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Recent years, interdisciplinary studies on English writing have become more and more prevalent, which is especially indicated by corpus-based studies, springing up. As the theoretical foundation, the Delexicalization Theory, which is a reasonably common language phenomenon, provides a more extensive perspective for English writing. According to the real linguistic data of EFL learners (The CET4 essays of four different classes), it can be easily found that students tend to use the word “thing”—considered to be one of the frequently-used delexcialized words, to express their opinions by means of the analysis of AntConc. However, the results indicate that Chinese non-English majors are inclined to overuse the word. Meanwhile, there are a large amount of inappropriate use of the word “thing” such as redundancy, substitution, collocation and semantic errors. Moreover, the study attempts to summarize the cause that the overuse may be attributed to improper writing strategies, and the effect of fossilization of interlanguage in order to provide some implications for English teaching promotion.

Corpus-based Study on the Use of Delexicalized Word “Thing” by Non-English Majors in L2 Writing