A Study of Verb Errors Committed in Written English by Chinese College Students in Taiwan

科大生英語寫作動詞錯誤分析與探究

莊麗雪(Li-Xue Zhuang)

《人文暨社會科學期刊》 7卷1期 (2011/06) Pp. 91-101

https://doi.org/10.7118/JHSS.201106.0091

摘要

英語寫作在英語教學領域裡扮演著一席重要的角色。動詞是一個句子的靈魂。因此本文以英語動詞作爲研究的主要詞類，調查約180位中台灣的科技大學與技術學院學生英語動詞的知識及英語寫作動詞使用的困難。本文首先分析學生造句的錯誤，探究他們使用英語動詞瓶頸之根源。本文提議以對比分析的方法，利用雙語平行語料庫語料來彌補學生英語環境與語言知識的不足，並於最後驗證所建議的教學法效果顯著。

關鍵字

英語寫作 ； 錯誤分析 ； 對比分析 ； 語料庫語言學

並列摘要

The purpose of this study was to expand EFL learner knowledge of languages and to improve writing proficiency. Verbs often convey the main idea of a sentence, and are the soul of all sentences. Thus, verbs were considered a major category in this research. Verb errors constitute the highest proportions of all grammatical errors found in previous studies. However, previous studies have few discussions on verb voice errors and verb usage errors. This article investigates and analyzes Chinese EFL beginning and intermediate college student verb voice errors and verb usage errors. This article proposes using bilingual parallel corpora as a pedagogical solution accordingly. Empirical results prove that the method proposed is indeed effective. The findings of this study have potential to spread to teaching materials and especially to textbooks for foreign language writing.

並列關鍵字

EFL English writing ； error analysis ； contrastive analysis ； corpus linguistics

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