The Factors Affecting the Verb Pattern Errors Writing of Students in EFL Chinese College: A Case Study of Non-English Major
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This research aimed to describe verb pattern errors and examine the factors affecting verb pattern errors in English writings committed by EFL Chinese college non-English major students. This article was a combination of quantitative and qualitative research. The error analysis method was used to guide the steps, which are collecting errors from students’ writing tests, identifying errors, describing errors, and explaining errors. The research sample was 44 students’ writings of non-English majors. The research instruments were a writing test and a set of questionnaires.
The finding showed 11 categories of verb pattern errors existing and verb pattern errors (33.33%) were the most serious. Surface structure taxonomy was adopted to analyze the errors’ forms, and the percentage of each error was omission (36.78%), addition (32.18%), misformation (29.89%), and misordering (1.15%). Based on the questionnaires, the factors affecting verb pattern errors concluded that intralingual interference stemming from overlooking cooccurrence restrictions was the main reason. L1 interference because of collocational errors was the secondary reason. The result of the questionnaire also showed that the materials used in English class were a significant factor affecting verb pattern errors. This study provided teachers and researchers with some suggestions that cooccurrence restrictions, collocational rules, and teaching materials in future English teaching should be paid special attention.
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