基于英语搭配教学一致性的实证研究(IJEME-V1-N4-8).pdfVIP

I.J. Education and Management Engineering 2011, 4, 46-52 Published Online October 2011 in MECS () DOI: 10.5815/ijeme.2011.04.08 A vailable online at / ijeme An Empirical Study on Concordance-based English Collocation Teaching a b Shan Liu , Zhinan Ma a College of Foreign Languages , Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan, China b School of Electronics Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China Abstract The wide use of computer has led to the reform in modern English teaching approach. Computer concordance, a new multicontext presentation mode, provides a new way for collocation teaching. This study explores if there is any difference between on-line concordancer teaching approach, concordance-based explicit teaching approach and traditional deductive approach on college students’ collocation use and retention. The findings provide empirical support for concordance-based explicit teaching approach ’s superiority to other approaches in promoting the immediate use and long-term retention of target collocations, which is measured by immediate and delayed test. Teachers are well-advised to pick up the typical concordance lines deliberately, annotate difficult words when necessary before handing out worksheets to learners. Index Terms: Corpus; concordance;collocation; teaching approach © 2011 Published by MECS Publisher. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of the International Conference on E-Business System and Education Technology 1.Introduction With the widely use of computer, corpus and concordance have become applied to aid foreign language teaching. Corpus refers to a collection