深圳大学学科英语开题报告确定版 (1).pptVIP

AQualitativeAnalysisonThematicProgressionFeaturesofEnglishMajors’ExpositoryEssaysBasedonSWECCL2.0

基于SWECCL2.0的中国英语专业大学生说明文

主位推进特征定性研究08英语语言文学王华娟

AstheimprovementofEnglishteachinginChina,listening,speaking,reading,writingarementionedasthefourbasicskills.Amongthefourskills,writingisoneofthemostimportantmeansofcommunication,andhasbeenplayingasignificantroleinconveyingpeople’sideasandfeelings.AsurveyconductedinShanghaiearlyin1983onagroupofex-graduatesabouttheirfeelingoftheusefulnessofEnglishwritingindicatesthatwritinginEnglishisverynecessaryintheirday-to-daywork.Theyneeditinbusinessletterstoforeignclientsorwritingacademicabstractsandessaysforinternationalconferencesandpublications(Wang,1992).

However,itisalsoregardedasthemostdifficultpartforthelearners.EventhesestudentswhohaveagoodmasterofvocabularyandgrammarstillhavemanyproblemsinEnglishwritingsuchaslackingofcohesiondeviceanddiscoursecoherence(LǚYan,2009).AlthoughChineseeducatorshavebeinginvolvedintheimprovementofwritingteachingmethodology,itisnoticedthatinthesemethodologiestheprincipalunitisthesentence,anditisthesentence,ratherthanthetextasawhole,thathasreceivedtheprimaryfocusofstudy(Johns,1984).

AlongwiththedevelopmentandpopularizationoffunctionalgrammarinChina,researchonEnglishwritingonthebaseofdiscourseanalysisisbeinggivenmuchmoreconcernthanbefore(QinWen,2007;WeiLi,2009;KangMa,2008).As“thefunctionofadiscourseisasemanticconceptwhichisembodiedbythecombinationofCohesion,InformationStructureandThematicStructure”(HuangHuang,2009)andthat“Thematicanalysiscanbeofusetoteacherstolaythefoundationsforaprincipledapproachtothediscourse-basedsyllabusandawarenessofthematicorganizationcanbeofvaluetolearnersinhelpingthemtosh