A Comparative Study of Wh-Words in Chinese EFL Textbooks, Elicited Native and Non-Native Speaker Data and Written Native and Non-Native Speaker Corpora

A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School of Humanities of the University of Birmingham for the degree

Autori

• Feifei Zhang

Parametri

• 298 pagine
• 11 ore di lettura

• Pedagogia

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The study offers a corpus-based analysis of "wh" sentences utilized by language learners, examining their presence in textbooks and authentic written discourse. It highlights the versatile nature of "wh" words, which serve multiple functions, including interrogatives, declaratives, and as connectors for subordinate clauses. This exploration sheds light on the complexity of language acquisition and the varied contexts in which "wh" constructions appear.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2015

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