A Study on College-Level Chinese Students' Use of Conjunctions

• Main Authors: Wu, Jwo Shiun, 吳卓勳
• Other Authors: Vincent W. Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 1995
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81217227656896068524

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 英國語文學研究所 === 83 === The present study was designed to investigate college-level Chinese students' use of English conjunctions. One hundred and thirty-five freshman at National Taiwan Institute of Technology participated in this study. They were given a simulated TOEFL test and a conjunction test. The results show that (1) college- level Chinese students are more competent in using intra- sentential conjunctions than intersentential conjunctions, (2) content familiarity seems not quite significant in helping students to better understand the texts and thus using conjunctions more accurately, and (3) subjects with higher level of English proficiency exhibited greater ability in using conjunctions, both intrasententially and intersententially.