A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Use of English Linking Adverbials by Chinese EFL Learners;

The aim of this research is,through a general comparison between learners spoken corpus and the NSs spoken corpus,to probe into the characteristics of Chinese EFL learners with regard to their use of linking adverbials in their speaking,and give an impersonal description about the non-nativeness that the learners demonstrate in the use of linking adverbials.

Based on more comparable corpora, the present study verified some of the previous findings about the use of adverbial connectors by Chinese learners.

This paper reports a corpus-based study on the use of adverbial connectors by Chinese non-English major EFL learners with different English proficiency levels.

One way to improve coherence and clarity in a written text is to signal logical relations between units of the text by means of adverbial connectors.

This article,starting from many English learners misunderstandings over the word “the”,clarifies specifically its uses before the comparative degree of the adjective in three different respects ,and then it indicates the fact that this word can be used not only as a definite article but as an adverrb(demostrative adverb or sand then conjunctive adverb).

Investigation of pragmatic functions of adverbial connectors and English writing