A Corpus-based Study of Chinese EFL Learners’ Verb+Noun Collocational Errors in English Writing

Dongqing Huang

doi:10.18686/ahe.v6i18.5692

A Corpus-based Study of Chinese EFL Learners’ Verb+Noun Collocational Errors in English Writing

Dongqing Huang

Abstract

Statistics in Chinese Learner English Corpus (CLEC) show that verb+noun collocation is always a diffi cult point for Chinese EFL learners in English writings. This descriptive study tries to fi nd out the characteristics of these collocational errors made by Chinese EFL learners, make an analysis of them, and fi nally provide some implications for teachers, EFL learners and the related department.

Keywords

Verb+noun collocational errors; Error analysis; Chinese EFL learners; CLEC

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v6i18.5692

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