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CHUNK COMPETENCE, CHUNK LEARNING STRATEGY AND LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY By Zhang Jiejun Under the supervision of Dr. Hu Jian A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the School of Foreign Studies Anhui University April 2009 i i Acknowledgements My deepest feelings of gratitude and indebtedness are to my supervisor, Dr. HuJian, for her tireless and careful reading through each chapter of my dissertation, for her insightful direction and enlightening suggestions, and for her constant encouragement. Without her patient instructions, the completion of the thesis would have been impossible. I am also grateful to all the teachers who have taught me in the School of Foreign Studies of AnHui University. They have enlightened me with their profound knowledge and wonderful lectures. Special thanks are extended to Prof. Hua Quankun, Prof. Zhu Yue, Prof. Zhou Fangzhu, Prof. Zhang Ming, Prof. Zhu Xiaomei, Dr. Zhang Hongxia and Dr. Yang Ling. My thanks also go to the students from the School of Materials and Chemical Engineering at Anhui University of Architecture, who have worked as my subjects and have cooperated with me very well. I am also indebted to my colleagues and classmates for their support and sharing their academic opinions. Finally, I would like to express my heart-felt gratitude to my family who have been supporting me and give me constant encouragement for their love and help in daily life. ii ii Abstract Researches in linguistics show that a large number of fixed and semi-fixed structures exist in natural language. Many researchers have realized the fact that language users do not rely solely on grammatical rules and words to construct sentences and discourses. “Lexical chunk” has gained increasing attention from linguists and more and more researchers have come to realize the importance of lexical chunks in foreign language teaching. Theoretically speaking, study on chunks can contribute to foreign language te