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