TITLE:
An Empirical Study of “v-ing+n” Structure in Chinese Learners’ Writing: A Corpus-Based Study
AUTHORS:
Lin Zhu
KEYWORDS:
“v-ing+n” Structure, Corpus-Based, Chinese Learners’ Writing
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.12 No.8,
August
23,
2024
ABSTRACT: Although the “v-ing+n” structure in English is widely used, which has attracted the attention of foreign language scholars to do related researches, college students in China still feel it difficult in using “v-ing+n” structure in their speech and writing because there isn’t the equivalent syntactic structure in Chinese. In order to better understand “v-ing+n” structure and use it in a right way, so as to improve college English learners’ application ability of English syntax, the author conducts an experiment lasting for 6 weeks on students’ use of “v-ing+n” structure in writing their composition. Based on qualitative and quantitative method and by comparing the frequency and accuracy of the use of “v-ing+n” in four corpora of two classes constructed by the participants’ composition in pretest and posttest, this study finds that the frequency can be increased and the accuracy can be improved through effective input of the functions of “v-ing+n” form and by doing relevant exercises. The steps of the experiment and the analysis of the result will be illustrated in this paper.