Study on the use of the High-Frequency AND BUT OR in Chinese English Learners’ Argumentative Essays Based on Self-built Corpus

摘要

Writing skill is essential in English learning.The present thesis makes an attempt to explore the universal features of English coordinators in argumentative essays of the students in Pre-departure Training Department of BLCU.This is accomplished by conducting a contrastive analysis between the native speaker corpus and a self-built corpus based on the computerized corpora and database software tools.It will also find the difference and the degree of difference between the two corpora.And,it will be detecting the problems behind these performances and the relevant causes,while offering some corresponding solutions from the qualitative perspective.The study turns out that the Chinese English learners "misuse"and "overuse" English coordinators to a certain extent in the writing of argumentative essays compared with the native English speakers,which is mainly attributed to such factors as:language transfer,overgeneralization,the lack of the awareness of stylistic and different ways of thinking between eastern and western people.