A corpus-based learning list of irregular verbs in English.pdf

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1、ICAMEJournalNo.19Acorpus-basedlearninglistofirregularverbsinEnglishEvaGrabowskiandDieterMindtFreieUniversitätBerlinAbstract:ForlearnersofEnglish,irregularverbsrepresentoneofthemostdifficultaspectsofthelanguage.Theyarenormallypresentedintheformofalphab

2、eticallists.Alphabeticallistsdonot,however,takeintoaccounttheactualoccurrenceoftheseverbs.Thearticlepresentsanewcorpus-basedlearninglist,inwhichtheverbsarerankedintheirorderoffrequencyinauthenticEnglish.Thenewlistensuresthatthelearnerhasencounteredthe

3、mostimportantverbs,nomatterwhenthelearningprocessends.Fortheauthorofteachingmaterialsandtheteacher,thenewlistsuppliesanempiricalbasisfortheselectionandgradationofirregularverbsinlanguagecourses.11.ProblemandgoalIrregularverbshauntlearnersofEnglishfrom

4、thebeginningtotheendoftheirstudies.Fullmasteryofirregularverbsseemstobeveryrarelyachieved.ThereareveryfewverblesssentencesinEnglishandirregularverbsbelongtothecoreofEnglish.Inalltypesoftexts,formsofirregularverbsoutnumberthoseofregularverbs.Thelearnin

5、gofirregularverbsisnormallybasedonthewell-knownalphabeticallistswhichrangefromABIDEtoWRITE(Quirketal.1985:115ff.),fromARISEtoWRITE(CollinsCOBUILDEnglishGrammar1990:451)orfromBEtoWRITE(Ungereretal.1989:Iff.).Alltheselistsdifferinthenumberofverbs.Unfort

6、unately,thegrammarsmakenomentionofthebasisonwhichtheselistswerecompiled.Thelistsareprobablybasedonacomparisonofpreviouslistsandtheexperienceand/orintuitionoftheauthor(s)ofagrammar.Alphabeticallistsofirregularverbsareappropriateforlookingup5EvaGrabowsk

7、iandDieterMindtverbforms.Theorderofverbsinalphabeticallistsis,however,ofnoavailinthelearningoftheseverbs,becausetheirorderdoesnotreflecttheirimportanceinlanguageuse.Thisarticleaimsatestablishinganewlearninglistofirregularverbs,aranklistinwhichtheverbs

8、areorderedaccordingtotheirfrequencyinEnglish.Learnerswhousethislistwillbeabletolearnthemostimportantverbsfirstandtheleastimportantoneslast.Iflearningisdiscontinued,thelearnercanbesuretohaveencounteredthemostimportantverbsirrespectiveofwhenthel