Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies ›› 2015, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (4): 49-53.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2015.04.007

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Attitudes toward Corpus Use in Foreign Language Writing: A Survey of Chinese Tertiary Level Students

ZHANG Ying, LEI Lei   

  • Published:2020-07-25

Abstract: This study reports a survey of Chinese tertiary-level students’ attitudes toward corpus use in EFL writing after a foreign language writing course. The results showed that the Chinese learners were positive toward corpus use in foreign language writing and they would like to use corpus for foreign language writing in the future. The learners held that the corpus concordancing techniques were easy to learn and they were of help to vocabulary learning. However, the learners found that it would be difficult for them to analyze the data if the returned concordance lines were large in number. This study is the first research at home that investigates the learners’ attitudes toward corpus use in foreign language writing. The findings are significant in that it provides practical guidelines for the teaching and learning of foreign language writing.

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