An Interlanguage-based Error Analysis of Senior high School Students’ Use of the adverbial Clause 

Abstract In recent years, English writing ability reflects comprehensive abilities of cognition, critical thinking and linguistic applying。 Yet the learners are likely to make inevitable language errors during the second language learning。 As students do not perform very well in writing parts of National Matriculation English Test (NMET) over these years, it is high time that teacher found, analyzed and explained the errors students are making in their writings systematically。 Actually, error analysis is a useful tool for teachers to have a better understanding of students’ acquisition of target language and make timely improvements to help students。88481

This thesis firstly clarifies the purpose and significance of the research, and then introduces studies and theories on adverbial clause, Error Analysis (EA) and Interlanguage (IL)。 In the empirical part, the thesis analyzes 160 compositions written with the same topic by the students in Grade One and Two, altogether 746 errors are identified, and then a classification of the errors is made first, followed by a discussion of the factors leading to the errors of adverbial clause in the composition。 The analysis shows that errors in conjunctive word choosing and errors in syntactic structure are two major types, mother language negative transfer and interlanguage fossilization have a great effect on the language learners。

At last, some relevant pedagogical suggestions to help students avoid making errors in English writing are put forward on the ground of the analysis and discussion。

Key words: adverbial clause, interlanguage, error analysis, senior high school student

基于中介语理论的高中生状语从句使用错误分析

摘 要一直以来，英语写作能力综合反映着学习者的认知能力、思考能力和语言文字运用能力。在第二语言的学习过程中，学习者经常不可避免地犯着语言错误。从近几年的高考来看，学生在英语写作这一部分中的表现不尽如人意。所以教第二语言的教师应该及时地发现并系统地分析学生在写作中所犯的错误。事实上，错误分析是老师更好地了解学生二语习得情况并做出及时调整以促进学生学习的好工具。

本文先阐述了研究的目的和意义，然后介绍了有关状语从句，错误分析和中介语的理论和研究。在实证部分通过对160篇学生围绕同一命题所写的作文采样分析，将他们作文中出现的746个错误分类，并对其中的状语从句使用错误的原因进行了分析和讨论。研究显示，连接词的误用和语法结构的误用是两大错误类型，而母语负迁移和中介语僵化对语言学习者的影响较大。

本文最后就研究结果和实际现状针对高中生提出了一些英语写作教学的建议和措施，来帮助学生规避错误。

毕业论文关键词：状语从句；中介语；错误分析；高中生

Contents

1。 Introduction 1

1。1 Research Background 1

1。2 Significance of the Study 1

1。3 Research Questions 2

2。 Literature Review 3

2。1 The Introduction to Adverbial Clause 3

2。1。1 Definition of Adverbial Clause 3

2。1。2 Definition of Conjunctive Word 3

2。1。3 Definition of Errors in Adverbial Clause 3

2。2 Introduction to Interlanguage