基于词块意识培养的英语写作能力实证分析-an empirical analysis of english writing ability based on the cultivation of lexical chunk awareness.docxVIP

Chapter1 IntroductionChapter1IntroductionThe Background of the ResearchEnglishwriting,theonemostdifficulttoimproveamongthefourbasiclanguage skills,objectivelyreflectsstudents’abilityoflanguageapplication.SinceEnglishwriting hasbeengivenemphasisdueinthenationalcollegeEnglishsyllabusandexaminations, bothteachersandstudentshavebeendevotingthemselvesmorethanevertotheEnglish course.Unfortunately,theresultsproveunsatisfactory.StatisticsinCollegeEnglishTest46showthatalthoughstudents’overallperformanceinthetestshasatendencyof improving,theirwritingproficiencyisfarfromsatisfactory(QiYan,2005).Theauthor,after workingasanEnglishteacherforseveralyears,findsthatmanystudents’communication skillsremainverypooralthoughtheyhavepassedBand-4andevenBand-6CollegeEnglish Test,indicatingtheyarebetterinlanguageinputtingthanoutputtingasclearlyshownin theirwritings.Theauthoralsofindsthatthemostseriousproblemwithstudents’English compositionsistheuseofChinese-styleEnglish,whichisduetotheinfluenceoftheir mothertongue.Therearesomeotherproblemsaswell,suchasmisuseofwords,lackof coherence,inadequatecontentandlinguistictediousness.Theauthorbelievesthatoneofthemanyreasonsfortheaboveproblemsislimited vocabulary,butthein-depthreasonisstudents’incompetenceofexpressingtheirideas correctlyandclearlyinspiteofagoodmemoryofenoughvocabulary.Ofcourse,thereare someotherreasonslikelackoftheauthenticEnglish-usingenvironment,overemphasison theexplanationandmemoryofandnegligenceoftheapplicationofvocabulary.Asaresult, thelinguisticinformationthatstudentscanunderstandismorethantheinformationtheycan produce,andmostofthemmerelyfillsomeofthewordsintheirmemoryintocompositions in the Chinese way of thinking to make up sentences followingcertain grammatical rules.Then,whatkindofteachingmethodshouldbetakentoimproveeffectivelystudents’ Englishwritingskills?Manyresearchachievementsinthefieldsoflinguistics,pragmatics, cognitivelinguistics,psycholinguisticsandsecondlanguageacquisitionstudy,aswellas otherrelateddisciplines,havel