A Review and Expectation of the Studies of Articles in China
For the last 25 years,studies on articles have transformed from qualitative research to quantitative research and from holistic research to local research.The main researches are as follows: 1) theoretical research on the functions and uses of articles at the early stage;2) more detailed research at the second stage especially on zero articles and article translation;3) corpus-based researches on learners' acquisition and misuse of articles in a passage more recently.Review of domestic article researches is supposed to provide a better direction for research and teaching.