语言水平和词频对中国英语学习者程式语心理表征影响-the influence of language level and word frequency on the psychological representation of chinese english learners formulaic language.docxVIP

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSI am deeply grateful to those who have helped and supported me, without their help, my thesis would not have been completed.Firstly, I want to express my deepest gratitude to my supervisor Professor Jia Guanjie, who has given me many enlightening comments and valuable advice, including collecting materials, analyzing data, designing experiments and enriching contents. Moreover, his great spirit and insightful ideas inspired and encouraged me in the process, which can benefit me a lot. Without his help, many difficulties would not have been overcome and the thesis would not have been accomplished.Secondly, my appreciation goes to my senior classmates, who gave me advice and suggestion patiently whenever I was trapped into difficulties. With their help, I never felt lonely. Especially, I want to thank my classmate Shao Lin, who shares the same supervisor with me. She has helped me a lot. In addition, I also want to thank my roommates, Chen Binbin and Chen Qiqun, who accompanied me for most part of my spare time.Finally, I want to thank my senior schoolmates Kang Beibei and Wang Jinxia, whose supervisor is also Professor Jia Guanjie, they gave me a lot of advice on the writing of this thesis, so I want to give the special gratitude to them.摘 要“程式语”也叫“词块”，是指以整体形式存储在大脑中、可以整体或稍作 改动，然后作为预制组块供说话人提取并使用的一串词，是兼具词汇和语法特征 的语言结构。程式语在英语学习中具有重要作用。实证研究发现，程式语可以提 高学习者语言的流利程度，增加语言的地道性，同时增加学习者对目标语的了解， 从而激发语言学习兴趣。程式语的研究受到国内外学者越来越广泛的关注，但是 当前国内对于第二语言程式语的研究还比较少，多数研究以英语本族语者为研究 对象，以英语为外语的中国学习者为研究对象的研究比较少。本研究以中国英语专业的学习者为研究对象，旨在研究程式语的频率和受试 者的语言水平是否影响程式语的提取。作者选取苏州某大学 30 名英语专业大一 新生作为低水平组，30 名英语专业研究生作为高水平组进行研究。作者以 24 个 含有 of 的程式语作为研究材料，将其分别嵌入 24 个例句中，作为完形填空的测 试题目，受试者的任务为填入自己认为合适的 of 短语；之后，受试者会继续完 成短语的频率选择问卷，对 24 个 of 短语的频率在低频、中频、较高频和高频四 个选项范围内进行选择。本研究的研究问题如下：1、中国英语学习者的二语水平是否影响程式语的心理表征？如果有影响， 不同水平的二语学习者程式语心理表征有何不同？2、程式语的使用频率影响程式语的心理表征吗？如果有影响，不同词频对 程式语的心理表征有多大程度的影响？主要的研究结果概括如下： 第一、中国英语学习者的二语水平影响程式语的心理表征；表现在高水平组学习者程式语心理表征的整体性高于低水平组学习者；完形填空测试得分与语言 水平之间的相关系数值为 0，表明语言水平与程式语的正确率密切相关。因此， 随着