词块学习对语言产出的影响的实证性分析-an empirical analysis of the influence of lexical chunk learning on language output.docxVIP

三峡大学硕士学位论文三峡大学硕士学位论文 PAGE IV PAGE IVAbstractResearchers and instructors have been interested in lexical chunks for the past four decades. Many studies indicate that lexical chunks are ubiquitous in language, i.e. language, in both written and spoken forms, consists of a great number of lexical chunks. The advent of corpus linguistics makes this possible. At the same time, these studies illustrate that lexical chunks play an important role in language and language learning. A growing number of studies thus concentrate on the different use of lexical chunks between native speakers and L2 learners, and on the distinct use of lexical chunks in different disciplines. Studies of lexical chunks in second language acquisition (SLA) demonstrate that lexical chunks promote language fluency since they lessen the cognitive decoding and encoding processing. However, empirical investigations into the acquisition of lexical chunks in L2 are relatively scarce. The existing investigations mainly focus on the learning of certain target lexical chunks. In fact, only three recent attempts have been made to introduce lexical chunks into the teaching programme, i.e. Nattinger and DeCarrico (1992), Lewis (1993), and Willis (1990). These studies find that L2 learners are deficient in collocation knowledge.The present study was designed to decide 1) can a series of awareness-raising activities help learners add lexical chunks to their linguistic repertoire, and if so, to what extent? 2) can the properly used lexical chunks help learners to come across as more proficient learners regarding writing, and if so, to what extent? The empirical study lasted for four weeks with altogether 67 participants (33 in the experimental group and 34in the control group). The author was in charge of the course of An Integrated English Course for both the experimental group and the control group during the experiment. All the learners in both groups used the same textbook, and the curriculum and course plans