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1、PunctuationMarkErrorsinEnglishMajors’Writing 【Abstract】Punctuationmarks,closelyrelatedtothecontentsofthearticle,playanirreplaceableroleinthearticles.Inmoderntimes,mostresearchesonlyfocusonthefunctionsandregularitiesofpunctuationmarkdevelopment,whileafewresearc
2、hesareaboutthepunctuationmarkerrors,especiallypunctuationmarkerrorsinEnglishmajors’writing.ThisthesischoosesEnglishmajorsinUSST(UniversityofShanghaiforScienceandTechnology)asresearchsubjects,investigatesandanalyzesthereasonsforthepunctuationmarkerrors,inanattem
3、pttoseekforimplicationstostudents’learningandEnglishteaching. 【Keywords】punctuationmark;erroranalysis;Englishmajor Aslanguagelearners,Englishmajorstudentsnotonlyneedtomastertheknowledgeofvocabularyandgrammar,butalsoarerequiredtograspallaspectsofprofessionalkn
4、owledge.However,punctuationmarksdon’tgetdeservedattention,onthecontrary,areneglected.ResearcherswhostudythepunctuationerrorsinEFLlearners’writingonlyregardmiddleschoolstudentsorcollegeEnglishlearnersassubjects(LvYan,2006).Afactexiststhatvariouspunctuationmarker
5、rorscanbeseeninthewritingofEnglishmajors,soitisimperativetofindfactorsofpunctuationmark. 1.Thedesignoftheresearchandmethodology InordertorevealthestatusquoofthepunctuationmarkuseofEnglishmajors,erroranalysisisemployed. Researchquestions: ?。?)Whatarethepunctu
6、ationmarkerrorsthatEnglishmajorsmake? ?。?)Whatisthefrequencyofeachkindoferror? ?。?)Whatarepossiblereasonsfortheerrors? Datacollection Theresearchemployscorpus-basedapproachanddevelopswiththeaidofantconc.execorpusanalysissoftware.Corpusissetupbycollectingcompo
7、sitionsofEnglishmajorsfromClass2010,Class2011andClass2012.Fivehundredandninecompositions(thetotalnumberofwordsis152,291)writtenbyEnglishmajorsinEnglishwritingcourseandintegratedEnglishcoursearecollected.Alloftheselectedcompositionsarescoredandscorestakeup30%oft
8、hefinalgrades.Studentsattachmuchimportancetothesecompositions.Afterstudyingtheselectedcompositions,itshowsthatpunctuationmarkerrorsofoveruse,absenceandmisuseallappearinthewr