Research on Spatial Concept Transfer - the Order of Adverbial Clauses of Time from Chinese English Learners at Different Educational Levels

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  • Xuguang Gu Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61173/y0kchn90

Keywords:

Second Language Acquisition, Spatial Concept Transfer, Ground and Figure, Corpus Linguistics

Abstract

The research on spatial concept transfer as a cognitive paradigm of language transfer aims to explain the factors that learners may encounter in second language acquisition (SLA) and promote the development of SLA. This research uses a corpus-based approach to reveal the features of English learners’ distribution of inflectional order in When, While, and Once-led adverbial clauses of time at different levels of education and to validate the theoretical framework of spatial concept transfer.

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2024-02-19

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