[大学四年级] 海南省 >> 三亚市 >> 育才镇
As the most
widely-spoken language, English has been attached importance by Chinese
educators. In the so-called “globe village” age, economic globalization is
proceeding and the cooperation and communication has becoming more and more
frequent. Therefore, as a tool of communication, the important of English is
intensifying with the time goes by. Listening, speaking, reading and writing
are the four main parts in learning a language. As a written language form,
English writing has its importance and necessity in delivering information and
expressing emotions. In order to learn English well, students should weigh
importance on English learning and improving. As for senior students, English
writing is a sign to reflect one’s English level. It can test students’
integrative competence. English writing nor only requires students have basic
language knowledge to use punctuations, spell words and choose words and make
sentences, but also demand students to express their ideas creatively in line
with the English thinking ways. Chinese and English belong to two different
language families. The former is Sino-Tibetan Family and the latter is
Indo-European Family. Thus, the two languages have a lot of differences.
Chinese is parataxis language and English is hypotaxis language. In Chinese,
people can change the meaning by using functional words and adjusting words and
expressions’ order. However, English is always using lots of grammar markers to
express the number and genitive of nouns and pronouns, times and voices of
verbs, and the comparative degree or superlative degree of adjectives and
adverbs. Even the functions of functional words are different between the two
languages. For example, English uses articles frequently while Chinese has no
articles. The differences between Chinese and English give rise to the
influences (especially negative influences) and disturb in Chinese students’
English writing, especially the negative impact the Chinese has brought in
learning English. Thus, the Chinese has a negative language transfer in
English. Due to the negative impact Chinese has brought, this paper is going to
discuss the negative language transfer. English writing takes up a large
percent in College Entrance English Examination, so writing is an important part
to learn and master. Thus the discussion of senior English writing has a great
significance. However, the times, voices and collocations are difficult parts
in senior English learning. Errors and mistakes happen frequently. Chinese
Learners English Corpus (CLEC) has collected about two hundred thousand words
of senior students’ English writing corpus. It also analyzed the frequency and
error types of verbs of those writing corpus. Therefore, the results and
findings the CLEC has concluded are convincing and effective. Based on the
statistics the CLEC has done, this paper will discuss and analyze the top ten
frequently used verbs in English writing in the grade one in Suichuan No. 2
Senior Middle School. One hundred students’ authentic writings are collected as
context corpus, which are completed under the supervision of the English
teacher. There are three main questions needing discuss in this paper. Firstly,
what are the top ten frequently used verbs in senior writing according to CLEC?
Secondly, how are the ten verbs being used in Suichuan No.2 Senior Middle
School? Three, according to the differences of the usage of the ten verbs
between Chinese students and native students, how should Chinese students learn
verbs effectively?