口语连贯与大学英语口语教学

Discourse Coherence and Oral English Teaching

主要探讨话语标记语的使用对提高学生口语连贯性,从而促进英语口语交际能力的作用。话语特征和表达式的语言特征共同赋予话语标记以功能,而所有的话语标记都具有指别功能。这种指别功能为生成和理解语句提示语境坐标,实现增强话语连贯的作用。因此,外语教师应对话语标记语进行讲解,利用音频视频等语料范例和语料库资源组织教学,使学习者投入到真实的交际式的语言运用之中。

With an aim to promote college students＇ communication ability and spoken English, this paper mainly discusses the use of markers to enhance discourse coherence. It is the properties of discourse together with the linguistic properties of the expression that provide markers with their indexical functions. Markers propose more than one contextual coordinate at once and contribute to discourse coherence. Therefore, foreign language teachers should explain discourse markers in the classroom with the availability of audio and video resources and corpus data.