初中学生英语语言能力调查研究外国语言学及应用语言学专业论文.docx

Abstract Linguistic competence refers to the internalization, understanding and recognition of a person’s grammatical knowledge and the ability how to correctly use sentence. It not only includes a person’s abilities to use grammar rules to construct correct sentences but also refers to the basic abilities of when, where, for what purpose, in what manner and with whom to use what kind of sentence. Its content includes the abilities of pronunciation recognition, vocabulary choice, grammar application, text organization and it is embodied in the language practice of listening, speaking, reading and writing. It is proposed that the overall objective of English course in the phase of basic education is to foster students’ comprehensive ability in applying language in the English Curriculum Standards. The comprehensive ability in applying language is formed on the base of the comprehensive development of students’ language knowledge, skills, affective factors, learning strategies and cultural consciousness. And it is further put forward that language knowledge and language skills are the base of the formation and development of the comprehensive ability in applying language, and it is regulated that Junior Three students’ language knowledge and language skills should reach the level of five. Whether does the overall level of Junior Three students’ linguistic competence in reality reach the requirements set by the English Curriculum Standards? How do teachers in classroom teaching cultivate students’ linguistic competence? How are the requirements advanced by the English Curriculum Standards embodied in the textbooks? This study has randomly selected 201 Junior Three students and 31 teachers from four junior middle schools in Baiyun District Guangzhou as samples. To find out students’ actual linguistic competence, it is conducted by a questionnaire survey, together with an interview, classroom observations and linguistic competence tests. And all the investigation result