Uses of the Light Verb in Chinese EFL Learners’ and English L1 Undergraduates’ Writing: A Corpus-Pattern-Analysis-Based Investigation

In order to facilitate the instruction and acquisition of EFL writing, this paper compares the uses of the light verb get in English writing by Chinese and L1 undergraduates by drawing on insights from the theory of norms and exploitations (TNE). Corpus pattern analysis (CPA) is conducted to analyze...

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Main Authors: Qin Luo, Wulin Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2024-08-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241266932
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