Errors of Creativity An Analysis of Lexical

Errors of Creativity presents an in-depth analysis of both the sources and characteristics of lexical errors committed by Chinese college students who major in English language. Using theories of the semantic field and componential analysis as the theoretical basis, Errors of Creativity gives new insight into the specific area of error analysis, as well as to the theory and practice of L2 acquisition.

List of tables

vii

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

1

(8)

Background information on EFL students in China

3

(6)

Teaching of English prior to higher education

4

(1)

Teaching of English in colleges and universities

5

(2)

Teaching of English at foreign languages universities

7

(2)

Theories of error analysis

9

(22)

Theories of second language acquisition

9

(5)

The monitor model

10

(1)

Meaning-to-Grammar hypothesis

10

(1)

A concept-oriented approach

11

(1)

The environmental factor

12

(2)

Theories of error analysis

14

(17)

Acquisition/learning hypothesis

15

(1)

Error versus mistake

16

(1)

Contrastive analysis

17

(2)

Language transfer

19

(4)

Non-contrastive analysis

23

(1)

Interlanguage

24

(2)

Previous studies of error analysis

26

(1)

The study of lexical errors

27

(4)

Data processing

31

(18)

The description of writing courses

31

(1)

Data processing

32

(17)

Pilot study of the first set of data

32

(9)

Processing the second set of data

41

(8)

Analysis of lexical errors

49

(36)

Semantic field theory

49

(5)

Semantic field theory

49

(3)

Componential analysis

52

(1)

Collocation

53

(1)

Classification of lexical errors

54

(2)

Framework for analysis

56

(1)

General discussion of lexical errors

57

(28)

Selection of inappropriate items according to the intended meanings

57

(10)

Errors of transitivity/intransitivity

67

(7)

Errors of lexical collocation

74

(11)

Conclusion and general discussion of the findings

85

(22)

Summary of findings

85

(1)

Four different situations affecting the acquisition of lexis

86

(4)

Lexical errors versus grammatical errors in learner's interlanguage

90

(8)

Attitudes toward lexical errors

98

(9)

Appendix 1: Sample essays

107

(6)

Appendix 2: Lexical errors occurring in all sample essays

113

(8)

Bibliography

121

(8)

About the Authors

129

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Errors of Creativity An Analysis of Lexical Errors Committed by Chinese ESL Students

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