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Chapter 4   Results and Discussion

In  the  previous  chapters,  research  instruments,  research  procedure,  data collocation  and  analysis  have  been  discussed.  This  chapter  mainly  presents  the research results and discussions. Section one gives the results of types and frequency of  adjective-noun  collocation  errors,  results  from  interview  and  questionnaire.  In  the second  section,  it  aims  at  answering  the  two  research  questions  that  put  forward  in Chapter  Three  through  the  analysis  of  data  and  the  results  of  questionnaires.  In  this chapter,  the  combination  of  quantitative  analysis  and  qualitative  analysis  is  used  to illustrate the statistics presented in the tables and figures in the previous chapter and a detailed  statement  about  the  hypothesis  of  the  reasons  of  adjective-noun  collocation errors.   

4.1   Results

According  to  James’  (1998)  description  of  errors  and  the  situation  where  the students’  compositions  are,  adjective-noun  collocation  errors  are  divided  into  the following 7 types. The causes of adjective-noun collocation errors are various, so one error may be classified into different types from different perspectives. 1.  Misuse  predicative  adjective.  Some  adjectives  can  be  only  used  as predicative  but  they  are  used  as  attribute.  Most  of  adjectives  are  both  attribute  and predicative. But not all the adjectives can be used as attribute to modify nouns. Some of  them  can  only  be  used  as  predictive  but  they  are  sometimes  used  as  attributive improperly.  2. Misuse noun in adjective-noun collocation. Both this type of errors and type 3 belong to semantic imprecision. When the semantic restriction of noun is ignored or the  noun  is  used  improperly  without  taking  account  of  semantic  factors,  the  error often happens.  

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Conclusion 

The present study presents an error analysis of adjective-noun collocation errors in  compositions  written  by  the  English  majors’  sophomore  in  certain  Normal University. The quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis are combined to present the types, frequency and causes of adjective-noun collocation errors. After the study, a conclusion is presented to give a brief summary of this study by listing major research findings,  pedagogical  implication,  limitations  of  the  research  and  suggestions  for further research.本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。