A Study On Lexicogrammatical Cohesive Error Analysis In Writing And Its Implications For College English Writing Teaching

Language is a complicated tool used for communication and language learning is a slow and arduous process of trial-and-error testing. Making errors is an unavoidable phenomenon in Second Language Acquisition (SLA). It is by error analysis (EA) and error correction that learners slowly succeed in establishing closer and closer approximation to the system used by native speakers of the language. The data for EA from language learners'sentences and utterances in the target language were examined for evidence of specific language-learning strategies and processes in an attempt to develop a more comprehensive theory of second language learning. Scholars at home and abroad have made considerable researches on the production, features and various causes of errors. In recent years, EA has attracted increasingly wide attention and enjoyed increasingly wide appeal because more and more linguists have realized that EA plays a positive role in both second language teaching and learning.Cohesion is an important terminology in text linguistics and the publication of Cohesion in English (1976) co-authored by Halliday and Hasan is a symbol of the establishment of cohesion theory. They divided cohesive devices into five categories and later in their following books, they made some minor revisions about its classification. Although some of their opinions have been revised,...