Overuse or underuse
A corpus study of English phrasal verb use by Chinese, British and American university students
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12621759 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Meilin Chen (0009-0002-6245-0851, City University of Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 418-442 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1384-6655 • E-ISSN: 1569-9811 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/ijcl.18.3.07che |
| OpenAlex | W2158581189 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
This study explores Chinese university students’ use of phrasal verbs in comparison with their American and British counterparts by utilizing a corpus of learner English and four native corpora of two English varieties and two genres (argumentative and academic writing). The results show that it is difficult to state whether the Chinese learners of English over- or underuse phrasal verbs in writing because a more striking difference emerges between the British and American students. American students tend to use many more phrasal verbs in both genres than British students and they also use a greater variety of phrasal verbs. Notwithstanding the differences, both American and British students tend to use fewer phrasal verbs in academic writing than in argumentative writing. The learners do not show a fundamental difference from the British students regarding overall frequencies of phrasal verbs; however, the learner-native writer gap does exist between the Chinese and American students
Academic writing · American English · Argumentative · British English · Linguistics · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Artificial Intelligence
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0.78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |