中国非英语专业大学生介词AT搭配行为研究 ——语料库驱动的研究方法

论文摘要

近年来,词语搭配的重要性越来越引起人们的重视,学生和英语教师都意识到掌握不好词语搭配影响地道英语的表达。目前,对搭配的研究还主要集中在对名词、动词等实词的研究上,对介词的研究没有得到应有的重视,尤其对介词AT搭配的研究则更少。本研究运用中介语对比分析和错误分析的方法,通过对中外语料库中检索出的数据进行分析,旨在探索中国非英语专业大学生使用介词AT搭配的特点。研究表明:总体上,在AT搭配词的多样性方面,中国非英语专业大学生使用的AT搭配词与英语本族语者没有显著差别;但若从类联接和词义来看,中国非英语专业大学生使用的AT搭配词则显示出很多与本族语者不同之处;在以《大学英语课程教学要求》中的《大学英语参考词组表》为基础对学生应掌握的AT搭配进行研究时,从使用的准确性、多样性和典型性方面分析学生所实际使用的AT搭配,发现学生在使用某些AT搭配(如at first、at last、at the same time)时容易出现错误,而有些AT搭配(如at least、at one time、at sb’s disposal)学生使用不足或者几乎不用:本研究也发现了学生使用的一些词组表要求之外的AT搭配,例如At thebeginning(of)、arrive at、good at、stare at,并对其进行了分析和讨论。本次研究的一个突出发现是:《大学课程教学要求》中所列的AT搭配学生掌握得不好,只有2%的AT搭配使用频率与英语本族语者相同,其他98%则呈现不同程度的多用、误用、少用甚至不用的状况。这一发现对以后的大学英语教学具有一定的启示作用。

论文目录

• 摘要
• Abstract
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• 1.1 The Rationale of the Study
• 1.2 The Significance and Purpose of the Study
• 1.3 The Layout of the Thesis
• Chapter 2 Literature Review
• 2.1 The Notion of Collocation
• 2.1.1 Definitions of Collocation by Different Scholars
• 2.1.2 The Working Definition of Collocation in This Study
• 2.2 A Diachronic Review of Collocation Study
• 2.2.1 Collocation Studies in the 1950s
• 2.2.2 Collocation Studies in the 1960s
• 2.2.3 Collocation Studies in the 1970s
• 2.2.4 Collocation Studies from 1980s till Now
• 2.3 Empirical Studies on Preposition AT
• 2.3.1 Prepositional Meanings of AT
• 2.3.2 Corpus-based Description of AT
• 2.3.3 Studies on Chinese EFL Learners' AT Behavior
• 2.4 Contrastive Analysis
• 2.5 Error Analysis
• 2.6 Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis
• Chapter 3 Research Design
• 3.1 Research Questions
• 3.2 Corpus-driven Approach
• 3.3 Corpora Involved in This Study
• 3.3.1 The Learner Corpus
• 3.3.2 The Reference Corpus
• 3.4 The Integration of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
• 3.5 Instruments and Statistics
• 3.5.1 Instruments Employed in This Study
• 3.5.2 Statistics Involved in This Study
• 3.6 Procedure for Data Collection
• 3.6.1 Constructing Sub-CLEC and Sub-B&L Corpora
• 3.6.2 Extracting AT Significant Collocates and Collocations
• 3.6.3 Calculating Statistics
• Chapter 4 Results and Discussions
• 4.1 Overall Feature of AT Collocates
• 4.2 Characteristics of AT Collocations
• 4.3 Factors Affecting the Features of AT Collocational Behavior
• 4.3.1 Intralingual Factors
• 4.3.2 Interlingual Factors
• Chapter 5 Conclusion
• 5.1 Major Findings
• 5.2 Pedagogical Implications
• 5.3 Limitations of the Present Study and Suggestions for Further Study
• References
• Appendices
• Appendix 1 Significant At right collocates in Sub-CLEC
• Appendix 2 Significant at right collocates in Sub-CLEC
• Appendix 3 Significant at left collocates in Sub-CLEC
• Appendix 4 Significant At right collocates in Sub-B&L
• Appendix 5 Significant at right collocates in Sub-B&L
• Appendix 6 Significant at left collocates in Sub-B&L
• Appendix 7 Frequencies of some words in NNS and NS corpora
• Acknowledgements
• 研究生履历