Chinese Conjunctions in Second Language Learners’ Written Texts

Jia Fei Hong

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73573-3_46

Chinese Conjunctions in Second Language Learners’ Written Texts

Jia Fei Hong^*

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Department of Chinese as a Second Language

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Abstract

In Chinese texts, cohesion refers to grammatical or lexical relationships within sentences and texts. Through these relationships, a series of sentences are connected to form unified texts that are intelligible and meaningful. Various studies have found that cohesion is a crucial factor in readability and reading comprehension, and thus have maintained that cohesion in a text influences comprehension [1]. Among the recent studies on Chinese readability [2–5], most have overlooked the function of discourse connectives for better reading comprehension. In this study, five Chinese conjunction types taken from a Chinese Written Corpus (CWC) were analyzed to determine their semantic features and structures and the reasons for learners’ usage errors. The results of this study will contribute to the development of teaching Chinese writing by using Chinese conjunctions to improve learners’ writing abilities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Chinese Lexical Semantics - 18th Workshop, CLSW 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Yunfang Wu, Qi Su, Jia-Fei Hong
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	510-522
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	9783319735726
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73573-3_46
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	18th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2017 - Leshan, China Duration: 2017 May 18 → 2017 May 20

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	10709 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	18th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2017
Country/Territory	China
City	Leshan
Period	2017/05/18 → 2017/05/20

Keywords

Chinese conjunctions
Semantic features
Semantic structures
Teaching Chinese writing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Hong, J. F. (2018). Chinese Conjunctions in Second Language Learners’ Written Texts. In Y. Wu, Q. Su, & J.-F. Hong (Eds.), Chinese Lexical Semantics - 18th Workshop, CLSW 2017, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 510-522). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10709 LNAI). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73573-3_46

Chinese Conjunctions in Second Language Learners’ Written Texts. / Hong, Jia Fei.
Chinese Lexical Semantics - 18th Workshop, CLSW 2017, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Yunfang Wu; Qi Su; Jia-Fei Hong. Springer Verlag, 2018. p. 510-522 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10709 LNAI).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Hong, JF 2018, Chinese Conjunctions in Second Language Learners’ Written Texts. in Y Wu, Q Su & J-F Hong (eds), Chinese Lexical Semantics - 18th Workshop, CLSW 2017, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 10709 LNAI, Springer Verlag, pp. 510-522, 18th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2017, Leshan, China, 2017/05/18. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73573-3_46

Hong JF. Chinese Conjunctions in Second Language Learners’ Written Texts. In Wu Y, Su Q, Hong JF, editors, Chinese Lexical Semantics - 18th Workshop, CLSW 2017, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Verlag. 2018. p. 510-522. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-73573-3_46

Hong, Jia Fei. / Chinese Conjunctions in Second Language Learners’ Written Texts. Chinese Lexical Semantics - 18th Workshop, CLSW 2017, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Yunfang Wu ; Qi Su ; Jia-Fei Hong. Springer Verlag, 2018. pp. 510-522 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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