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1. 6. Inter- and intralingual errors in Chinese students' compositions : A case study

   Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Författare :David Björkegren; [2018]
   Nyckelord :Second language acquisition; interlingual errors; intralingual errors; Chinese learners of English; Error Analysis; Andraspråksinlärning; förstaspråksinterferens; målspråksinterferens; kinesiska studenters engelska; felanalys;

   Sammanfattning : In this quantitative study, time controlled written English compositions by 39 Chinese university majors of English were analyzed by means of Error Analysis (EA) in order to find out what grammatical errors were made. It investigates errors made by more than one fifth of the participants, in order to see whether they can be ascribed to either interlingual or intralingual influence. LÄS MER

3. 7. A Comparative Study of Shell Nouns in English Academic Writing by Chinese and Swedish Authors

   Master-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Författare :Yishan Gao; [2018]
   Nyckelord :shell nouns; academic writing; genre; first language transfer;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to examine factors that influence the use of shell nouns in the writing production by Chinese and Swedish authors. Based on previous studies of shell nouns, this research establishes a theoretical model and a hypothesis is put forward: Though writing in the same genre, Chinese and Swedish authors have different ways of adopting shell nouns partially due to first language transfer. LÄS MER

4. 8. The hierarchy of Chinese grammar: A cross-sectional study of L2 Chinese within Processability Theory

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

   Författare :Magnus Brolin; [2017]
   Nyckelord :PT; Processability Theory; Second Language Acquisition; SLA; Chinese; Mandarin; Swedish; grammar; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : Processability Theory (PT) is a well-established theoretical framework within the field of Second Language Acquisition, which describes the development of acquiring language as a process of acquiring procedural skills. The procedural skills are necessary for the learner being able to process different grammatical structures of the target language, and these are obtained by the learner through available input and the given learning device. LÄS MER

5. 9. Foreign language anxiety among Chinese senior middle schoolstudents : A case study

   Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

   Författare :Philip Landström; [2015]
   Nyckelord :Foreign Language Anxiety FLA ; English as a Foreign Language EFL ; Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale FLCAS ; Chinese learners of English; Foreign Language Anxiety FLA ; Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale FLCAS ; språkängslan; engelska som främmande språk; kinesiska engelskstudenter;

   Sammanfattning : Anyone who has been learning a new language knows the feeling of anxiety when facedwith the task to use it in the classroom and in real life. Foreign Language Anxiety isconcept developed by Horwitz et al. (1986) to describe and measure this specific form ofanxiety. LÄS MER

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

   Kandidat-uppsats, Engelska

   Författare :Junyu Wu; [2014]
   Nyckelord :second language acquisition; corpus linguistics; keyword analysis;

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER