Chuang, Fei-Yu and Nesi, Hilary (2006) An analysis of formal errors in a corpus of L2 English produced by Chinese students. Corpora, 1 (2). pp. 251-271. doi:10.3366/cor.2006.1.2.251 ISSN 1749-5032.

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Abstract

This paper describes the investigation of a small corpus of writing of English for academic purposes produced by L1 speakers of Mandarin. The investigation involved the development of a tagset for the identification of formal errors in the corpus, and the subsequent analysis of these errors with a view to creating remedial grammar materials for Chinese students studying in the medium of English. Some past approaches to error analysis are discussed, the process of developing the tagging system is described, and error types are identified, categorised, quantified, described and (as far as possible) explained.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PE English
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	English language -- Study and teaching -- Chinese speakers., English language -- Errors of usage., English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Chinese, Second language acquisition.
Journal or Publication Title:	Corpora
ISSN:	1749-5032
Official Date:	2006
Dates:	Date Event 2006 Published
Volume:	1
Number:	2
Page Range:	pp. 251-271
DOI:	10.3366/cor.2006.1.2.251
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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