ABSTRACT
Li Qi’s investigation of English major students in the North-eastern Normal University revealed that although the participants possessed solid grammatical knowledge, they lacked high level of accuracy and native-like appropriateness of actual use in given contexts (23). Kong Yan’s error analysis of Chinese students’ acquisition of English passive voice showed that for English learners of intermediate and advanced levels, despite lower error rates in passive structure, the error rates in use, especially in discourse, are still high (43).
