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French and Chinese EFL Learners’ Use of Phrasal Verbs in Academic Writing : A Corpus-based Analysis

Xu, Luyao
(2022)

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Supervisors
Meunier, Fanny
Faculty
Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres
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Master [120] en linguistique, à finalité spécialisée: Linguistics and its Applications for a Multilingual Society
Abstract
With the development of LCR (Learner Corpus Research), there are an increasing number of corpus-based research on English phrasal verbs, including research focus on contrastive studies. For example, some scholars (Liao & Fukuya, 2004; Waibel, 2007; Liu, 2011; Thim, 2012; Gilquin, 2015) compare the use of phrasal verbs in different corpora to explore some non-native characteristics of learners’ use of English phrasal verbs. Hägglund (2001) explores the use of phrasal verbs through the comparison of SWICLE (Swedish sub-corpus of International Corpus of Learner English) corpus with native corpus LOCNESS (The Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays), and observes that Swedish EFL learners perform similarly with natives in writing. Schneider (2004) surveys phrasal verbs in four sub-corpora of ICLE and compares them with the ICE corpus, confirming that learners from Singapore are more willing to use phrasal verbs than native speakers and other ESL learners, while the East African sub-corpus and the West African sub-corpus show obvious resistance to the use of phrasal verbs. Despite the fact that there are abundant corpus research associate with contrastive analysis of phrasal verb use between learners, or between learners and natives, so far, however, little comparison has been made between learners that have very different L1 backgrounds, e.g. Romanic EFL learners v.s. Asian EFL learners. Inspired by Gilquin (2014), who states that research in learner corpus area should introduce more diverse data from different native language backgrounds, this study collects data from French and Chinese components of ICLE corpus, as well as native corpus LOCNESS-US, to compare how phrasal verbs display in learner and native corpora.