词组注释方式和中国外语学习者表达的关系的研究.pdfVIP

ABSTRACT This study mainly focuses on the relationship among different annotating ways of lexical phrases and Chinese EFL learners’ interpretation quality of lexical phrases. The purpose is to see which annotating way is better for a high quality language output, further more, the different lexical phrase types’ effect on the interpretation quality. This is an empirical study with theoretical support in psycholinguistics and second language acquisition. In the literature review section, lexical phrases definition, the importance of lexical phrases are presented; while mental lexicon model by Jean Aitchison (1987: 195) and logogen model by Garman Michael (1990: 277-278) reveals the close relationship among cognitive system 、semantic evidence and logogen system, which gives theoretical evidence for this empirical study. Based on the theoretical framework, the empirical study which examines 18 valid lexical phrases was performed on 76 intermediate EFL learners (from three parallel classes) for three times. The Vocabulary Level Test (VLT) and Lexical Phrase Pre-test were included before the main contrastive test to guarantee the effectiveness of this study. The data gained from all the subjects were analyzed quantitatively by SPSS tools. The findings of the study are summarized as follows: Firstly, Lexical phrases with no annotation (non-annotating way is also listed as one of the annotating ways for convenience and consistency) have the lowest language output quality for Chinese EFL learners. Secondly, lexical phrases with annotation of English explanations and English sentence examples have better language output quality; they have similar language output