Misuse analysis of the lexical intensifiers in written expressions of English learners / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

The analysis of the written expressions contributed by four groups from a certain university indicates that it is relatively common for English learners to misuse lexical intensifiers in their compositions.Improper use of parts of speech,misuse of confusing intensifiers,spelling er-rors,adverb stacking,improper choice of intensifiers,mismatch of collocations,wrong word order,misuse of the comparative and modifiers,misuse of modal expressions and over-repetition are the main types of misuse of lexical intensifiers.Interference of the mother tongue,thinking in Chinese,carelessness and poor command of the lexical intensifiers of the target language are the chief causes.Learners should develop the habit of thinking in English,pay attention to the contrastive comparison between lexical intensifiers of the mother tongue and the target language,and have con-scious relevant training to improve the accuracy of using the lexical intensifiers of the target language.