22.4037, Qs: Chinese students' production of RCs in speaking

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Subject: 22.4037, Qs: Chinese students' production of RCs in speaking

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Date: 13-Oct-2011
From: Mengfei Zhao [mz049211 at ohio.edu]
Subject: Chinese students' production of RCs in speaking


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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:05:58
From: Mengfei Zhao [mz049211 at ohio.edu]
Subject: Chinese students' production of RCs in speaking

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I want to do a research about Chinese students' production of English 
relative clause in speaking. The subjects will be graduate students 
whose major is English. A lot of work has been done about Chinese 
students' acquisition of English RCs, but most of them are about the 
written form. I want to do a research about the oral production of RC. 

The research questions will be:
1.Whether the advanced learners will make the same mistakes in 
speaking as the mistakes the other students tend to make in written 
form. 
2.Compared to native speaker, which type of RC will be underproduced 
by Chinese advanced English learners?
3.What's the difference between the use of Chinese RCs and the use 
of English RCs when they are speaking?

  The literatures I have read are 
1. Fox and Thompson(2007)
2. Diessel and Tomasello(2000)
3. Bernardo(1979)
4.Chin, Perfetti and Ying(2010)
5.Diessel(2007）

 I am a first year graduate student in Ohio University, which does not 
have so much background information. I have difficulties in finding 
some more articles addressing the oral production of RCs.

Thank you very much! I appreciate your help. 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Syntax





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