TY - GEN
T1 - Chinese Conjunctions in Second Language Learners’ Written Texts
AU - Hong, Jia Fei
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C., under Grant no. MOST 106-2410-H-003-061.
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Chinese conjunctions
KW - Semantic features
KW - Semantic structures
KW - Teaching Chinese writing
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-73573-3_46
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-73573-3_46
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85045299809
SN - 9783319735726
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 510
EP - 522
BT - Chinese Lexical Semantics - 18th Workshop, CLSW 2017, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Wu, Yunfang
A2 - Su, Qi
A2 - Hong, Jia-Fei
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 18th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2017
Y2 - 18 May 2017 through 20 May 2017
ER -