Chapter One Introduction
11 Research backgrounds
Because of the small amount of words, it seems that it will be easy for learners to use English article, but as a matter of fact, the usage is quite complicated involved by semantic concept relating to existential and referential meanings, and discourse concept relating to cohesion and situation,as well as grammar concept relevant with countability and singular and plural (Zhou Baoguo2017: Preface 1). Distinguishing between these blending concepts has given extreme cognitive burden to those learners who are learning English as a Foreign Language (EFLs),what’s more, EFLs, being influenced by their mother tongues and interlanguage, would continuously change their hypothesis of article usage at different learning stages while theyare learning English articles. As stated by Peter Master (1990) “the English article system isone of the most difficult aspects of English grammar for nonnative speakers and one of the latest to be fully acquired.” As a result, based on the complicated usage and influence by learners’ mother tongues, there are also some scholars conservatively believed that, it is impossible for EFLs to completely acquire all the correct usage of English articles. Such phenomenon has drawn scholars and researchers’ attention to make detailed study on English articles continually, and keep their interest and passion on English articles study for a longtime.
11探讨背景
因为少量的话说,看起来这将是容易的学习者使用英语文章,但是作为一个事实,使用相当复杂,涉及语义概念有关存在和参考意义,话语概念涉及凝聚力和情况,以及语法概念相关与可数性和单数和复数(周Baoguo2017:前言1)。区分这些混合概念给了极端的认知负担那些学习者,学习英语作为外语(EFLs),更重要的是,EFLs,受制于自己的母语和中介语,会不断改变他们的假设在不同学习阶段的文章使用在他们的学习英语的文章。如上所述,彼得大师(1990)“英语是一条系统中最难的英语语法关于非本地的扬声器和一个最新的全面收购。“结果,基于复杂的用法和作用通过学习者的母语,也有一些学者认为,保守不可能完全获得EFLs所有正确的使用英语的文章。这种现象已经引起学者和探讨者的关注使详细探讨在英语文章,让他们不断地兴趣和激情在英语文章探讨长期。
1.1.1 Linguistics and methodology backgrounds
English articles are mainly used before nouns, so it is necessary to dig into the basicproperties of nouns before discussing characteristics of English articles. Nouns in anylanguage have two types of meaning, one is denotative and the other is referential. Only thereferential meaning of nouns is related to the articles use. There are four kinds of Reference ofnouns, including definite, indefinite, non-referential, and generic. Based on relativedescriptive and pedagogical grammar (Zhou Baoguo 2017: 15), the available collocations of articles and nouns about those four kinds of reference are shown as following tables: From the above four tables, each referential type can be expressed by no less than onepattern, and from the aspect of collocation of articles and nouns, one pattern can be used toexpress various reference. Such phenomenon shows one important feature of English articleswhich is the relationship between the form of articles and their functions is not one to one,neither one to many, but many to many. Specific speaking, one pattern can not only indicateone function; vice versa, one function can be expressed by more than one pattern. It’s known that, it could be easy to acquire the linguistic structures or features in which one pattern canonly express one function and vice versa, for its low degree of acquisition difficulty andcognitive burden. As for those one to many structures and features, the acquisition will bemore difficult, and the cognitive burden will be heavier, but for such many to many grammaritems like English articles, it ，英语论文，英语论文范文
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