An Exploration of Formulaic Language in Chinese University Students’ Written Texts
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Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter One Theorising Formulaic Language
- Chapter Two Contextualising EFL in Chinese Higher Education
- Chapter Three Formulaic Language in Chinese University Students’ Texts: Identifying
- Chapter Four Formulaic Language in Chinese University Students’ Texts: Analysing
- Chapter Five Formulaic Language in EFL: Students’ Perceptions
- Chapter Six Conclusion and Implications for Teaching
- Appendices
- Appendix 1 First Interview Schedule
- Appendix 2 Second Interview Schedule
- Appendix 3 Examples of Student-Written Texts
- Appendix 4 Interview Coding Categories
- Appendix 5 Student-Identified Formulaic Strings
- Appendix 6 Four-Word Clusters Extracted by Corpus Linguistics Approach
- Appendix 7 Structural and Functional Categorisation of Formulaic Strings
- Appendix 8 Structural and Functional Categorisation of Four-Word Clusters
- Appendix 9 Shared Formulaic Language
- Appendix 10 Selected Examples and Translation for the Interview Analysis
- Index
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Chen, Jiaoyue, author.
Title: An exploration of formulaic language in Chinese university students’
written texts/Jiaoyue Chen.
Description: New York: Peter Lang, 2020.
Revision of author’s thesis (doctoral)—University of Southampton, 2016,
titled An exploration of formulaic language in Chinese university students’ written texts.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019013073 | ISBN 978-1-4331-6961-8 (hardback: alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4331-6962-5 (ebook pdf)
ISBN 978-1-4331-6963-2 (epub) | ISBN 978-1-4331-6964-9 (mobi)
Subjects: LCSH: English language—Study and teaching—Chinese speakers. |
Second language acquisition—Methodology. | English
language—Acquisition—Methodology. | Discourse analysis.
Classification: LCC PE1068.C5 C46 | DDC 428.0071/051—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019013073
DOI 10.3726/b15642
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About the author
Jiaoyue Chen is Lecturer in the School of Foreign Languages at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate modules in English language.
About the book
This is a descriptive study, based on PhD research, that aims to find out what sorts of formulaic language are used by Chinese learners of English and what the learners think about the concept, learning, use and teaching of formulaic language in the EFL context. The author does this by analyzing texts written by two groups of Chinese EFL learners (83 first-year college students and 73 third-year college students) and interviews with 12 focal participants (6 from each group). The main findings are that formulaic language did occur in the learners’ output and that there was a measure of correspondence between the ‘strings’ that the students identified for themselves as holistic units and ‘clusters’ that the researcher identified computationally as frequent. The terms core formulaic language pairs and shared formulaic language were proposed, suggesting a broader view of what is formulaic on the part of the EFL learners. This book ends with a discussion of the implications for teaching practice and the direction for future research on formulaic language in the EFL context.
This eBook can be cited
This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Theorising Formulaic Language
Chapter Two: Contextualising EFL in Chinese Higher Education
Chapter Three: Formulaic Language in Chinese University Students’ Texts: Identifying
Chapter Four: Formulaic Language in Chinese University Students’ Texts: Analysing
Chapter Five: Formulaic Language in EFL: Students’ Perceptions
Chapter Six: Conclusion and Implications for Teaching
Appendix 1: First Interview Schedule
Appendix 2: Second Interview Schedule
Appendix 3: Examples of Student-Written Texts
Appendix 4: Interview Coding Categories
Appendix 5: Student-Identified Formulaic Strings
Appendix 6: Four-Word Clusters Extracted by Corpus Linguistics Approach
Appendix 7: Structural and Functional Categorisation of Formulaic Strings
Appendix 8: Structural and Functional Categorisation of Four-Word Clusters
Appendix 9: Shared Formulaic Language
Appendix 10: Selected Examples and Translation for the Interview Analysis
Figures
Figure 3.1. Prompt for writing task: The benefits of volunteering
Figure 3.2. Prompt for writing task: The Dragon Boat Festival
Figure 3.3. Prompt for writing task: The importance of reading classics
Figure 3.4. A written text sample from a Year 1 student
Figure 3.5. A written text sample from a Year 3 student
Figure 3.6. The Year 1 written texts sample with extracted four-word clusters
Figure 3.7. The Year 3 written texts sample with extracted four-word clusters
Figure 4.1. Structural categories of formulaic language
Figure 4.2. The further structural patterns in each subcategory
Figure 4.3. The functional categories of formulaic language
Figure 4.7. Proportions of the subcategories under the phrasal structure
Figure 4.8. Proportions of the subcategories under the clausal structure
←xi | xii→Figure 4.9. Proportions of the subcategories under the clausal structure
Details
- Pages
- XXII, 308
- Year
- 2020
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781433169625
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781433169632
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781433169649
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433169618
- DOI
- 10.3726/b15642
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2020 (June)
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien, 2020. XXII, 308 pp., 30 b/w ill., 38 tables
