Corpus-based Comparison of Plural First-personal Pronoun in Argu⁃mentative Essays of Chinese EFL Learners and Native Students

• 作者: 徐晓丹
• 来源期刊: 海外英语（下）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（7）
• 所属期刊栏目: 语言学研究
• 页码范围: 116-118
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: H319.3
• 语种: 中文

摘要

The goal of this study is to compare the use of plural forms of the first personal pronouns by native English speakers and Chinese EFL learners in their argumentative essays from the aspect of collocation, based on English native college students'writ?ten-English corpus LOCNESS and Chinese learner corpus of written-English WECCL. The results showed that under the influence of the oral features of written English of Chinese EFL learners, the transferability of native language, and the collective value of Chi?nese culture, Chinese EFL learners overuse the plural forms of the first personal pronoun"we"and"our"in the argumentative es?says and often collocate"we"with auxiliary verbs"should""must", which are not commonly used in argumentative essays of na?tives students.