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The Usage of Hesitation by Chinese Learners of English. A Corpus-Based Study

Author : Michelle Blum
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346506541
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book The Usage of Hesitation by Chinese Learners of English. A Corpus-Based Study written by Michelle Blum and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2019 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 13, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, language: English, abstract: In this small-scope study, a number of hesitation markers of Chinese learners of English were investigated. While other learner groups, such as French learners of English, have been investigated quite thoroughly, Chinese learners have as of yet not had much time in the spotlight. The research question is as follows: "How do Chinese learners of English use hesitation markers?" When thinking about language and what constitutes it, hesitation markers may not be the first thing that comes to mind. Other linguistic factors, such as intensifiers (for example, 'very', 'really' which strengthen the meaning of a message), backchannels ('uh-huh' and other such words used in order to maintain a conversation), and errors (for example, the usage of 'false friends' or other mistakes made by the speaker) may seem a more important topic to investigate. In fact, "hesitation markers are often not admitted within the bounds of lexis and grammar - in authoritative reference works they can be summarily dismissed or all but ignored". However, hesitation markers are in fact quite interesting to study, and what makes them so important is the correlation they have with fluency. Fluency is often named as the aim of a learner of any language - to appear as secure in a language as a native speaker. In general, it can be said that the more fluent a speaker is, the less hesitation they use since many linguistic insecurities fall away with more practice. No matter the specific speaker situation, hesitation markers play a big role in everyday conversations, and all of these factors constitute what makes them worth investigating.

Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching

Author : Mari Carmen Campoy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441182020
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Book Synopsis Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching by : Mari Carmen Campoy

Download or read book Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching written by Mari Carmen Campoy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corpus-Based Approaches to ELT presents a compilation of research exploring different ways to apply corpus-based and corpus-informed approaches to English language teaching. Starting with an overview of research in the field of corpus linguistics and language teaching, various scenarios including academic and professional settings, as well as English as International Language, are described. Corpus-Based Approaches to ELT goes on to put forward several chapters focusing on error analysis using learner corpora and comparable native speaker corpora. Some of these chapters use translations and their original sources, while others compare the production of learners from different L1 in multilingual learner corpora. Also presented are new tools for corpus processing: a query program for parallel corpora, and the provision of tools to implement pedagogical annotation. The last section discuss the challenges and opportunities that multilayered and multimodal corpora may pose to corpus linguistic investigation. This book will be indispensible to those teaching in higher education and wishing to develop corpus-based approaches, as well as researchers in the field of English Language Teaching.

Assessing Chinese Learners of English

Author : Guoxing Yu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137449780
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Assessing Chinese Learners of English written by Guoxing Yu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers researchers from around the world endeavouring to better understand a number of perennial issues in assessing Chinese learners of English, covering topics such as students' test performances, interactional competence and lexical knowledge, students' motivation, teachers' attitudes and assessment policy changes.

Corpus Linguistics

Author : Geoffrey Sampson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441139370
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Corpus Linguistics written by Geoffrey Sampson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corpus Linguistics seeks to provide a comprehensive sampling of real-life usage in a given language, and to use these empirical data to test language hypotheses. Modern corpus linguistics began fifty years ago, but the subject has seen explosive growth since the early 1990s. These days corpora are being used to advance virtually every aspect of language study, from computer processing techniques such as machine translation, to literary stylistics, social aspects of language use, and improved language-teaching methods. Because corpus linguistics has grown fast from small beginnings, newcomers to the field often find it hard to get their bearings. Important papers can be difficult to track down. This volume reprints forty-two articles on corpus linguistics by an international selection of authors, which comprehensively illustrate the directions in which the subject is developing. It includes articles that are already recognized as classics, and others which deserve to become so, supplemented with editorial introductions relating the individual contributions to the field as a whole. This collection of readings will be useful to students of corpus linguistics at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as academics researching this fascinating area of linguistics.

