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A Corpus-based Study of L1 Transfer in Collocation: The Case of Chinese EFL Learners

Author: QiLi
Tutor: JiangDeJie
School: Qingdao University of Science and Technology
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Corpus Vocabulary Collocation Language Transfer
CLC: H319
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2008
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Abstract


Language migration (language transfer) refers to the impact caused by the similarities and differences between the previously learned any language and the target language. Language migration has been a focus of debate in the Second Language Acquisition (Odlin, 2001). Many linguists and psychologists of migration from different angles defined and explained. Study of Language Transfer in the past few decades from the initial behavior theory to the late mentalist to cognitive theory have gone through a tortuous road. The vocabulary is the cornerstone of language built. Must master a certain amount of learning any one language, vocabulary, and understanding of the mix between words. Vocabulary with the co-occurrence of the word with another word habitual linguistic phenomenon. In other words, collocations \Master an authentic foreign language, the the collocations importance is self-evident. In the second language acquisition, due to differences in language, grammar, vocabulary, voice, and different cultural background, native language affect lead collocation errors are inevitable. English Learner Corpus (The Chinese Learner English Corpus), select one of the three sub-corpus (ST2, ST5 and ST6), respectively, on behalf of China beginning, intermediate and advanced English learners, using WordSmith Tools to retrieve the sub-corpus Collocation error, then the error are classified according to the five steps Corder (1974) theory of error analysis and quantitative analysis, and language migration cause collocations is an important aspect of error (31.7%). Based on this, after the analysis in this article with the acquisition impact performance in which language transfer in the vocabulary. The results show that: (1) in the English learner corpus selected sub-corpus collocation error performance in six areas, namely: \\Verb nouns \Second is the \(2) Language Transfer in Second Language Vocabulary with acquisition impact, word-for-word translation and semantic expansion in the semantic aspects of performance; mainly syntactically subject structure, verb structure, verb-object structure voice expression, word order and modifiers structure errors. (3) quantitative analysis, different levels of English learners in China is different to the extent of mother tongue influence in second language vocabulary acquisition. Learners in primary level by the influence of the mother tongue is greater than the advanced learners. In this study, the acquisition of English learners collocations error classification, analysis, come some revelation helps to second language teaching. First, teachers should be the mother tongue and second language comparative analysis, can to some extent reduce the Native Language Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition; Secondly, vocabulary teaching should be placed in a certain scene, Chunk vocabulary teaching has significance.

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