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Direct linkLin Wang – SAGE Open, 2024
Based on the bilingual children's and adults' code-switching (CS) dependency treebanks, this paper investigates the syntactic features and pragmatic functions of the Chinese-English bilingual children's CS and compares them with bilingual adults'. It is mainly found that (1) As to the bilingual children, the mixed sentences present the longest…
Descriptors: Syntax, Pragmatics, Bilingual Students, Code Switching (Language)
Xia Gao – SAGE Open, 2024
The introduction of modal verbs in English textbooks across levels in China was surveyed and compared with Chinese learners' use in writing to explore the potential impact of textbook introduction on learners' real use. The results have revealed: (1) divergences between the sequence of modal verb presentation in textbooks and their frequency order…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Textbooks, Verbs
Chen, Shukun; Xuan, Winfred Wenhui; Yu, Wei – SAGE Open, 2022
Adopting the framework of projection from Systemic Functional Linguistics, the present study explored the deployment of projection in summary writing by three levels of college EFL learners from a university in mainland China. Data were collected from one summary writing by three classes of different levels' learners in an English program from a…
Descriptors: Verbs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Qin Luo; Wulin Ma – SAGE Open, 2024
In order to facilitate the instruction and acquisition of EFL writing, this paper compares the uses of the light verb "get" in English writing by Chinese and L1 undergraduates by drawing on insights from the theory of norms and exploitations (TNE). Corpus pattern analysis (CPA) is conducted to analyze the data taken from two comparable…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Semantics
Li, Lexi Xiaoduo – SAGE Open, 2022
This study demonstrates how native and learner corpora can enhance modal verb treatment in English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) textbooks used in mainland China. Data analysis compares modal verbs in the textbook and native corpus by referring to distributional features, semantic functions and co-occurring constructions; and the analysis of the…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Al Zumor, Abdulwahid Qasem – SAGE Open, 2021
Self-translation of academic texts has received little attention thus far in literature, particularly in terms of how cross-linguistic features are rendered into target language. This study undertakes to examine the various linguistic strategies of rendering English passive structures by Arab academics when they translate their research articles'…
Descriptors: Translation, Arabs, Verbs, Periodicals
