1st Edition

A Corpus Study of Collocation in Chinese Learner English

By Yuanwen Lu Copyright 2017
308 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

308 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

308 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Collocation is an important tool in describing lexical behaviour in language and has received increasing attention in recent years. Based on two corpora: LOCNESS (the Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays) and MLC (the Non-English major Mainland Chinese Learner Corpus), this book explores the features of Chinese learner English with analysis of grammatical and lexical collocations. The... Read more

List of Tables.  Acknowledgements.  List of Abbreviations.  Chapter 1 Introduction  Chapter 2 Review of Related Literature  Chapter 3 Research Methodology  Chapter 4 Quantitative Analysis  Chapter 5 Qualitative Analysis  Chapter 6 Discussion  Chapter 7 Conclusions and Recommendations  Appendices Bibliography  Index

Biography

Yuanwen Lu is an associate professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her research interests include corpus linguistics, second language acquisition and English for specific purposes.