A corpus-based study of the language used in book reviews

Author : Renata Frosztęga
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656986932
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (569 download)

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Download or read book A corpus-based study of the language used in book reviews written by Renata Frosztęga and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 5, , language: English, abstract: The aim of this thesis is to discuss certain aspects of the language of book reviews, stressing the importance and indispensability of a corpus-based approach in any study of this type. The thesis is to show that the register of book reviewing is a specialized language, characterized by specific vocabulary. By this is meant that there exist some words and phrases which tend to be used more frequently here than in other registers, or that some words have a special, narrowed meaning. For this purpose the researcher has compiled her own corpus of book reviews in an electronic form, which provides the foundation for the analysis. This collection of written language samples is referred to as the Do-It-Yourself Book Review Corpus (henceforth, DIY BRC). As regards the source of materials, the reviews come from the websites of popular quality newspapers. In order to ensure the research a relatively high reliability, the linguistic data needs to be as large as possible. Therefore, my corpus (DIY BRC) totals approximately 115 000 words derived from as many as 166 book reviews. The mean sample size is between 660 and 982 words.

Patterns and Meanings of Intensifiers in Chinese Learner Corpora

Author : Chunyan Wang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315473712
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Book Synopsis Patterns and Meanings of Intensifiers in Chinese Learner Corpora by : Chunyan Wang

Download or read book Patterns and Meanings of Intensifiers in Chinese Learner Corpora written by Chunyan Wang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intensification plays a major role in spoken and written interaction, enabling the writer or speaker to express different levels of commitment. This book explores the patterns and meanings of intensifiers in Chinese learner English by ways of comparison with native English. The study is conducted within the theoretical framework of Firthian contextual theory of meaning, Sinclairian model of Extended Units of Meaning (EUM) and Hunston's pattern grammar. The method of contrastive inter-language analysis (CIA) is adopted and the intensifier collocations in learner English and native English are explored by means of quantitative and qualitative analyses of corpora data. This book is the first attempt to investigate the patterning and meaning features of intensifiers systematically with the corpora data in Chinese learner English. Readers will obtain a relatively complete picture of how Chinese learners use intensifiers to realize their attitudinal meanings.

Get-passive in Singaporean English - A Corpus-based Study

Author : Eleni Papadopoulou
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 363888323X
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (388 download)

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Book Synopsis Get-passive in Singaporean English - A Corpus-based Study by : Eleni Papadopoulou

Download or read book Get-passive in Singaporean English - A Corpus-based Study written by Eleni Papadopoulou and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2, University of Sheffield, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction First of all, and before I proceed with the actual description and basic layout of my term paper, it would be quite interesting to quote the thesis that roused by interest and became my first motivation concerning the study of a certain grammatical phenomenon in Singaporean English. As English is the most widely used language in the world, and it is used by at least 750 million people in addition to being the mother tongue of about 350 million people, it is therefore characterized by a great deal of variation. Nevertheless, it is remarkable that although these regional varieties differ from each other in terms of pronunciation and vocabulary, their grammar is significantly similar (cf. BACHE/ DAVIDSEN 1997: 4). Before we can go on to find out whether this assumption is also verified in the English of Singapore, I will present the main sections of my study.The main and most important part of this term paper is based upon a personal corpus- based study, which should from the start be clearly characterized as relatively restrictive and not quite large in size, in order to avoid any further problems and misunderstandings. This study I mentioned above concerns and tries to closely examine the overall frequencies of get- constructions, and to be more specific, we will try to examine the phenomenon of the get- passive in the English of Singapore, always with the hidden desire to finally come up with a reasonable conclusion towards the end of the paper. In order to succeed in this procedure, after having presented in brief the history of Singapore itself, and later on of the English language in this country, we will try to give some short definitions of the most basic notions, which are used in the following pages. Then, we will proceed in describing the corpora,

Pattern Grammar

Author : Susan Hunston
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027222732
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Pattern Grammar written by Susan Hunston and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes an approach to lexis and grammar based on the concept of phraseology and of language patterning arising from work on large corpora. The notion of 'pattern' as a systematic way of dealing with the interface between lexis and grammar was used in Collins Cobuild English Dictionary (1995) and in the two books in the Collins Cobuild Grammar Patterns series (1996; 1998). This volume describes the research that led to these publications, and explores the theoretical and practical implications of the research. The first chapter sets the work in the context of work on phraseology. The next two chapters give several examples of patterns and how they are identified. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss and exemplify the association of pattern and meaning. Chapters 6, 7 and 8 relate the concept of pattern to traditional approaches to grammar and to discourse. Chapter 9 summarizes the book and adds to the theoretical discussion, as well as indicating the applications of this approach to language teaching. The volume is intended to contribute to the current debate concerning how corpora challenge existing linguistic theories, and as such will be of interest to researchers in the fields of grammar, lexis, discourse and corpus linguistics. It is written in an accessible style, however, and will be equally suitable for students taking courses in those areas.

