Characteristics of Pronoun “Who and Its Concordance” in Chinese College Students’ English Narrative Writing from the Perspective of Corpus-Based Method - A Case Study of Series of Compositions of “The Most Unforgettable Person I Ever Know”

Writing is one of productive skills and a way conveying information considered to be the most complex challenging skill for EFL English learners acquire, hence many studies have been conducted on revelation characteristic writings how improve them. Among them, pronoun study has attracted extensive interest become hot spot in second language acquisition contrastive linguistics. Taking series compositions “The unforgettable person I ever know” as subject, this devoted reveal characteristics “who its concordance” Chinese college students` narrative writing from perspective corpus-based method. Result analysis 630 students 3 colleges past 6 years shows: 1) As whole, WIC can regarded common words but distribution individual word relatively disproportionate-“who” attracts far more attention while other 4 attract little or no attention. 2) In terms sentence type, 5 types imbalance with too use adverbial clause much attributive clauses. addition, are used utilizing simple identical structure some them highly repetitive. 3) The frequency student shows that majority numbers formed habit using depict interpersonal relationship their unbalanced too. 4) clusters, preference “who” relative above all. And clusters simple. 5) To sum up, employ consciously writing, usages confined structures. Therefore, learner`s comprehensive competence integrated employment should improved.