Chinese College Students Tense Preference in Written English

摘要：

　　This paper provides a corpus-based contrastive analysis of Chinese college students tense preference in written English.The distribution of eight major tenses in Brown Corpus and CLEC are fist calculated,and then a comparative study of the tense distribution in the two corpora is done.A questionnaire is also conducted to look into the causes for tense preference in Chinese college students written production.The major findings are:Simple present tense and present progressive tense are much preferred by Chinese students in temporal expression,other tense types less favored.And this might be attributed to the complexity and acquisition order of a particular tense,L1 transfer and avoidance strategy etc.

关键词： College English writing tense preference corpus

作者: Shuai HU

作者单位: Bohai University, Jinzhou, Liaoning, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: Conference on Creative Education (创新教育国际学术会议(CCE2012))

会议地点: 上海

会议语种:英文

页码: 663-666

在线出版日期: 2012-04-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）