Fluency and Disfluency Across Languages and Language Varieties

Author : Liesbeth Degand
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
ISBN 13 : 2875587692
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (755 download)

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Book Synopsis Fluency and Disfluency Across Languages and Language Varieties by : Liesbeth Degand

Download or read book Fluency and Disfluency Across Languages and Language Varieties written by Liesbeth Degand and published by Presses universitaires de Louvain. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fluency and disfluency are characteristic of online language production and may be signalled by markers such as filled and unfilled pauses, discourse markers, repeats or self-repairs, which can be said to reflect ongoing mechanisms of processing and monitoring. The Fluency & Disfluency across Languages and Language Varieties conference held at the University of Louvain in February 2017 marked the closing of a five-year research project dedicated to the multimodal and contrastive investigation of fluency and disfluency in (L1 and L2) English, French and French Belgian sign language, with a focus on variation according to language, speaker and genre. The closing conference was intended as an opportunity to further expand the range of languages, language varieties and genres studied from the (dis)fluency perspective. The selection of papers in this volume re ects the diversity of approaches aiming to uncover the ways in which fluency and disfluency are conceived in language production and comprehension and how they are signalled. Topics include methodological challenges in cross-linguistic (dis)fluency research, the role of contextual features in professional and non-professional settings, and the characteristics of fluency and disfluency in second language speech. Of particular importance in all contributions is the ambivalent role of pauses, discourse markers, repeats and other markers, which can be both a symptom of encoding difficulties and a sign that the speaker is trying to help the hearer decode the message. They should thus be interpreted in context to identify their contribution to fluency and/or disfluency, which can be viewed as two sides of the same coin.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

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Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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A Case Study of Respect: Contrastive Aspects in English and Chinese

Author : Anja Schmidt
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638219208
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (382 download)

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Book Synopsis A Case Study of Respect: Contrastive Aspects in English and Chinese by : Anja Schmidt

Download or read book A Case Study of Respect: Contrastive Aspects in English and Chinese written by Anja Schmidt and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2003-09-24 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3 (A), University of Hamburg (IAA), language: English, abstract: One major assumption in the study of emotions is the idea that our understanding of emotion metaphors is, to a large extent, based on bodily experience. Although most evidence for this claim has been found in analyses of the English language, Chinese emotions seem to be conceptualised to a large degree in the same way as in English. Previous studies on the concepts of ANGER and HAPPINESS come to the conclusion that English and Chinese only vary in minor aspects, due to cultural differences. But how about the more peripheral type of emotions? Do these show the same metaphorical preferences? Or are they even more culture-specific? In this paper I will show the different metaphorical realization of RESPECT in English and Chinese and offer some suggestions as to why these differences occur. For this analysis I have considered a set of about 140 sentences and idioms in English and Chinese. After considering these sample sentences, it will become evident that these two languages most likely follow the same major metaphorical principles. English and Chinese share important concepts such as GOOD IS UP or THE OBJECT OF RESPECT IS A VALUABLE COMMODITY. And this shows in the metaphorized expressions of respect. It seems, though, that Chinese is far more restricted in the use and meaning of these respect metaphors.

Risk-taking by Chinese second language learners of English on an International Foundation Course at a British University

Author : Rene Tetzner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638487504
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Risk-taking by Chinese second language learners of English on an International Foundation Course at a British University by : Rene Tetzner

Download or read book Risk-taking by Chinese second language learners of English on an International Foundation Course at a British University written by Rene Tetzner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-04-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 12 out of 16, University of Bedfordshire (Business School), 74 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This dissertation seeks to compare risk-taking behaviour in response to activities initiated by the teacher by Chinese, Greek and other second language learners of English. A common perception of Chinese students is that they regard the learning of English as important not for communication purposes but rather to enable them to gain access to higher education and therefore better career chances. Another reason for their relatively poor speaking and listening skills could be the fact that many Chinese students hold the false belief that learning English merely involves memorising words, individual structures and grammatical rules. Because of their hesitation or unwillingness to take risks in the language classroom, teachers often reach the conclusion that their level of English is lower than it really is. The shy attitude of many Chinese students may create irritation and frustration among their fellow students in the classroom. Greek students seem to be the opposite of Chinese students. Reluctance to take risks means that these students make less progress in their English learning and therefore it takes longer for them to learn English. On the other hand, students who are taking more risks have a better chance of learning English more quickly. Risk-taking behaviour in the classroom will be addressed in this dissertation, with a particular focus on Chinese students, and possible explanations will be discussed.

