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An Empirical Study of Chinese English Learners’ Chunk Competence

Author: DiaoLinLin
Tutor: ZuoJianZhong
School: PLA Foreign Languages ??Institute
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Professional English Chunk Language learners Language proficiency Teachability Spearman Statistical procedures Linguistic Studies Language skills Output capacity
CLC: H319.3
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2004
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Abstract

Nearly 20 years of linguistic research, especially in corpus linguistics studies have shown that, the fixed combinations there are a lot of words in natural language and semi-fixed combination. Many researchers have realized that \often do not rely solely on the grammar rules and words to build sentences and discourse. Based on the above understanding, the concept of \Many linguists from prefabricated language (prefabrication) Mountain hair that word block as the structural units in the mental lexicon, usually to store or extract as a whole, thus virtually reducing the burden of language processing and output, the language communication more efficient, will Lili effective. For the second language acquisition due to the The word block integration of the semantics, syntax, and pragmatics relationship between the various components, it is seen as an important way of language learners and establish the rules of grammar, and at the same time can be effectively promoted The depth and breadth of vocabulary knowledge development. Therefore, from the point of view of the theory, pay attention and learn the word block is likely to help to overcome the drawbacks of traditional foreign language teaching, language learners live authentic language use and fluency breakthrough. Previous studies Chunk ability as language ability important indicators or part of, and to promote the introduction of second language (or foreign language) teaching and to give enough attention. However, due to the current research is mainly theoretical exploration, and English learners in China as the object of study is also unusual, special needs empirical research to further validate and rich word block the ability of research and exploration. This paper reports on an empirical study by the English Majors in China, aimed to explore the Chunk ability and language skills, as well as with the relationship of the individual language skills through the investigation of a certain size, and reveal the the English majors word block the ability the status quo; experiment in the form of the word blocks can teach their teaching methods. In this study, the survey part the word block the ability of the test volume corpus-based design to get the students English word block the ability to identify and output capacity data and select a professional English eight systems measured MET-8 grades as the overall level in English and ability indicators, and social sciences statistical package An EmPirieal the Study ofChinese the English Learners'Chunk ComPetenee (SPSS.ll.5) the collected data processing. The main statistical procedures such as Bu: 1. The word block the ability to identify subjects and outputs descriptive statistics. 2 T inspection visits i Division block ability test scores and the relationship of the different grades (English professional first grade, fourth grade), to explore the relationship of the word block ability and language proficiency. At the same time the results of the fourth grade eight uniform test results with their professional Spearman rank correlation test, further confirmation the word block whether related to the level of ability with the language as well as the degree of correlation. To professional eight uniform test results as a reference to a word using the Spearman rank correlation test visits Chunk capacity and various language skills (listening, reading, writing, translation ability) correlation. Test the performance of a specific qualitative and quantitative analysis, explore the lack of Chinese English learners to master and apply the word block, and summarize the strategy and performance characteristics when they use the word block. The experimental part of this study, mainly through short-term training to improve test Chunk awareness can be taught to observe the word block, the resulting data is still selected SPSS 11.5 for processing. Major statistical procedures such as a: 1. Visits Chunk acquisition memory to maintain a degree. 2. ANOVA this statistic means visits compared the experimental group and the control group in the word on the block acquisition performance, explore the confounding factors. 3. the same selection of ANOVA analysis of contrast within the experimental group, to explore the impact of language proficiency word block acquisition. above statistics and analysis, the following conclusions: 1. the Chunk ability language ability and individual language skills (reading, writing, translation capability) showed a significant positive correlation. verify previous theoretical assumptions, that word block capacity is an important indicator of language ability or part. the Anglo-versed learners word block capacity overall is still relatively lacking . regardless of the fourth-grade English in the first grade students ability to master the word block did not reach the expected standards. Executive summary 3. term block teachability, that we can be the introduction of the current teaching of English by Professor process to improve students 'word block, but differs from traditional teaching methods only for word article is also based on this study proved inspired to improve the students' awareness of lexical chunks can effectively contribute to the the word block the acquisition. experiments reflect on The current English teaching some of his views, it is recommended that expand to show the concept of the traditional vocabulary, this important part of it including the word block, and the word block the introduction of English teaching grammar and vocabulary combine to help China more fluent English learners, more authentic use of English, and effectively improve the level of their language. these recommendations provide specific teaching methods and steps to help the actual teaching. article is divided into seven chapters. Chapter elaborated the study of the origin, methods, and research design. conduct a more comprehensive introduction to Chapter II of previous studies of word blocks and proposed working definition of the word block. third chapter describes in detail the research methods and processes, including subjects, research questions, test design, experimental preparation and experimental procedures. chapters IV and V of this article focuses on the analysis and discussion of the data obtained in the investigation and experiments were carried out, and come to the main findings the study of English teaching and teaching strategies based on the experimental results are discussed and conclusions Chapter VI Chapter VII summarizes the results of this study, to explore its theoretical and practical significance, and pointed out that the study The lack of well made recommendations for further study in the future. research on word block the main contribution of the research is to: l) for?

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