English ditransitive construction is a significant component of Goldberg's construction grammar which is based on cognitive linguistics. It aims to enlighten teachers and learners of SLA. It presents backgrounds a...English ditransitive construction is a significant component of Goldberg's construction grammar which is based on cognitive linguistics. It aims to enlighten teachers and learners of SLA. It presents backgrounds and the basic concepts of Goldberg's construction grammar, depicts what English ditransitive construction is and its semantic constraints, and refers to enlightments of English ditransitive construction on SLA from four perspectives.展开更多
Under the framework of Goldberg’s Construction Grammar, this study analyses the “give” frequency, the preference of the patient argument and errors types with the help of quantitative approach and qualitative analy...Under the framework of Goldberg’s Construction Grammar, this study analyses the “give” frequency, the preference of the patient argument and errors types with the help of quantitative approach and qualitative analysis. It aims at providing senior high school students with some methods to improve their English writing proficiency and yield some suggestions on English foreign language teaching to teachers. The main findings are as follows: (1) Chinese senior high school students overuse the information type of direct objects to express advice on patient argument. However, native speakers use more types of patients;(2) in terms of different language proficiency levels, there are still divergences existing among low level and high level learners. The general tendency is that high level learners have a better understanding of “give” DC than lower learners.展开更多
文摘English ditransitive construction is a significant component of Goldberg's construction grammar which is based on cognitive linguistics. It aims to enlighten teachers and learners of SLA. It presents backgrounds and the basic concepts of Goldberg's construction grammar, depicts what English ditransitive construction is and its semantic constraints, and refers to enlightments of English ditransitive construction on SLA from four perspectives.
文摘Under the framework of Goldberg’s Construction Grammar, this study analyses the “give” frequency, the preference of the patient argument and errors types with the help of quantitative approach and qualitative analysis. It aims at providing senior high school students with some methods to improve their English writing proficiency and yield some suggestions on English foreign language teaching to teachers. The main findings are as follows: (1) Chinese senior high school students overuse the information type of direct objects to express advice on patient argument. However, native speakers use more types of patients;(2) in terms of different language proficiency levels, there are still divergences existing among low level and high level learners. The general tendency is that high level learners have a better understanding of “give” DC than lower learners.