Corpora in Language Acquisition Research

Author : Heike Behrens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027234766
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (347 download)

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Book Synopsis Corpora in Language Acquisition Research by : Heike Behrens

Download or read book Corpora in Language Acquisition Research written by Heike Behrens and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corpus research forms the backbone of research on children's language development. Leading researchers in the field present a survey on the history of data collection, different types of data, and the treatment of methodological problems. Morphologically and syntactically parsed corpora allow for the concise explorations of formal phenomena, the quick retrieval of errors, and reliability checks. New probabilistic and connectionist computations investigate how children integrate the multiple sources of information available in the input, and new statistical methods compute rates of acquisition as well as error rates dependent on sample size. Sample analyses show how multi-modal corpora are used to investigate the interaction of discourse and linguistic structure, how cross-linguistic generalizations for acquisition can be formulated and tested, and how individual variation can be explored. Finally, ways in which corpus research interacts with computational linguistics and experimental research are presented.

A Reference Grammar of Chinese

Author : Chu-Ren Huang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316395251
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book A Reference Grammar of Chinese written by Chu-Ren Huang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Reference Grammar of Chinese is a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the linguistic structure of Chinese, covering all of the important linguistic features of the language and incorporating insights gained from research in Chinese linguistics over the past thirty years. With contributions from twenty-two leading Chinese linguists, this authoritative guide uses large-scale corpora to provide authentic examples based on actual language use. The accompanying online example databases ensure that a wide range of exemplars are readily available and also allow for new usages to be updated. This design offers a new paradigm for a reference grammar where generalizations can be cross-checked with additional examples and also provide resources for both linguistic studies and language learning. Featuring bilingual term lists, this reference grammar helps readers to access relevant literature in both English and Chinese and is an invaluable reference for learners, teachers and researchers in Chinese linguistics and language processing.

Chinese Language Resources

Author : Chu-Ren Huang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031389131
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Language Resources written by Chu-Ren Huang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-19 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the accumulation of research experience and knowledge over the past 30 years, this volume lays out the research issues posed by the construction of various types of Chinese language resources, how they were resolved, and the implication of the solutions for future Chinese language processing research. This volume covers 30 years of development in Chinese language processing, focusing on the impact of conscientious decisions by some leading research groups. It focuses on constructing language resources, which led to thriving research and development of expertise in Chinese language technology today. Contributions from more than 40 leading scholars from various countries explore how Chinese language resources are used in current pioneering NLP research, the future challenges and their implications for computational and theoretical linguistics.

A Comparative Study of Wh-Words in Chinese EFL Textbooks, Elicited Native and Non-Native Speaker Data and Written Native and Non-Native Speaker Corpora

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Author : Feifei Zhang
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504910869
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book A Comparative Study of Wh-Words in Chinese EFL Textbooks, Elicited Native and Non-Native Speaker Data and Written Native and Non-Native Speaker Corpora written by Feifei Zhang and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents a corpus-based analysis of the use of “wh” sentences by language learners, in language textbooks and in authentic written discourse. It focuses on the polysemeous nature of “wh” words, which can be used as interrogatives, declaratives and to introduce subordinate clauses. The analysis of “wh” sentences in EFL textbooks showed that there are more prototypical examples at low proficiency levels. When teaching the interrogative, textbooks focus almost exclusively on grammatical words, particularly at the beginners’ level. The analysis of “wh” sentences elicited from Chinese speaking learners of English and Expert users of English suggested that the prototypical structure is very strong in both sets of data, although native speakers tend to use more prefabricated chunks of language. The analysis of “wh” sentences from native speakers and non-native speakers’ written corpora suggested that subordinate clauses are strongly present in both corpora, except for the word “why” in non-native speakers’ data. The use of different words occurring immediately after “wh” words in the two corpora can be explained by (1) the relatively small vocabulary size of the L2 speakers; (2) non-native speakers’ lack of awareness of restricted collocations; (3) L1 transfer; (4) over/under-generalization of rules and (5) textbooks.

Researching Collocations in Another Language

Author : Andy Barfield
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230245323
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Researching Collocations in Another Language written by Andy Barfield and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together original research in the four areas of L2 collocation learner corpora, L2 collocation lexicographic and classroom materials, L2 collocation knowledge assessment, and L2 collocation learner processes. Each area is covered by three research chapters and a dedicated commentary chapter by experts in the field.