词块法应用于高职生英语应用文写作教学研究.docVIP

词块法应用于高职生英语应用文写作教学研究 　　摘 要:随着经济和国际交流的快速发展,高职高专英语教学被赋予了以职业应用性为导向的新要求。英语应用文写作,作为该要求中必不可少的一部分,对于高职院校学生既是非常重要的学习内容同时又是英语学习中的难点。本论文中的实证研究试图验证在英语应用文写作课上运用Michael Lewis提出的词块法对于提高高职生英语应用文写作能力有积极影响的假设。实验结果表明在高职的英语应用文写作课上应用词块法并强调相关知识有助于提高学生的写作成绩并对其写作质量有积极影响。 　　关键词:词块法;高职学生;英语应用文写作;写作产出;实证研究 　　 　　一、The Preface 　　 　　It is an undeniable fact that teaching and learning English play an important role in vocational college education in China. Yet an awkward situation is that some students who have studied English for almost 10 years always feel at a loss of making English output. Although most of them have passed some vital exams, they still cannot write or speak English appropriately. Their articles in English sometimes seem ridiculous to native speakers and even lead to misunderstandings. That’s partly because that writing is the hardest one among the four basic skills in foreign language learning for a language learner to acquire. It is much more complex and demanding than other language skills for it involves not just memorizing vocabulary and understanding the meaning but also needs to internalize what one have learned and then produce them creatively. However, Basic Requirements of Vocational College English Curriculum in 2000 prescribed that English courses of vocational colleges should focus on cultivating students’ English practical competence in daily life and future working environments. Yet, the fact is that most vocational college students achieved lower marks in the College Entrance English Examination than undergraduate students due to some reasons, such as their deficient language knowledge or lack of learning interests and confidence in English. Since they labored to pass the Entrance Exam and hadn’t received enough training in practical English during their schooling years, their insufficient knowledge of practical English doesn’t meet the requirement. Consequently, their practical English writing ability is far from satisfactory. The emphasis being put on