Abstract
Based on contrastive analysis and computer-aided error analysis, this paper uses qualitative and quantitative methods to explore word form errors committed by Chinese non-English majors in their writing, collected in Chinese Learner English Corpus (CLEC). The aim is to offer English learners some help in the methods to improve their English writing proficiency and yield some suggestions on English language teaching. The main findings are as follows: (1) the word form errors account for 29.42% of the total language errors; (2) there is a negative correlation between word form errors and writing quality; (3) there is a significant difference in word form errors committed by college learners of different writing ability. In the end, the reasons for word form errors are analyzed and some pedagogical suggestions are put forward.
Highlights
Based on contrastive analysis and computer-aided error analysis, this paper uses qualitative and quantitative methods to explore word form errors committed by Chinese non-English majors in their writing, collected in Chinese Learner English Corpus (CLEC)
With current advance merits in computers used in linguistics, the powerful ability of storage and processing offers a new way of language error analysis, which gives language researchers the rare opportunity to further contemplate those linguistic errors in their contexts
The minimum occurrence of the errors is 2, and the maximum occurrence is 44. When it comes to word form errors, there are 1349 word form errors which account for 29.42% out of all language errors in the writing sample, and most of word form errors are high frequency words, e.g. medecine for medicine, levle for level
Summary
Based on contrastive analysis and computer-aided error analysis, this paper uses qualitative and quantitative methods to explore word form errors committed by Chinese non-English majors in their writing, collected in Chinese Learner English Corpus (CLEC). The aim is to offer English learners methods to help improve their English writing proficiency and yield some suggestions on English language teaching. With current advance merits in computers used in linguistics, the powerful ability of storage and processing offers a new way of language error analysis, which gives language researchers the rare opportunity to further contemplate those linguistic errors in their contexts. This paper attempts to study word form errors committed by Chinese non-English majors in their writing through computer-aided error analysis in the hope of helping college learners improve their English proficiency
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