Contents
Abstract
摘 要
1.-Introduction-3
1.1-.Research Background-3
1.2-Purpose and Significance of the Study-3
1.3-Situation and difficulty of study-4
1.4-Structure of the thesis-4
2.-Literature Review-6
2.1-Perspectives on Errors-6
2.1.1-Definition of Errors-6
2.1.2-Errors and Mistakes-6
2.2-Theoretical basis-7
2.2.1 Contrastive Analysis-7
2.2.2 Error Analysis-8
2.3-Lexical Errors-8
2.3.1 Review of Lexical Errors-8
2.3.2 Definition of Lexical Errors-9
2.3.3 Classification of Lexical Errors-9
2.4-Previous Researchers on Lexical Errors at Home and Abroad-12
2.4.1 Previous Researchers in China-12
2.4.2 Previous Researchers Abroad-13
3.-Methodology-14
3.1-Research Questions-14
3.2-Subjects and Data Collection-14
4.-Result and discussion-15
4.1-General Statistics-15
4.2-Specific description of lexical errors-15
4.2.1 Spelling Errors-16
4.2.2 Wrong Choice of Words-16
4.2.3 Collocational Errors-17
4.2.4 Calque-17
4.3-Analysis of the Causes of Lexical Errors Based on the Quantative Description-18
4.3.1Causes of Spelling Errors-18
4.3.2 Causes of Formal Misselections-19
4.3.3 Causes of Mix-up of Part of Speech-19
4.3.4 Causes of Semantic Confusion-19
4.3.5 Causes of collocational errors-20
4.3.6 Causes of calques-20
4.4-Summary of the resaerch-21
5.1-Implications of Pedagogy-21
5.2-Limitation of the Study-23
5.3-Suggestions for Further Study-24
References-25
