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The purpose of the present study was to examine the nature of relative clause (hereafter, RC) acquisition of Chinese EFL learners with two distinctive levels of oral English proficiency based on the Spoken English Corpus of Chinese Learners (Wen, Wang, & Liang, 2009). 207 English-majored sophomore students’ oral narratives in a given topic were analyzed in term of overall oral proficiency, frequency distribution of RC, type of RC, and type of RC error. The results indicate that students with high oral proficiency were likely to be more productive and more accurate on RCs than those with low one. In addition, the six types of RCs they produced in the spoken context provided support for the RC accessibility hierarchies. Moreover, there were a close relationship of RC production to oral proficiency; more specifically, OS and OOGen RC structures were significant predictors of oral proficiency. Further the possible causes for RC errors were cross-linguistically explored. In alignment with that, pedagogical implications for English-L2 RC acquisition were discussed.

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I. Introduction
 II. Literature Review
  1. Theoretical Background on RC Acquisition
  2. A Comparison of RC Features between English and Chinese
  3. Previous Studies on English RC Acquisition of Chinese Learners
 III. Methods
  1. Data and Participants
  2. Rating and Coding
 IV. Results and Discussion
  1. Comparison of Overall and Correct RC Frequency
  2. Type of RC and Its Relationship to RC Processing Hierarchy Hypotheses
  3. The Relationship of RC Type to Oral Proficiency
  4. Cross-Linguistic Reasons for RC Error
 V. Conclusion and Implications
 References
 Appendix
 Abstract

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• Seunghyun Baek [ Chonnam National University ] First author
• Min Guo [ Xinyang Normal University ] Corresponding author

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820