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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Huang, Yan

Titel

A corpus-based study of tense errors in chinese senior school students' compositions

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Translation from original language as provided by authorVerb tenses, which play a key role in grammar learning, are considered as one of the most important but difficult parts in English grammar system. The usages of tenses are constantly discussed by linguistics, learners and teachers. However, it is common for us to find various misuses of tenses in high school students' compositions. We can find a number of researches related with verb tenses or analysis of tenses errors in some English journals. Pitifully, the number of this kind of researches through the use of corpus is limited. Moreover, most of them focus on university students' tense errors. So the writer began the research of analyzing the tense errors supported by corpus of the compositions from a certain group of high school students. With the hope of getting a clearer picture about the distribution of tenses among high school students, this study investigated into the errors and the causes behind them through the use of a self-built corpus which