Based on the Asian Corpus of English (ACE) and the British National English (BNC), I investigated the features of discourse marker (DM) so in English as lingua franca (ELF) by comparing it with its use in nati...
supported by the Supporting Plan for Young Backbone College Teachers of Henan Province(No.2010GGJS-042)
This study was designed to explore the issue of request strategies in Chinese settings by establishing corpora of video clips of contemporary Chinese teledramas. The present study chose short sequences of video clips ...
Cultural models are culturally-formed cognitive templates, which stem from and determine human understanding, reasoning and related activities of a given social group. The study of cultural models has been justified t...
The study investigates the literal and non-literal uses of nine dimension adjectives in academic speaking and writing based on MICASE as an academic speaking corpus and Hyland as an academic writing corpus.The nine di...
The present paper examines gender effects on the use of emotion vocabulary in SECCL.The study reveals both inter-group and intra-group differences in the use of English emotion words by the female and male Chinese EFL...
The synonyms'relation'and'relationship'are very confusing for English learners,and this paper deliberately chooses this pair of synonyms as the investigatory case.The investigating scope covers four dictionaries for a...
The present paper carries a corpus-based study on the use of adverbial conjuncts in order to reveal the difference between Chinese EFL learners and native speakers. It is based on two corpora of CLEC and LOB. Accordin...
This paper makes a detailed study on the Chinese learners' use of almost and nearly by comparing the evidence from CLEC, WECCL and LOB. The findings show there are some differences in the learners' and the native spea...
The present paper makes a detailed comparison about the use and collocation of'keep'between LOB and SLESSON.It reveals the authentic use of'keep'and offers a model to vocabulary teaching assisted by corpora.It also in...