Through analyzing the frequent cases of negative transfer in Chinese intermediate and advanced English learners,the differences between Chinese and English metaphor are pointed out to be the prime causes,which further prove the significance of study on differences between Chinese and English metaphor at intermediate and advanced stage of English learning.

To the majority of intermediate-advanced English learners,the acquisition of different associative meanings of English and Chinese words exerts great difficulties,hence develops into Achilles heel.

A Corpus-based Study on the Verb-Noun Collocation Errors of Chinese Advanced Learners of English;

Based on the theoretical framework of interlanguage pragmatics and the speech act of apology, this thesis endeavours to make a study of speech act of apology to describe and analyze the selection of apology strategies by Chinese learners of English at various levels of linguistic proficiency, as compared with that of the native American .

The Effect of Input Enhancement and Output on the Acquisition of English Relative Clauses for Chinese English Learners;

This paper attempts to conduct a corpus-based study of amplification adverbs used by Chinese English learners.

This study investigated the impact of the Length Approach on the use of meta-cognitive strategies for Chinese English learners, by comparing learners’meta-cognitive strategy use before the Length Approach treatment with that after the treatment.