Analysis of Non-English Major Students' English Writing Vocabulary based on Corpus

Min Guo

Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang, 464000, China

Abstract: Writing is one of the four basic skills in foreign language learning, and verbs have always been a major problem for Chinese English learners due to their variety and complexity in usage. This paper analyzes the verb errors in the composition of Chinese learners' corpus, and finds that among all the writing words, the verb has the highest error rate. This shows that Chinese learners have a lot of problems in verb usage learning, which is worthy of our study. Meanwhile, the method of corpus and error analysis is adopted to analyze the verb usage in order to find out the frequency and cause of these errors and provide some help for English teaching.

Keywords: Verb error; Writing vocabulary; Corpus analysis