A Composition corpus-based on Error Analysis for Chinese EFL Learners

This paper presents an analysis of learner corpora-a composition corpus. The analysis centres on the collocation and idiomatic abilities of the learners as observed from the data and their relation to the learners' ability in grammar. The purpose for doing so is to uncover some of the learners' weaknesses in their inter-language understandings, which is valuable information for designing instructional goals, methods, means, materials and activities.