英语专业学生笔语词汇发展研究

Lexical developing features in written English of English majors

本研究采用中国学习者英语口笔语语料库的笔语语料库子库作为样本,参照兰卡斯特大学的LANCAWAE语料库,从词汇多样性和词汇复杂度两方面分析了中国英语专业学生笔语词汇的发展,并将这一发展与其口语词汇发展,和国外学生笔语词汇发展作了比较,结果发现:我国英语专业学生笔语词汇发展不是一个持续上升过程,这个发展轨迹与口语词汇不同;我国英语专业学生在笔语词汇多样性和词汇复杂度两个指标上,均低于国外非本族语学生和本族语学生。

Taking WECCL sub-corpus of SWECCL corpus as samples, and LANCAWAE corpus as reference, this paper analyzes the written English developing trend of English majors in China. Lexical variation and vocabulary sophistication are taken as measure indexes. Results show that the trend of written English does not go up continually, which is different form spoken English, and the less frequency can be found in Chinese students than that of foreign bilingual and native-spoken students in both indexes.