The Tendencies of Overpassivisation and Overuse of Be Verbs in the Writing of Chinese Learners of English and Applications for Practice

Pae, Hye K.; Sun, Jing; Xia, Detong

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-5332-2_8

Challenges Encountered by Chinese ESL Learners 2022

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-5332-2_8

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The Tendencies of Overpassivisation and Overuse of Be Verbs in the Writing of Chinese Learners of English and Applications for Practice

Hye K. Pae

Jing Sun

Detong Xia

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Going for -ing or -en? A Puzzle about Adjectival Participles for Learners of English

Pae

Sun

et al. 2023

Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics

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This study investigates how learners of English process adjectival participles in both attributive and predicative positions within sentences in order to identify whether difficulties associated with participles stem from learner-specific or English-specific characteristics. A Chinese-speaking group and a mixed language group participated in Study 1 that used the target sentence in English as L2 without contextual cues. A subgroup of the Chinese participants took part in Study 2 that used target sentences with contextual cues. Results showed that the two groups’ performance was different in the use of pre-nominal attributive adjectival participles after controlling for English proficiency (Study 1). Contextual cues did not facilitate Chinese learners’ performance (Study 2). The target word frequency effects disappeared when contextual cues were provided. These findings suggest that the complexities of adjectival participles reside not only in the linguistic characteristics of English, but also in the learner characteristics of L1 background and English proficiency.

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Going for -ing or -en? A Puzzle about Adjectival Participles for Learners of English

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Sun

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Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics

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The Tendencies of Overpassivisation and Overuse of Be Verbs in the Writing of Chinese Learners of English and Applications for Practice

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Going for -ing or -en? A Puzzle about Adjectival Participles for Learners of English

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