中国学习者英语笔语中的词块能力研究.pptVIP

中国学习者英语笔语中的词块能力研究 许家金 中国外语教育研究中心 北京外国语大学 Lexical Chunks in Chinese Learners’ Writing (WECCL) Xu Jiajin Beijing Foreign Studies University chunk 词块 /fl/clweek/pujz/chunks.ppt Chunk/lexical bundle/n-gram/multi-word unit (expression)/formulaic sequence/prefabs Cluster (词丛) in WordSmith Why is lexical chunk important? Break language into units on a probabilistic basis Recurrent Psychologically real Why is lexical chunk important? Form-function composite Can we build the entire edifice of language solely on lexical chunks? If not, what are the bricks mortar of language? Lexical grammar Lexico-grammar Pattern grammar Construction grammar Collostruction etc Research question Are there any differences of chunk use between Chinese learners of English and NNS? What are some of the possible underlying reasons? Lexical chunk extraction in WS4 Step 01 Cluster in [Concord]: Focusing on individual words Lexical chunk extraction in WS4 Step 02 Cluster in [WordList] Indexing corpus data before computing cluster Lexical chunk extraction in WS4 Step 03 How to index a corpus? 1. [Settings-Index] First assign a name to the text(s) to be indexed 2. [Make/Add to Index] Then index the selected text(s) .tokens and .types pair Step 04 Extracting clusters in WordList [WordList-Open] *.tokens [Compute-Clusters] [File-Save]/[File-Save As] 2-8 word cluster list 多词词表 of WECCL and LOCNESS weccl index 2-word clusters … weccl index 6-word clusters locness index 2-word clusters … locness index 6-word clusters Step 05 keyword list generation to test for chunk over- and under-use significance [Keyword list] －[New] Reference corpus Chi-square test 卡方检验 Log likelihood 对数拟然检验 Keyness p value ≤ .05 类似研究 管博、郑树堂，2005，中国大学生英语口语Small Words 的研究，《外语教学与研究》第6期。 Other tools for extracting lexical chunks Kfngram William Fletcher √ Collocation Extraction C-ngram N-gram PhraseExtract Tom Cobb’s Page PIE: Phrase in English Fletcher A quick summary Chunk defined How to extract ch