A Comparative Study on Verb-Noun Collocation Errors of Chinese EFL Learners with Different Language Proficiency
Journal: Journal of literature and art studies
Year: 2023

This study presents a comparative analysis of verb-noun collocation errors made by Chinese EFL learners with different language proficiency.Linguistic data from two sub-corpora of CLEC (Chinese Learner English Corpus, Gui & Yang, 1999) consist of the compositions written freely by Chinese senior high school students (ST2) and the 3rd-and 4th-year English majors of Chinese universities (ST6).The study results show that four types of verb-noun collocation errors are frequently made due to incorrec