This paper reports a corpus-based study on the use of adverbial connectors by Chinese non-English major EFL learners with different English proficiency levels. Research results show that there is a significant correla...This paper reports a corpus-based study on the use of adverbial connectors by Chinese non-English major EFL learners with different English proficiency levels. Research results show that there is a significant correlation between the learners' use of adverbial connectors and their writing quality. The Chinese learners with higher linguistic proficiency use more tokens and types of adverbial connectors and perform better in the use of adverbial connectors in terms of stylistic awareness in their writings than those with lower linguistic proficiency.展开更多
As English and Chinese belong to different language families,the left and right branching structures in the two languages are both similar and different.Generally speaking,Chinese has a predominance of left-branching ...As English and Chinese belong to different language families,the left and right branching structures in the two languages are both similar and different.Generally speaking,Chinese has a predominance of left-branching structures and English has a predominance of right-branching structures.That is to say,Chinese is used to using left branches in its expressions,while English is used to using right branches in its expressions.展开更多
文摘This paper reports a corpus-based study on the use of adverbial connectors by Chinese non-English major EFL learners with different English proficiency levels. Research results show that there is a significant correlation between the learners' use of adverbial connectors and their writing quality. The Chinese learners with higher linguistic proficiency use more tokens and types of adverbial connectors and perform better in the use of adverbial connectors in terms of stylistic awareness in their writings than those with lower linguistic proficiency.
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文摘As English and Chinese belong to different language families,the left and right branching structures in the two languages are both similar and different.Generally speaking,Chinese has a predominance of left-branching structures and English has a predominance of right-branching structures.That is to say,Chinese is used to using left branches in its expressions,while English is used to using right branches in its expressions.
