A Corpus-based Study of Present Tense Distribution in Chinese Students’ English Writings

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10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.35How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English writing; Present tense; Distribution; Corpus

Abstract

In this paper the use of present tenses in Chinese students’ writings in CLEC is compared with that of their counterparts in BAWE. First the overall distribution of all present tenses in the two corpora is described respectively; then the distribution feature of each tense is summarized; at last the causes for the distribution features in Chinese students’ writings are analyzed. The major findings are: in Chinese students’ writings, simple present tense and present progressive tense are overused, while present perfect tense and present perfect progressive tense are underused. Some pedagogical implications based on the research findings are discussed at the end of the paper.

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© 2015, 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  - Shuai Hu
AU  - Yan Gu
PY  - 2015/11
DA  - 2015/11
TI  - A Corpus-based Study of Present Tense Distribution in Chinese Students’ English Writings
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science, Education Management and Sports Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 143
EP  - 146
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.35
DO  - 10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.35
ID  - Hu2015/11
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