1. 研究目的与意义（文献综述包含参考文献）

1.introduction

articlesin english system includes the definite article the, indefinite articlea(n)，and the zero(ornull)article / ．grammatically，they are function words meaning to link or to joint and have littlelexical content. in the acquisition of english, however, article is one of themost difficult structural elements for efl learner; even the most advancednon-native speakers of english are included. when it comes to efl , an obviousissue is learners may be effected by their mother tongue, in which it lacksarticles, so do chinese english learners．

1.1 need for the study

2. 研究的基本内容、问题解决措施及方案

researchmethodology

2.1 researchquestions

inspiredby bickertons and huebners researches on article system，this study did theinvestigation of misuse of english article system by certain chinese efllearners by adopting huebners semantic classification for the english articlesystem．it attempts to provideanswers to the following research questions：