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1. 1. A Linguistic Analysis of the Written Production of Second Language Learners : The Variation of Article Usage by Adult Chinese Learners of English

   University essay from Engelska

   Author : Junyu Wu; [2014]
   Keywords : second language acquisition; corpus linguistics; keyword analysis;

   Abstract : This study aims to test Robertson’s lexical transfer principle, which posits that Chinese learners use demonstratives (particularly this) and the numeral one as markers of definiteness and indefiniteness. This is tested by analysing Chinese learners’ written production collected from the Spoken and Written English Corpus of Chinese Learners 2. READ MORE