the corpus involved in the study with more than million words respectively, representing Chinese and native speakers' use of existential structures. WordList function has been served to generate keyword lists and the frequency of 11 types of existential structures while Concordance function, to capture contexts for the distribution of each type. Findings indicate that (1) Chinese L1 learners intend to overuse present tense and underuse past tense and perfect tense and (2) Chinese L1 learners showed lacks of flexibility in the expressions of different verbal tenses in using English existential.

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wenxiao Zhao
AU  - Mingmei Du
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - Computer-aided contrast in Chinese L1 learners of English existential structures using Wordsmith Tools
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 3rd International Conference on Education, Sports, Arts and Management Engineering (ICESAME 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 203
EP  - 206
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icesame-18.2018.42
DO  - 10.2991/icesame-18.2018.42
ID  - Zhao2018/07
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