Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Xin-Ru Wu
• Min-Hsiung, Hung

Titel

Corpus-based examination of sentence structures in Taiwanese elementary Mandarin textbooks: Implications for language education

Ist Teil von

• Jiao ke shu yan jiu, 2023-08, Vol.16 (2), p.43

Ort / Verlag

Taipei: National Academy for Educational Research

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Sentence structure is crucial in language education. However, corpus-based research categorizing and quantifying sentence structures in Mandarin elementary textbooks are insufficient. To fill this gap, this study examined 18,081 simple sentences extracted from textbooks by three different publishers, categorizing them into 40 unique sentence patterns. The most prevalent patterns (S + V + O, S + V + O + V, and S + V + C) accounted for nearly 50% of the sentence structures in the corpus. The ensuing seven categories (S + V, “Shi” sentences, S + A, existence sentences, T + S + V + O, S + P + V + O, and “Ba” sentences) constituted approximately 85% of the total structures. These findings indicate a clear progression in sentence complexity with advancing grade levels, reflecting a pedagogical trajectory from simplicity to complexity. Despite examining various textbook versions, the study found minimal variation in sentence patterns across the three publishers. This research culminates with a proposed sentence lear