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A Study of Lexical Chunks in English Writing of Non-English Majors

Author: JiangZuoZuo
Tutor: XiaoYan
School: Chongqing Normal University
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Chunk Non - English Majors English Writing
CLC: H319
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract

Writing the four basic language skills in English, one can more objectively reflect the language ability of students to apply. However, teachers and students have put a lot of effort, the effect is far from satisfactory. Even if the student has mastered a certain vocabulary, but still can not improve their writing, so it is necessary to find an effective way to improve students' English writing ability. In recent years, the word block teaching English Language Teaching concern word block integration of syntax, semantics, and context, has the advantage of the whole extracted. It can alleviate the pressure of the brain to process information in the process of writing, foreign language learners while helping to reduce the error caused by the Negative Transfer thereby improve language fluency, the authentic sexual as well as enhance the ability of the organization article. Since the word block play such an important role in English learning, we are necessary to conduct a series of research on the word block. However, most of the scholars are staying at the theoretical level, rarely set foot in empirical research. Therefore the article mainly relying Nattinger Decarrico theoretical score essay and low-scoring essay a comparative study to answer the following questions: whether the word number of blocks in the score composition than more than in the low-scoring essay? Chunks Are there any difficulties in the use and whether it is related to the quality of students' writing? high group and low group what kind of word blocks with the most? use the word block? ultimately derived word block is to improve the English writing of non-English majors capacity. The authors selected from Chongqing Normal two non-English major classes of 95 students as research subjects, asking them to write a 150 words about the English essay in 40 minutes or less, and then let the experienced teachers to score their essay to 9 is divided into sector selected from a score of 30 essay and 30 low-scoring essay. Score composition and low-scoring essay word block uses a number of statistics, the authors found the score composition Chunk is much higher than the number of low-scoring essay that block the use of the word and the quality of students' writing is closely Contact. Classified according the Nattinger Decarrico Chunk Chunk of groups using the type of packet, phrases hedges in promoting students' writing ability play the biggest role, followed by a sentence framework, multi-word vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. style. At the same time, we also found that the high group and low group are very different from the use of the word block. The use of the word in the low packet writing block type less stereotyped, this group of students to use the word block are also more likely to make mistakes; diverse high packet using the word block types, relatively few mistakes. Lexical chunks in English Writing plays an important role, the authors suggest that teachers will be the Chunk teaching based teaching methods into the teaching of English writing future design vocabulary exercises word block units at the same time, and effectively improve non-English majors in English writing skills.

A Study of Lexical Chunks in English Writing of Non-English Majors

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