Usage Differences of because between Chinese English Learners and Native Speakers——A Comparative Study Based on Corpus

This study explores the usage differences of because between Chinese English learners and native speakers based on corpus. Results show:(1) the colligations of because in Chinese learner English and native speaker manifest similarity, but the usage of two patterns differ markedly;(2) the because-clauses in Chinese learner English precede the main sentence significantly more often than that in native English, which might be affected by language transfer.