工作记忆容量对英语专业学生英语书面产出影响研究.pdfVIP

Acknowledgment During the whole process of my thesis composing, I should show thankfulness to all the people who have helped me. First of all, I want to express the greatest gratitude to my supervisor, Professor Wu. From the topics choosing to the final revising of my thesis, she has given me a great number of precious advices, meaningful comments, all of which have made great contributions toward the completion of the thesis. Besides, I should express the sincere thanks to all the teachers who teach me in field of literature and research instruments. Among them, Professor Bai has done me a great favor to teach me the methods of data analysis. And in addition, during the process of my thesis writing, my family and my friends have been always encouraging me and providing the related support. i Abstract Working memory is a construct belonging to cognitive psychology. Working memory can store information and process information simultaneously. In recent years, working memory has attracted more and more attentions and has become a focus in applied linguistics. By now, many studies have been done about the effect of working memory on sentence comprehension, reading comprehension or listening comprehension. However, there are very few studies concerning the relationship between working memory and written language production. With theories of working memory and writing processes, the thesis aims at studying the relationship between working memory capacity and written language performance of Chinese English majors in University. The study intends to answer two research questions. On one hand, it intends to find out if students? working memory capacity affects their English written production?s accuracy, fluency, and complexity, and if it d